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In a world of traditional gardening and sustainable farming, ash has for a long time been revered as a natural and very effective way to control pest.

This method that has been passed down through generations involves using ash from burned wood to prevent pest from crops without using chemical pesticides.

However with it's numerous benefits comes other things that we should definitely keep an eye on.

Before that lets look at some traditional use of ash in pest control.

There are several ways of applying ash in crop pest control,

• The first method which is probably the easiest is to just get this ash from where we find best suitable for us and sprinkle the ash all around the plant and not on the plant what this method does is that it keeps the crawling pest from getting to the plant .

• The second method is to direct it on the leaves and stems of the plant the ash irritates the pest and they are forced to move to other hospitable environments, it is a normal mechanism for living organisms to move to a place that they are most comfortable at.

• The mixture of the ash and water is another way the ash will be thicker on the plant and it will be more difficult for the pest to get to the plant.

• Lastly soil incorporation where the ash is mixed with the soils before planting though it is more stressful, it keeps soil dwelling insect pest away.

Ash usage has huge benefits, it is generally readily available, it is environmentally friendly compared to chemical control pesticides and it is definitely effective.

Now to the most important points of this post,

The consequences of using ash on plants

• Nutritional imbalance for a first, ash adds some nutrients to the soil and it also lacks other important nutrients likewise it lacks the most important nutrients which is nitrogen.

• Limited effectiveness which means that not all pest are affected by ash some don't react to it at all.

• Then there are presence of heavy metals in ash that are also harmful in one way or the other.

Conclusively I can say that ash is a good natural way to control pest even though it has its own downsides.

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