why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

In article ,
ernie mendoza writes:
| why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
| slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

No. Possibly by the ones in Whitehall, though.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Apr 29, 10:00 am, Martin wrote:
On 29 Apr 2008 08:41:40 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:



In article ,
ernie mendoza writes:
| why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
| slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

No. Possibly by the ones in Whitehall, though.

It was banned in UK during the BSE epidemic.
--

Martin

I remember using it in UK in mid 1990s and it gets all over the place;
it ends up on your hands or you inhale the stuff (even if only tiny
amounts) when you splash it around. This scared the biggies out of me
for a while when I realised its role in spreading BSE. Bone meal in
cattle feed was probably the reason it spread so much. The infectious
agent is very resistant to most normal treatments and it can stay
active for ages, even in the ground. It is sad because that was
actually very good recycling but I would not touch the stuff now.
Pelleted chicken big jobs will have to do instead. If it was banned
by the EU, then dead right. I think it was banned by the UK govt
though, and that was a bit late in the day (memories of Conservative
government ministers feeding hamburgers to their F1 progeny).

Des

In article ,
says...
why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

No it has not been banned, you can buy on line from LBS www.lbs-
group.co.uk
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

In article ,
Martin writes:
| On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:12:23 +0100, Charlie Pridham
| wrote:
| In article ,
| says...
|
| why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
| slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?
|
| No it has not been banned, you can buy on line from LBS www.lbs-
| group.co.uk
|
| It was banned in cattle feed by UK and then the EU. Odd that it's OK to spread
| it on fields. Maybe people no longer believe we will all have nvCJD by 2010.

Plants tend not to get CJD, variant or otherwise, as they lack a central
nervous system.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article ,
lid says...
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:12:23 +0100, Charlie Pridham
wrote:

In article ,
says...
why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

No it has not been banned, you can buy on line from LBS www.lbs-
group.co.uk

It was banned in cattle feed by UK and then the EU. Odd that it's OK to spread
it on fields. Maybe people no longer believe we will all have nvCJD by 2010.

According to our hort supplier it was restricted for only a short period
then sales resumed, they suppose only imported bone is used but have
never found out. I continued to use Blood Fish and Bone although with
some trepidation!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

In article ,
Martin writes:
|
| | It was banned in cattle feed by UK and then the EU. Odd that it's OK to spread
| | it on fields. Maybe people no longer believe we will all have nvCJD by 2010.
|
| Plants tend not to get CJD, variant or otherwise, as they lack a central
| nervous system.
|
| Cows eat grass, grass has bone meal on it. ...

You are making rather a lot of dubious and even incorrect assumptions
there.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 29 Apr, 09:33, ernie mendoza wrote:
why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? *has this
slow-release fertiliser *been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

Some researchers aren't convinced that you should automatically add
phosphorus to your soil...
http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda%2.../Phosphate.pdf

In article ,
Martin writes:
| On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:46:39 +0100, Charlie Pridham
| wrote:
|
| According to our hort supplier it was restricted for only a short period
| then sales resumed, they suppose only imported bone is used but have
| never found out. I continued to use Blood Fish and Bone although with
| some trepidation!
|
| Amateurs make do with blood, sweat and tears )

I make my own - fee, fie, fo, fum.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Martin writes:
| On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:46:39 +0100, Charlie Pridham
| wrote:
|
| According to our hort supplier it was restricted for only a short
period
| then sales resumed, they suppose only imported bone is used but have
| never found out. I continued to use Blood Fish and Bone although with
| some trepidation!
|
| Amateurs make do with blood, sweat and tears )

I make my own - fee, fie, fo, fum.

I'd rather use a Frenchman ...

Mary

It's in my local garden centres. Maybe it has just taken longer this year for the manufacturers to supply it.

"beccabunga" wrote in message
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ernie mendoza;787377 Wrote:
why can't i find bone meal in the shops this year? has this
slow-release fertiliser been banned by the bureaucrats in brussels?

It's in my local garden centres. Maybe it has just taken longer this
year for the manufacturers to supply it.




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beccabunga

Wilkinsons have got it all year around.