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HetKu Wood Ash can be a great addition to the fruit and vegetable gardens. It contains potassium which is essential for fruiting and flowering plants. Potassium regulates plants’ water balance, improves root health, and has a part in transporting food within the plant and creating sugars and starches. Without enough potassium, vegetables, fruits and flowers are vulnerable to drought, frost, pests and diseases. Sprinkling wood ash straight onto the soil also deters slugs, snails, aphids and fruit fly away. Root vegetables such as carrots, radish, parsnips and turnips, flower bulbs, peas, tomatoes and beans, and fruits such as dessert apples, redcurrants, gooseberries, cooking apples, pears, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, plums, apricots, grapes, cherries and blackcurrants all appreciate potassium.