Re: Bone meal
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Bone meal
- From: M* L* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 12:19:42 -0600
At 12:09 PM 5/31/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 5/31/98 11:27:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ksayles@excel.net writes:
>
><< Bone meal is a good fertilizer for iris. >>
>Are there any bone meal experts on the list? I have been told contradictory
>information about bone meal: both that it is an excellent fertilizer,
>especially for bulbs, and also that it takes so long to break down and
release
>its nutrients that it is virtually useless. Anyone have any facts?
>
>I have also been told that there is unprocessed bone meal and steamed bone
>meal and that the steamed bone meal does indeed make an excellent fertilizer,
>but the unprocessed is virtually useless.
>
>Answers?
>
>Bill Lee
Wasn't it about a year ago that one of the TV news magazines reported some
link between the use of bone meal and the transmission of "mad cow
disease"? (In humans known as Kreutzfeld-Jakob (sp?) disease or vice
versa). I use a dust mask when using bone meal. That's unpleasant, so I
hope the verdict is that it is "a good thing." Margaret
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