Wood chips are an easy and affordable way to give your garden a boost. They're commonly used as mulch to suppress weeds, improve water retention, and reduce soil erosion. Beyond mulch, wood chips ...

Adapting this plan for building garden soil by using a wood mulch — such as wood chips, sawdust or other woody residues — is a strategy that promises huge, long-term returns.

Decomposing wood mulch enriches the soil. Rock and bark mulches do not. Their purpose is primarily to add beauty and reduce weed problems. Any wood mulch, not bark mulch, works well around fruit ...

As a fertilizer, wood ash potash (K) runs about 7% to 10%. Phosphorus is about 1 1/2 %. Nitrogen, another major nutrient, is released as a gas during combustion so it is no longer present in ashes.

Real Estate News Wood ash from fireplaces can enrich garden soil. Here’s how. Wood ash contains calcium, magnesium, and potassium among a dozen or more important nutrients.

Wood ash can be used sparingly in gardens, spread thinly over lawns and stirred thoroughly into compost piles. Lawns needing lime and potassium benefit from wood ash — 10 to 15 pounds per 1,000 ...

The tall delphinium hybrids shown here at a Royal Horticultural Society trial garden in England are coveted by gardeners around the world because the flowers can be intensely blue, a rare shade in ...

But if applied improperly, the ash can be caustic.

The Sampson Flat bushfire burned uncontrolled for more than four days and scorched more than 12,000 hectares of the Adelaide Hills, destroying dozens of homes, sheds and business premises.

To insulate the roots of your plants, add a 2—to 3-inch layer over the soil. Compost. Wood chips are carbon-rich, making them a great material to use in compost.