I live in southern England. I usually put pelleted chicken manure on my allotment but this year i have bought Bonemeal is this the same. i am going to put brassicas, potatoes, sweet corn, broad & runner beans in.
which fertiliser
Bonemeal adds phosphorus to your soil whereas chicken manure provides Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium to you plants (more than horse, cow or steer manure). Bonemeal is good added to bulbs or flowering plants but it should not be your sole source of nutrients. I would just continue with the chicken manure as it is balanced.
Thanks, I have some fruit bushes can i put the bonemeal on these
As I understand it you can use bonemeal on anything but I imagine the amount depends on the fruit bushes. Why don't you google "best uses for bonemeal" and see what you come up with? It is also good with roses and other flowers. I use it for my asparagus as well and add liquid bonemeal when tomatoes begin to set fruit. It can be used in conjunction with your rabbit manure. It will just raise the phosphorus level compared to your nitrogen. I'm not really an expert on bonemeal so you may want to ask a local garden center what is best for your fruit bushes. Good luck.
Bonemeal provides more phosphorus than any other nutrient. You would have to read the label on the package you have to see what other nutrients it provides. Maybe a small amount of nitrogen, calcium, magnesium and some other things.
As a really rough guide phosphorus feeds roots, flowers and fruit, but not so much the leaves.
Easiest way to use it:
Use it sparingly all over. All plants need phosphorus to grow roots, and stems, even if you are going to harvest them before they go to flower. But some plants are specifically grown for roots, flowers or fruit, and could use a little extra phosphorus.
So a more targeted use:
I would add bonemeal to parts of the garden where I am growing root crops-
Carrot, Onion, Radishes, Turnips... basically anything that grows underground. And not add the chicken manure to these areas. Too much nitrogen.
I would also put it wherever I wanted the flowers and fruit:
Which is pretty much all the other vegetables except leaf vegetables. Ornamental flowers including bulbs.
But I would also add chicken manure to these. Many of these crops grow for a while, developing the leaves that create the energy to grow the fruit: Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squashes of all kinds, pumpkin, beans, peas, corn (maize)...
For the leaf vegies (lettuce, spinach, kale, cabbage...) I would just use the poultry manure. Higher in nitrogen, which grows leaves.
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