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Using bones for fertilizer?
I dug out an old book of mine called "5 acres and independence" by M. G.
Kains. Anyways, he suggested that when you are planting grapes, to throw a couple of bones in the bottom of the trenches prior to planting. On paper, it seems like a good way to add some REALLY slow release fertilizer to the roots. Has anyone done this? I was under the impression that the oils and fats and stuff on the bones hinder the process. Although, being under a foot of soil, there wouldn't be any smells or cats digging in to find them. Possibly, after you cook down your Thanksgiving turkey (day 6 or turkey!) and make soup, a huge amount of the fats and things would have been boiled off. Do you just throw all that stuff into the hole and go with it? I realize that the book is dated, but even the Native Americans would throw a couple of fish heads in there corn mounds--and it seems to have sustained them for thousands of years. thanks john |
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