BobWalsh wrote:

Hi Everybody,
....

Bone meal doesn't move well through the soil. Therefore it is best to
add it at planting time by sprinkling it over and around the roots so
that the plant nutrients will interact with the root system immediately
and be most beneficial to plant's overall development.

this is a good reason to talk about no till techniques
and the benefit of fungal hyphae in transferring
nutrients from one area to another.

phosphates move through the fungal hyphae via simple
osmosis as the plants keep using it and thus there
is a gradient.


songbird