Bone Meal

Bone meal fertilizer is a powder made from ground-up animal bones, normally beef bones, but they can be the bones of any animal. The bone meal is steamed to increase its availability for plants.

Benefits of a Bone Meal:

Due to being rich in phosphorus and calcium, it is used as an organic fertilizer for plants and as a nutritional supplement for animals. Phosphorus is one of the three major nutrients that plants require for healthy growth.

1. Bone meal is a 100% organic source of calcium, which helps keep the cell walls of your plants strong and healthy and promotes root growth.
2. Phosphorus is another key nutrient found in bone meal fertilizer. This mineral plays a big role in photosynthesis, seed production, energy transfer within the plant, and other vital functions.
3. Efficient in flowering plants, boosting the formation of larger blooms and bulbs.

How to Use Bone Meal in the Garden:

1. Before applying bone meal to your garden, it is important to perform a soil test. Phosphorus from organic fertilizer like bone meal is only available to plants in acidic soil with a pH level of 7 or lower.
2. Use one tablespoon of bone meal fertilizer for every two square feet of soil. Mix or rake the bone meal into your garden soil.
3. After adding bone meal fertilizer to your garden, water the soil. Proper watering breaks down and activates the fertilizer.
4. Bone meal fertilizer takes about four months to fully break down in the soil.