Hey mountain buddies!

Congrats Roger on those fish - your pond size, geographical location and elevation make these all that more impressive!

I have excessive wood ash from making/using homemade lump charcoal and also our home fires in Autumn/Winter, and I've always wanted to repurpose it. I apparently know about as much as you do - it would raise PH which isn't necessary for my gardens, so I remain at a loss for where to use it. If one has acidic garden soil I believe the ash would be a helpful amendment - not sure how you're sitting there, but imagine the conifer forests have rendered your native soil on the acidic side? You could certainly handle a spike in the PH of the pond, but 6.8 is well within safe parameters...so, perhaps you would be safer simply broadcasting it in the field. Sorry not more help...but also wanted to just say "Hello"!

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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