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Old 14-03-2011, 12:56 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Default how to make soil amendments without digging up the yard?

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For nitrogen I'd spread 'your friend and mine' - good old blood
and bone.

And you get this from where?, he said with reservations.

I have no idea since I don't live in the US. If I did, I suspect
I'd be looking for it under a different name, like blood meal or
bone meal or somesuch.

I wasn't sure, if that was what you meant, or the inedible remains of
slaughtered animals.


Well I do know people who have very large shredding machine who pick
up roadkill (eg dead roos, wombats etc), shove the roadkill through
the shredder and then throw in either cardboard boxes or hay bales to
clean out the lingering remains. I guess that would achieve a
similar result.


Do they run a soup kitchen?


LOL. We're too deeply rural for them to get any customers except roos or
wombats. The use the shredder goo to fertilise their wind breaks.