If I had a MONSTER burn pile last year

[XemaSab]

do I want to plant this year's veggies on the burned spot or NOT on the burned spot? :shrug:

[Webster Green]

1. I would suggest a pH test on that area

All the ashes may have rendered the soil in that area more alkaline.

The appropriate range for almost all plants is slightly acid - pH 5.5 to 6.5 or so. Very few can tolerate a pH past 8, which is fairly alkaline.

[XemaSab]

2. Soil pH?

That's just superstition.

[Webster Green]

3. Hmmm..

Okay then. :silly:

[hatrack]

4. Yeah, those elitist "scientists" don't REALLY know!!!

Why should we believe the claims of this secretive cabal of liberal empiricists?!?!?

[XemaSab]

6. Yeah, I mean what the hell does

Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Mollic Xerofluvent mean, anyway?

It's just gobbledegook to confuse ordinary Americans.

And the whole "occurs on flood plains" thing?

There hasn't been a flood here since 1945. I don't know what the hell this commie NRCS is trying to pull.

http://www2.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/osd/dat/R/REIFF.html

[Webster Green]

11. LOL!

Well, now that I have your exact location, I can come out and have a look, and we'll go from there.

See you in the morning! :P

[hunter]

5. You didn't save the ashes to make laundry soap?

tsk tsk.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8304654/Soapmaking-How-To-Make-Soap

You deserve whatever you get.

[XemaSab]

7. It's not really ashes

It's more like half-burned chunks of wood. :P

[backwoodsbob]

8. you didn't save your half burned chunks of wood

to make laundry soap?


:hide:

[kestrel91316]

13. Till those half-burned chunks of wood under. That's TERRA PRETA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta

[madokie]

9. Yes on the burn spot

without a doubt.

[AlecBGreen]

10. depends

If grass or weeds arent growing there, no. If its green, yes, plant it.

[Greyskye]

12. Half on, half off.

Then compare and contrast. We'll be waiting for your report in the fall. :hi: