Where do you stick your ash

tslex · Aug 1, 2015

No one like the smells of ash and dottle, so I have always assumed that my practice -- dumping it into an empty large tobacco tin with a tight lid (preferably one of those with a plastic top), then throwing away the tin when full -- is universal.
But I have learned there is endless variety hereabouts and so, I ask: Where do you stick your ash?

aldecaker · Aug 1, 2015

I'm strictly an outside smoker, so mine gets dumped in a stainless cuspidor on my patio.

wolfe64 · Aug 1, 2015

Our younger Shepherd likes to dig the odd hole and there is one by the garage rear man door and since I only smoke outside or in the garage that is where it goes.
Mark

brudnod · Aug 1, 2015

I am an outdoor smoker as well but in a screened-in porch. The ash, dottle and burnt matches go in 1.5 oz tobacco tin.

pruss · Aug 1, 2015

I empty ashtrays and cans into our compost pit.
-- Pat

tslex · Aug 1, 2015

I've heard that tobacco ash is effective at keeping some garden pests at bay. True?

bigpond · Aug 1, 2015

Dedicated ash whole. I thought everybody had one.

allan · Aug 1, 2015

Dedicated ash whole. I thought everybody had one.

love it!~

phil67 · Aug 1, 2015

I've always been told that I stick my ash were it isn't wanted, or was that nose?

tslex · Aug 1, 2015

"Ash hole"
Genius.

iamn8 · Aug 1, 2015

I've been told that ash makes great fertilizer so mine gets mixed with water for my tomato plants

aldecaker · Aug 1, 2015

tslex- If my mother-in-law is considered a garden pest, then yes, it works wonders.

tslex · Aug 1, 2015

aldecaker, that made me laugh.

seacaptain · Aug 1, 2015

I smoke outside, so the pipe gets a sharp rap and it all goes in the yard. I'm wondering how it will affect the grass near the back patio. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

aldecaker · Aug 1, 2015

Actually, on a more serious note, I recently read (somewhere) that urban-dwelling birds tend to pick up used cigarette butts and incorporate them into their nests. The experts who study this kind of stuff were of the opinion that the noxious chemicals from the burnt tobacco repels mites and other parasites. So, there may well be something to that garden pest theory...

jpmcwjr · Aug 1, 2015

Anywhere in the lawn, shrubs, tree trunks, compost if I'm near it at the time.
Sadly, there's nothing nutritious about ash in the garden—nor detrimental afaik.

frozenchurchwarden · Aug 1, 2015

In the winter I'll occasionally dump it at random, but for now I use old jam jars (not the nice mason jars) and tobacco tins.

pipesmokingtom · Aug 1, 2015

Mine gets tapped out in to the crown of the ceramic hat in my avatar. When it's so full I can't see the knocker (whiskey cork), I dump it in the crapper and wipe the hat down with a wet paper towel. That's when I usually reglue the knocker, which consists of me heating up the hot glue on the bottom with a lighter and sticking it back on.

tamer291 · Aug 1, 2015

I'm an outside smoker too. I put my ash in any old mason jar. When it gets full I just toss the jar away.

tarak · Aug 2, 2015

Outside smoker. Dump into a tin, fling in the yard after each smoke.

Where do you stick your ash

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