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Bone meal....make your own?
Comments (37)I am new to this site and enjoyed reading everyone's experience. Quite a nice batch of information. I collect bones and make a batch of stock in the oven overnight at 210 degrees F. Sometimes I throw the bones in the gardens or grind them to use as a base for dog treats. When my beloved hogs return from the butcher, I pressure cook their heads, remove all soft edible parts to can for the dogs and cats, and throw the bones to the chickens to peck off the stuff that I could not remove. The chickens will strip them clean and also eat some of the bone, great for egg shell integrity. After pressure cooking the bones are pretty soft, so I can just throw them in the garden once the chickens have their fill. I will also put feathers in my garden after processing a batch of broilers, turkeys and/or ducks. These break down amazingly quickly. I save all my egg shells for the garden. Some shells I compost, some I throw directly in the garden and others I save for transplanting my tomatoes....I understand that the calcium can help in preventing blossom end rot. All that said, the thing that offers the most obvious, dramatic, and instant benefit to my plants in bunny poop, which is composted prior to leaving the bunny and can be applied straight away to the garden.....See Morebone meal in compost
Comments (6)I use bone meal at the bases of rose bushes for a good flush of roses. In the garden I dig large 1' deep holes where I am starting my plants to look for cutworms and to deposit a screened mixture of agricultural grade limestone dust, bone meal, Epsom salt, compost, peat moss, & some of the dirt I originally dug up. It is all mixed together really well and planted. I bottle my urine and use it for nitrogen boosts at the beginning of the year... This keeps out a lot of cats and it is inexpensive & plentiful. (I also use it to compost leaves.) I'm not sure if it would keep dogs from digging up the garden. However, there is an additive that will prevent your dogs from digging up the soil with bone meal or not... It's called Cayenne Pepper powder, and unless your dogs are Cajun from New Iberia, Louisiana, they will avoid this powder after one sniff. Sometimes, I put bone meal in my compost to help raise the temperature to make it compost more efficiently....See Morevery scary incident w/ bone meal...
Comments (14)Trailrunner, Oh- coyotes may be your culprit for sure then! a2zmom- WE ARE NEIGHBORS GIRLFRIEND!!! I LIVE IN ROXBURY.. THE OTHER SIDE OF DOVER! I hate to dissapoint ya, but girlfriend you HAVE bears in Randolph..!!Now it depends where in Randolph you are.. I am in the Berkshire Valley section of Roxbury- bordering Wharton & Jefferson & Kenvil. But I happen to live on a street that cuts into the Berkshire valley Wildlife mangement area.. - about 2000acres of preserve...haha So we got BEARS. one got my garbage last week. I have SEEN the coyotes dead and alive in person just taking a walk AND a little more than a year ago, a MOUNTIAN LION ran infront of my car- in front of my HOUSE! I am NOT kidding you. I called all my neighbors- i thought it was their dogs.. they called me the next morning..it was on the news.. a mountain lion in Roxbury.. it made complete sense. My mind oculd not comprehend what i was seeing- but i kept telling everyone it was not a deer, it was a very large dog with an extremely thick and long and low tail and it RAN sooo gracefully- like no other dog i have ever seen. DUH- cuz it ran like a CAT. me not beign a cat person.. i didnt make the connection.. I googled it.. and that is what i SAW with my own eyes my dear. Welcome to the STICKS! No one ever thinks of NJ this way. anyway- more importantly.. when you coming over??!! LOL...See MoreEpson Salt and Bone meal used together?
Comments (6)Definitely a soil test before you add these. Many parts of the country have plenty of Mg in its soil, my area is one of them & if you use lime on your soil, the most common form of garden lime is "dolomite limestone" which is high in Mg. Diane is right about bone meal, it is not a good source of P because it takes forever to become available to the plant....See Moremarymd7
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