Why is an ordinary rural area like plant ash so popular with old farmers?

Plant ash burned by rural people in the past is actually a good thing, which can be applied in many places. And for plant ash, the cost is very low, almost zero. People in rural areas heat the kang and burn fire for three meals a day, such as corn stalks, peanut seedlings and wheat stalks. As long as they can be ignited, they will be used. As a result, there are a lot of plant ash, and basically the ashes will be dug up in five or six days. Secretly tell everyone that plant ash plays a very special role in rural daily life.

To say that the use of plant ash is basically used as fertilizer for farmers, at that time, there was a cesspit outside the gate of every family, which was filled with half a pit of water, cow dung, pig manure, manure collected at home and toilet manure. plant ash poured it in, and sometimes sprinkled some grass in summer.

After soaking for a long time, a pit of farmyard manure came out, dug it out to dry, and when planting crops, it was pulled into the field and scattered. The cultivated land was turned over, and the crops grew strong and good, especially watermelons, which were full of farmyard manure and grew big and sweet!

Plant ash also has a special purpose, that is, it can be sprayed with grey water, packed with a bamboo sieve and filled with plant ash. Then, use a big basin below, add clear water to the gray water, and then slowly spray a big basin of gray water. This grey water can be used for washing clothes and washing hair. Before there was no washing powder, we used to spray gray water to wash clothes!

Plant ash has another use. Once upon a time, there were children at home for several months, and they were afraid of wetting the bed in winter, so they sewed a big bag out of old cloth, called a gray bag! It is filled with plant ash, flattened and spread under the child's ass. Plant ash wouldn't get wet if he peed. The next day, he took out the ashes, dried the cloth bag and put a bag of ashes for later use.

1, fertilizer Plant ash has a high content of potassium. Applying plant ash in vegetable garden is very beneficial to supplement the potassium needed by soil and crops.

2, used for pickling. Many salted duck eggs and preserved eggs in rural areas will be used in plant ash. It is a common practice for many farmers to wrap duck eggs after mixing plant ash, yellow mud and salty salt.