Blood and Bone, Chicken Manure or Fish Meal Slow release type fertilisers are great for the health of your turf, providing a slow consistent supply of nutrient, rather than one quick burst.
You can use both in your garden, one of our Yates Professional Blood and Bone (Plus Potash) has got potash in it which is great for flowers and fruit. Dynamic lifter is goof for all round good growth, just make sure that you water in well.
The best plants to use blood and bone for maximum productivity are veggies, like tomatoes, peppers, and aubergines, which really do benefit from the iron and calcium, which will enhance flavour and help them to fight off both fungal and bacterial infections throughout the season.
Tips for Applying Blood and Bone Meal
Blood and bone meal is best applied during soil preparation from February to November. Sprinkle it over the soil in an even layer or add it to the compost pile and mix it in thoroughly.
Fish, blood and bone meal fertiliser is another common variety of bone meal fertiliser and is made from fishbone and blood rather than beef bones. It can be used across a wide variety of plants and is ideal for fruit, vegetables, flowers, roses, shrubs and trees.
Blood & Bone
It is well suited to most gardens and while more frequent application is required than that of a slow release fertiliser, it is a great method to keep your plants and soil healthy all year round.
This versatile fertiliser can be applied during the heat of summer or in the cold of winter (even as a soil conditioner) & is ideal when Autumn gardening to give your plants and soil an underlying boost before the approaching Winter.
PREPLANTING: 150g per m2 worked into the top 10cm of soil 7-10 days before planting. SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS: ANNUAL FLOWERS: 150g per m2 into 10cm of soil before planting. BULBS: 50g per m2.
Use one tablespoon of bone meal fertilizer for every two square feet of soil. Mix or rake the bone meal into your garden soil. Consider adding a small amount of bone meal fertilizer inside a planting hole prior to planting.
Blood and Bone
An organic fertiliser suitable for all gardens including Australian natives. Provides nitrogen for healthy leaf growth and phosphorus for strong root development.
The benefits of Blood and Bone defined as 65% pure high quality organic meat meal are substantial to plant and soil health: Improves soil structure and drainage. promotes soil micro-organisms and encourages earthworms. Includes cow manure, which is a gentle source of nutrients.
A regular, generous application of well rotted animal manure or compost and blood and bone are perfect for roses. Avoid manure from animals that eat meat and use chicken manure sparingly - as these are too acidic for roses.
Seasol Lawn Care is the perfect combination of seaweed and trace elements to revitalise your lawn and soil. It helps promotes healthy growth, enhances foliage colour and protects your lawn from heat and drought stress. Seasol Lawn Care is ideal to use after mowing.
There are two main choices for a lawn leveling top dressing: sand or a sand-soil mix. For leveling purposes, pure sand is the quickest and easiest. Sand provides excellent structure and leveling properties, will help with drainage, and can cling to the clay in the soil.
Milorganite Slow-Release Nitrogen Fertilizer
Slow-release fertilizers are the best fertilizers for grass because they gradually release nutrients into your soil instead of all at once.
While blood, fish and bone is considered a good fertiliser as a natural source of all three major nutrients, its main components are by-products of the slaughter industry and leftovers from fish processing plants.
As you might guess from the name, bone meal is derived from animal bones. And although bone meal and blood meal sound similar and are both organic fertilizers, they differ in the nutrients they contribute to help plants grow. Blood meal is high in nitrogen while bone meal provides phosphorus and calcium.
Dig Blood & Bone into the soil before planting at a rate of one and a half cups per square metre, or apply to established plants, topdress around the plants at a rate of one cup per square meter.
The good thing about blood & bone is that it is an organic product which will not burn your plants as the nutrients are released slowly.
If you would prefer an organic fertiliser for your lawn and garden or are looking for a way to improve the organic structure of your soil, then Dynamic Lifter is certainly a good option as part of a broader treatment program.
Wood ash, compost, seaweed, shell, rotted horse manure, comfrey, chicken droppings can all be used, in addition to the rather gruesome-sounding "fish, blood and bone".
Plants that don't need bonemeal include the soil builders. Soil builders are plants that fix nitrogen, such as legumes. Leafy vegetables like lettuce, spinach (Spinacia oleracea), cabbage (Brassica oleracea) and broccoli (Brassica oleracea) tend to need more nitrogen than phosphorus.
Some types of fertiliser such as bone meal and blood meal can cause significant gastrointestinal upset (vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation) and possibly pancreatitis, especially if eaten in large quantities. Certain fertilisers may also contain bacterial or fungal toxins which can have serious side effects if ingested.
As with inorganic fertilisers, some, such as chicken manure, are high in nitrogen while others, like blood and bone, contain more phosphorus. The best results in the garden come from using a mixture of both organic and inorganic fertilisers.