[pbs] Bone Meal - Probably off topic
Rodger Whitlock
totototo at pacificcoast.net
Fri Jan 23 16:20:56 EST 2004
On 22 Jan 04 at 21:39, Robin L. Hansen wrote:
> I'm just now getting to finish the fall issue of The Bulb Garden and
> Ms. Richardson makes note of the fact that she considers "modern"
> bone meal generally useless as bulb fertilizer.
>
> Can anyone tell me why?
In ye goode olde Dayes, bonemeal was ground-up bones that had
fragments of meat still attached and the collagen still in place.
These days, bones are processed for gelatin and such, and are
nearly pure calcium phosphate -- which is nearly insoluble! This has
been true for quite a long time, I believe.
Putting bonemeal on your garden won't harm it, but it probably
doesn't do much good.
Don't waste your money on it.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island
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