Ashes to Ashes

I wonder who used this last?

 

This sifting box has been around for more than a few years.

 

While I was living @ Kent Lane, especially during the late '70's, I had an awesome "Victory" garden in the back yard, as did my grandparents a few decades earlier. I know from working the soil over those years that quite a bit of the ashes from their coal furnace in the basement and the coal/gas stove in the kitchen were dumped all along the property line in the rear of their property. 

 

Didn't seem to hurt the plants too much.