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I know that we don't even consider bone meal for liquid soil/foliar feeding because it takes forever to break down so plants can use it and it just doesn't get absorbed good that way. But what about if you would add it to your compost tea so the surging bacterial growth can break it down so your plants can use it from the tea? If this could work, how uch should you use?

5/30/2009 9:50:11 AM

tea is not a fertilizer

5/30/2009 11:44:39 AM

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Bone meal might foster bacterial/fungal growth. I really don't know. But for sure the tiny amount of P that might leach into the resulting tea will be too small to benefit the plants. Phosphorus is very insoluble & the form found in bone meal is the worst in terms of recovery.

5/30/2009 8:34:47 PM