Organic bone meal fertilizer: how to apply in the garden

Organic bone meal fertilizers are used in agriculture where additional calcium is needed to reduce acidity. Suitable for all garden and indoor ornamental crops. This is an environmentally friendly, harmless, long-acting fertilizer that turns into the soil within 6 to 8 months.

Bone meal - organic phosphate fertilizer

Phosphoazotin, or bone meal, is made from the skeleton of cattle; it is such a valuable fertilizer for the agricultural industry.

The composition of the bone substance includes the main nutrients needed by plants at various stages of vegetation:

phosphorus;
potassium;
nitrogen;
calcium.

Also, phosphoazotine contains trace elements. Most of them have a significant impact on the condition of green mass and roots.

The main element of plant nutrition is phosphorus. There are 3 types of substances, the amount of phosphorus in which differs in percentage terms:

without fat impurities - 35%;
dropped - 25%;
ground - 15%.

Potassium in flour is less, but it lasts for a long time for feeding vegetable crops. The least amount of nitrogen is about 4%. Therefore, when introducing phosphoazotine into the soil, it is necessary to simultaneously use nitrogen-containing fertilizers - urea, s altpeter or ammonium sulfate.

In terms of nutrient content, phosphoazotine is more suitable for cactus plants, since succulents require large amounts of calcium for growth and development.

Must use meat and bone waste on peat boggy soils. Plants on such soil always lack copper, and in bone meal it is 18%. On light sandy soils, nutrients are quickly washed out into the lower layers, becoming inaccessible to plants. Thanks to the long period of decay of animal remains, plants are nourished, grow well and bear fruit.

Benefits of using bone meal

Meat and bone meal is used for all plants:

in gardening, vegetable garden;
for indoor decorative flowers.

A composting agent is used, the disadvantage of which is the lack of phosphorus. In this case, a good ratio of nutrients is created. Manure or chicken manure is a rich source of nitrogen and potassium. The bone mixture contains phosphorus and trace elements, the main of which is calcium, it is needed to improve the metabolism in fruits and improve taste.

The presence of both phosphorus and calcium contributes to the development of the root system and the pouring of fruits.

When using ground bones in plants, immunity to fungal infections, bacterial infections, and pests increases.

Phosphorus fertilizers have a high pH, so they can reduce the acidity of the soil. For some garden plants, acidic soils are not suitable. Bone waste will bring acidity back to normal and ensure nutrient absorption and plant growth.

Fertilizer is completely natural and does not cause the accumulation of chemicals in the tissues and fruits of crops.

Bone meal for plants: how to use

Bone fertilizer is applied to the soil in autumn. The period of its decomposition is from 6 to 8 months, and by the onset of spring, the nutrients have time to move into a form convenient for assimilation. It is enough to apply once a year so that the plants do not experience a lack of nutrition throughout the entire growing season. But experienced gardeners say that 1 time per year is a lot, and it is enough to use 1 time in 3 years to maintain soil fertility.

As a feed additive, it is necessary to apply from 100 to 200 g per m² for digging.

For tomatoes and other vegetable plants

Meat and bone waste used as fertilizer for vegetable crops needs more. At the same time, vegetables will be much tastier due to calcium and potassium. The substance is applied either in autumn or in spring when planting, adding 50 g of bone meal to each well.

Tomatoes, eggplants respond best to feeding with meat and bone waste. Tomatoes have dense flesh without white streaks and seals. They have a uniform color and good seed material. The substance is used in preparing the soil for seedlings of tomatoes. It affects the growth of the root system and the full absorption of other nutrients - nitrogen, potassium and calcium by young seedlings. As a result, plants better tolerate transplanting in open ground, spring temperature changes, and begin to bloom and bear fruit earlier.

Tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage improve flowering, fruiting period and nutritional characteristics.

For potatoes

On potato fields or home gardens, meat and bone meal is laid from 300 to 500 g of substance per m². It is better to apply in the fall for digging, since adding this fertilizer to each hole takes a long time.Phosphoazotin promotes the accumulation of starch and sugar in tubers, increasing their size and quantity. You can harvest 40% more when using bone waste.

Fishmeal is suitable for potatoes in its composition, in which there is more nitrogen to build up the aerial part - shoots and leaves.

For roses

Roses need potassium and calcium to bloom. Suitable not only bone, but also fish meal as a fertilizer. The advantage of fish waste in a higher nitrogen content - up to 10%. Fishmeal also contains a lot of calcium and phosphorus, but it will be cheaper to use fish waste in regions located closer to the sea. The cost of flour is much lower.

For iron-deficient soils, blood meal is used - dried blood of cattle. It is mixed with meat and bone and applied to the soil for plant nutrition.

For strawberries

The use of flour saturates the soil with useful elements for feeding strawberries. The substance is applied during the flowering period to strengthen the root system and increase the number of ovaries.

For bulb plants

Meat and bone meal for onion crops is applied dry in autumn or spring. Ornamental bulbous plants are fertilized in the recesses around the root. After laying the furrows are sprinkled with earth.

For berry bushes and fruit trees

When planting berry crops - strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, the substance is introduced into the hole. Do not worry that the substance will damage the root system. It is harmless and for a long time will save the gardener from the need for top dressing.The only thing that will have to be done is foliar spraying with urea to replenish nitrogen reserves. The second option is to scatter ammonium nitrate between the rows.

For indoor plants

For flower crops grown in pots, 1 part flour per 100 parts soil is enough. In a medium-sized pot, you can mix 2-3 tablespoons of bone meal. The product decomposes for a long time, so for the next six months you don’t have to worry that the plants will lack nutrition. In case of chlorotic spots on the leaves, use nitrogen sprays or top dressing with nitrate. Potassium sulphate is suitable for indoor plants to stimulate flowering.

Bone meal for liquid fertilizer

With the same success, bone fertilizer can be used in dry form or in liquid solutions. To prepare a flour solution, you need:

take 1 kg of phosphoazotine;
fill with a bucket of boiling water;
insist for a week, stirring occasionally;
strain and add another 10 liters of water.

The resulting concentrate is diluted to 400 liters and seedlings, berry bushes, potatoes are watered. It is advisable to moisten the soil before fertilizing so that the plants absorb nutrients better.

Green fertilizer is often used in horticulture - an infusion of weeds or nettles, in which there is a lot of nitrogen, but little phosphorus. You can add bone products to the green infusion, enriching it with trace elements and phosphorus.

What happens if you overfeed?

It is almost impossible to overfeed plants with bone supplements. But there is a risk of disrupting the chemical and bacterial composition of the soil under the following conditions:

if mixed with mineral complexes, you can apply too much phosphate fertilizer, which will lead to impaired nitrogen absorption;
use of stale products with mold can cause an outbreak of fungal infection and crop death;
exceeding the dosage threatens to increase the alkali content, which will lead to a suspension of growth due to poor absorption of nutrients by plants;
application on neutral or alkaline soils will not do any good, at best it will not hurt, because nutrition will become unavailable to the root system of most crops, except those that are suitable for soils with high pH.

For the complete dissolution of phosphorus in the bone mixture, a slightly acidic soil reaction is required. For balance, it is recommended to mix waste with peat, which has a low pH.

Conclusions

Phosphoazotine will do more good in acidic or slightly acidic soils. On neutral and alkaline, the substance should be used carefully so as not to disturb the balance of nutrients in plant tissues.