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Ashes and asparagus

13 years ago

My DH cleaned out the wood stove and dumped it on top of about 4" of leaves I dumped on the asparagus bed this week.
It's about a 5 YO asparagus bed, fairly successful, in a raised bed filled with good soil and topped with home grown compost and leaves each year.
My extention office doesn't offer soil testing and every raised bed has been filled with different materials, so it would be very expensive to test them all.
Do you think I should try to rake the top layer of leaves and most of the ashes off before it starts raining, or just let it be?
The soil beneath the raised beds is heavy clay, but filled with lovely worms, so probably quite fertile. Nancy

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