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What do you do with your ashes?

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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,528
    Griffin said:
    Just remember that dumping your ashes in your garden or bushes will change the pH of your soil. That maybe a good thing or a problem depending on where you live and what you are trying to grow.
    Good advice. Lump ash will raise soil ph. If you live in the PNW, soil ph is usually on the low (acid) side from all the evergreens and ashes can go just about anywhere without causing any problems. If your soil has a high ph, careful which flower bed you put them in, unless you want a desert scene. 
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  • DaveRichardson
    DaveRichardson Posts: 2,324
    Still collecting in a small metal trash can. The mini- shop vac that I use on total clean outs gets dumped in there as well... Probably will mix into garden come next year.

    My ashes.... SWMBO has been asked to dump me in a hole on the beach at low tide so I can be washed to sea when the tide rolls in.

    LBGE since 2014

    Griffin, GA 

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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,490
    I dump mine behind the fence in our yard during the summer and sometimes in the winter.  In the winter I've also used ash to spread on icy patches, especially in the back yard where I want to be careful about the dog getting rock salt in her paws, both for the pain and if she starts eating it.

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • JRWhitee
    JRWhitee Posts: 5,678
    I toss them over the deck in the vine covered section of my yard.
                                                                
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  • BigGreenGator
    BigGreenGator Posts: 346
    spank them??? 8-}

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  • jerryb78
    jerryb78 Posts: 215
    I know a guy that bought a mini and set it aside to use as an urn for his ashes when he dies.
    LBGE
    Menasha, WI
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  • EGGjlmh
    EGGjlmh Posts: 823

    In the garden for me.

    1MBGE 2006, 1LBGE 2010, 1 Mini Max, Fathers Day 2015

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  • SmyrnaGA
    SmyrnaGA Posts: 438
    jerryb78 said:
    I know a guy that bought a mini and set it aside to use as an urn for his ashes when he dies.
    After putting that thought in my head, the responses to this thread is pretty funny!!

    I bag the ash from my egg and it go into the trash.  I don't plan to be cremated, so no ashes from me!

    Large BGE, Small BGE, KJ Jr, and a Cracked Vision Kub.

    in Smyrna GA.


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