Confessions of a crappy gardener.

[Hotzcatz]

Hmm, and what else to do with the leftover wood and ashes from smoking the pig that was digging up the garden? Or does it have to be charcoal and not ashes? How do you make charcoal? Isn't that technically different than ashes?

Ashes have lye in them, does charcoal? To make soap, drizzle rainwater through a big keg or box of ashes, collect the water after it has filtered through the ashes and then mix it with melted lard. (Gives you something to do with the extra fat off the smoked pig that used to dig up the garden.) That will produce lye soap. Guess un-concentrated lye is okay in the soil since ashes are supposed to be good for the soil.