How to Make Chicken Bone Fertilizer

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Clean as much of the meat and fat off of the bones as you can.

   Wear goggles to keep from being hit with little bone fragments.
   
   Stir the now-smaller bone fragments around to reposition them.
   
   You can keep mashing them until you have mostly powdered bones with some larger fragments, but it's best to mash them into a fine powder.
   
   Once you have the powder, you can also add eggs shells for added calcium, which will make your plants more disease resistant.
   
   Microwave the egg shells for two minutes, then grind and add. ,, The roots will spread, so keep adding bone powder as they grow, but keep the powder a 6 to 8 inches (15.2 to
   20.3 cm) away from the root ball.
   
   Rainwater will gradually work it towards the secondary roots in no time.
   
   The secondary roots grow very rapidly, so keeping the bone meal farther away is usually no problem, since these little roots will search for the meal on their own.
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   Step 2: Place them on a microwavable plate and microwave them for three minutes in three separate increments (a total of nine minutes).

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   Step 3: Let the bones cool for several minutes

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   Step 4: as they will be very hot and dry at this point.

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   Step 5: Place the dry

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   Step 6: brittle bones into a heavy iron pot

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   Step 7: then gradually mash them with a piece of wood or a hammer.

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   Step 8: Work of all your natural fertilizer 6 to 8 inches (15.2 to 20.3 cm) away from the root ball and 3 to 4 inches (7.6 to 10.2 cm) into the depth of the soil.

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   Step 9: During the growing season

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    Step 10: work gently around the root ball.

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