By Barbara Brown A wood burning fireplace or wood stove is a welcome sight in the cold winter months. Now, what do we do with all the ashes? Many gardeners recommend spreading them in the garden beds.

Wood ash can be a valuable addition to your garden soil, bringing with it essential nutrients like potassium and phosphorus. In fact, ashes from your wood-burning fireplace can improve your garden’s ...

Find out if wood ash is good for the garden and how to use it effectively to fertilize plants. While the ash from wildfires can help nourish new growth, is wood ash good for the garden? Yes, the ashes ...

Wood ashes can be a valuable resource for amending garden soil. Anyone using a fireplace or wood stove knows that a large amount of wood ashes can accumulate over a heating season. When applied under ...

It’s that time of year. With winter come nights with clear, cold skies, often accompanied by the smoke and aroma from wood-burning fireplaces. Many folks enjoy a roaring wood fire and the warmth, ...

My mother and both my grandmothers used a wood-fired stove for cooking. I often had the chore of cutting and splitting the firewood and stacking it on the porch near the kitchen door where it was kept ...

Relaxing hours spent by the wintertime fire produce a lot of wood ash; should you put those ashes in your garden this spring? File photo The Kansas City Star When it comes to improving the soil, local ...