Wood ash can be used on your lawn, but with a few cautions. Turfgrass does best in soil that is slightly acidic (pH 6.3-6.8). Wood ash is alkaline, so if your soil is basic (pH above 7) then you don't want to raise the soil pH by using wood ash. Another issue is spreading wood ash. Due to it's fine consistency is can be very difficult to spread it evenly on the lawn. If you find a good way to spread wood ash evenly and your soil is acidic then wood ash would help with the pH and it contains potassium and other micronutrients. It's pH effect is not as dramatic as lime, roughly half as effective by weight, so overapplication is probably not an issue, but avoid having piles of it on the ground as that can lead to areas of high pH.

I love it! You can see, it's build by wood of trees and now being consumed by trees! Konrad

Not many people use an outhouse, these days ... well, in our countries, anyway. But some have been "out to lunch" for some time. ole joyful

Hi Paula PA, A three-holer, maybe ... for a little more separation? ole joyful P.S. I never remember being without power on our farm - we called it "hydro" in Ontario ... 'cause it was generated from turbines at the foot of Niagara Falls. We had a pump at a sink in the pantry, that pulled water from a cistern for washing. A well in the yard from which they pumped water into a pail that sat in the pantry, with a dipper sitting on the surface ... that everyone used. The well needed cleaning and Dad was afraid to climb down into it for fear that he'd get a brick or a stone on his head. Drilled a well in '36 when I was 7 and we had cold water on tap from then on - but not a flush toilet. When I was 17 in '46 we moved to a sharecropper farm on the Prairies 9 miles out of capital city of Saskatchewan, no electricity (neighbours had it, but landlord didn't pay for 1.5 mile service line ... till he retired and moved out there!), had to haul drinking water until Dad bought his own farm. I never had flush toilet or hot water on tap till I went to Univ. in fall of '47. Great neighbours. After a Junior Parliament on first Christmas holidays there, when we had the worst snow and blow for many years, when I walked 4 miles to home carrying suitcase just at New Year when temp. about 20 degrees below zero, facing a light wind, stopped at last house 2 miles from our place. No one home, I stood in back porch for a while to warm up before heading home. Later they gave me the devil for not going into their house ... and there was no way that I was going to go into their house with no neighbours there: didn't even try the door to have found it unlocked! Told me not to make such a walk again, either, for there was a road with fences for a mile north of their house to a rail crossing, then only a graded road, with telephone poles but no fence for a half mile, then just an earth road with telephone poles for a half mile to our house ... if the wind had risen, to blow snow around anough for me to lose my bearings ... being able to see the phone poles and line would be my only guide for that last mile. Getting lost on the flat prairie in a snowstorm at 20 degrees below is not a pleasant situation to be in. o j