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Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>:
> Yes I haul >half of our ash back to the woods (some gets
> scattered on the lawn/driveway to melt snow/feed grass/trees). I
> have been spreading ash now for 31 years, usually the year's supply
> in portions of various apparently impoverished areas but have yet to
> see any obvious responses. My soil is a loam so, where there is
> reasonable depth, it is capable of storing a good stock of mineral
> nutrients. Of course if growth/vigor is limited by poor drainage or
> shallow bedrock then ash application would have no effect.
* maybe you're not seeing enhanced growth because you're just keeping
up with the nutrients removed in the firewood.
Here's an account of Pieter Trip's fertilization of his woods -
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/02/beneath-hemlocks-oil-on-canvas-5-x-7-in.html - he gets the full benefit from the applied fertilizer because he doesn't remove firewood, and doesn't seem to understand why some of us need/choose
to.
He has written a book about his work with his forest -
http://www.lulu.com/ca/en/shop/pieter-trip/growing-great-trees-a-practical-guide-to-growing-big-healthy-trees/paperback/product-5724181.html
fred.
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> A drafty outhouse stocked usually with an old Eaton's catalogue
> and cleaned yearly was standard practice at home until I went to
> college. And at School until I went to High School, except there one
> had to take a sheet of note paper when applicable. It is likely the
> most environmentally friendly way to deal with human waste but is
> not a human friendly way to void waste, especially in cold, windy
> weather.
>
> So I don't find the outhouse approach attractive and Kentville
> probably has a bylaw against it, but If people were not so silly and
> if necessary precautions were taken to exclude pollutants and avoid
> contamination of waterways then woodland would by an obvious target
> for disposal of so called biosolids.
>
> Biology is made possible by conservation and recycling of mineral
> nutrients. It is absolute folly for humans to imagine that it is not
> only OK to break the cycle but necessary for yada, yada, yada
> reasons. Alas--- you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it
> drink.
>
> Yt, DW
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Leave those old snags up!
>
>
>> Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>:
>>
>>> Pileated also like Dogwood fruit and I watched one strip a shrub,
>>> upside down again, while I ate lunch.
>>
>> * this summer we saw a Pileated emulating Audubon's painting by
>> feeding on treetop Grapes.
>>
>>> The wood should of course be cut selectively, with an eye to
>>> giving healthy long-lived trees adequate room and encouraging a
>>> wide diversity of tree and shrub species. But burning wood cut in
>>> any way is a step in the right direction.
>>
>> * and be sure the ash gets back into the woods to provide the
>> nutrients to sustain the growth of the trees. Better, use the ashes
>> to embed your feces in a shallow-hole outhouse, and take the
>> deposit out into the woods.
>>
>> fred.
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>> Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
>> Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
>> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
>> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
>> South Nation Basin Art & Science Book
>> http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm
>> RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
>> on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
>> (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
South Nation Basin Art & Science Book
http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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