This makes me think about how the bible says not to eat blood, it actually says to pour it out on the ground, maybe it was the best fertilizer back then, and better used in growing better soil than using as food.
Ashley I am intensely interested in Ancient Agriculture Permaculture people are Big 3 sisters projects testing 3 squash, 4 and bean varieties using Cornell model based on Haudenosaunee
I top dress my raised vegetable beds in the fall with a bone/blood meal mix as I'm putting them to bed. I'll also add a bit of wood ash when we clean out the firepit for the final time in the fall. It gets worked into the top couple' space of inches of soil. I don't do any other fertilizing in my beds, and I grow pretty dense in the space, and I've had really good production.
Great video! I absolutely love bloodmeal and use it on tropicals and orchids in very low doses. I have written about organic ferts a bit on my blog too, but am super cautious about advising how much a person uses. I have had many people use too much bloodmeal and kill off roots (or plants entirely)-we’re talking like a heaping tablespoon in a pot. I think the “burning” is maybe more about the cascade affect caused by excessive organic materials decaying and how that influences the pH. As microbes consume those materials, I **ASS-u-me** it results in acidic byproducts and too much of that just plunges the pH below a safe level. So *I think* if you use too much, it can just throw off soil chemistry temporarily which presents as “burn”. I use less than 1/8tsp per 6” pot, and like you mentioned, I mix it with bonemeal, insect frass, greensand and some other goodies.
Do you have an idea on how to judge how much i should use? I use it for my aroid To, but i use 1/8 To 1/4 i think of a table spoon for 5 inch pots, and im about To repot my monstera deliciosa in like a 15-17 inch pots and i dont know how much it need at that size, i want To dose it better and use it more safely!
@@le-auss - err on caution. I would use 1/8 of a teaspoon or even less for anything smaller than a 6” pot. For 8” to 1 gallon, you can get away with a 1/4 tsp. And rather than thinking of it as dosing all at once, just re-apply these small amounts 2-3 times per year. I do a top-soil sprinkling early spring (March), late spring (May), and mid summer (June/July) - and whenever I repot something
@@HerebutNot ok perfect! And i pretty much apply it to every 3-4 month, im just not sur how to dose it for a 17 inch wide pot, maybe half of a tea spoon would be good?
I suppose you're more a soil scientist than a saleswoman, but you missed talking about one of the uses that I've heard repeated time and again. You mentioned that certain animals will be attracted to that god-awful smell, but what you didn't get into was the common (in Ottawa, anyway) adage that bloodmeal keeps away rodents like squirrels and chipmunks. I can offer an anecdote of it working surprisingly well (and we got amazing spurts of green growth in our houseplants). But, y'know, an annecdote is just that. Any comment? Have you tried it? (context: Ottawa is OVERRUN with rodents and vermin of all sizes - Geese, pigeons, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, you name it. So everyone here is always asking how to keep away these pests....since if you call animal control to catch them, they will LITERALLY release the animal EXACTLY where they caught it and fine you 200$ for that service)
Thank you for validating my decision on not using bone or blood meal this year. Being a new gardener, over the last two years I blindly followed "organic gardening techniques", and one of these was using bone and blood meal. It's not overwhelmingly expensive, but I believe it is not necessary in a biologically active soil. I'm basically going with home made compost, leaf mold and worm casting as soil amendments plus the use of teas and extracts throughout the growing season. Really enjoy your videos. Do you plan on ever doing a live feed Q and A ? I think it would be very popular, would love to pick your brain.
Great video! Last spring we used both blood and bone meal for our pepper plants, and didn’t notice any burning. You’re absolutely right about the critters! Many cilantro plants were lost that season; they were brave and strong, but ultimately overpowered by the brute force of the Canis lupus familiaris, by way of Labrador. Oh another thing, the flies were on par with The Amityville Horror. Think the blood and bone meal were possibly the culprits?
I used blood meal when I transplanted our pepper and some of the tomatoes last spring. I didn't see anything good or bad come out of it. No other nutrients, including our rabbit manure, were added. I won't bother with it again. We did use it with bone meal and worked it in around my wife's rose bushes. It did make a difference, but which one? I'm guessing most likely the bone meal. Great info you provided.Enjoyed, take care!
Have to wait for the bone meal video to find out ;). And it may have been beneficial for the roses because that soil was more deficient, It is so hard to say.
Very interesting video I have a bag fit for years now I don't use it in a long time I try not to use organic fertilizer in the garden Epsom salt sometimes alot of dry banana skins and eggs shells peanut shells crab and lobster shell also tea bags and sometimes I a little coffee grounds
This stuff pongs really bad (at least the brand I used to use here in England). Also, its microbial and fungal breakdown attracted fungus gnats like a magnet! In terms of organic ferts, nowadays I use rabbit manure, bat guano and ground lupin seeds. Rabbit manure does not have the pong associated with bloodmeal. Bat guano has its own 'earthy' and, sometimes, strong ammonia-like odour, which is nowhere near as bad (in my opinion) as the aroma of bloodmeal. There's also the ethics issue: bloodmeal is derived from abbatoirs. I feel uncomfortable using it for this reason. Perhaps I am being hypocritical, as I am not a vegan. Other organic ferts I use include: compost/composted manure and pulverised dried leaf litter. I apply the organic fertiliser as a thin layer of top-dressing, but I never mix it into the aggregate-based growing substrate of my container plants. You see, the fungal and bacterial activity associated with the breakdown of compost and other biodegradable matter can rob roots of oxygen. Compost is ideal for mushrooms (fungi) , but many plants- especially species whose roots require higher oxygen levels- eventually succumb when grown in compost, even if some perlite is added. The microbial acitivity, which competes with the plant's roots for oxygen, can eventually attack the living root tissues. Also, compost- when used as a growing substrate as opposed to a nutrition source- compacts down over time, resulting in the loss of oxygen-containing voids. Soil, such as a sandy loam, is mostly inorganic and based on silica (quartz). Some mistakenly believe that, by mixing biodegrable matter like compost into a sandy soil they end up with a 'rich loam'. Not true! In Nature, organic matter is mostly concentrated as the humus layer- dead plant and animal matter. As fungi and bacteria break down the organic matter, water-soluble nutrients leach down into the mostly inorganic soil strata below, where the plant's roots prefer to be.
Yesterday I do a big mix I take automn leaves plus residu of the last garden that I cut almost composted all winter in my greenhouse, half of big bag promix with mycorrhize, blood meal, bones meal, bit of salt, cup of sugar, rock dust, homemade banana peel powder and chicken manure I mix all together and spread that everything in the garden 700 feet square At night I spray on it with a compost tea In 1 week I will sow and plant the garden Almost free compost soil
hello Is it possible to give blood to plants? And the soil does not suffer from worms, fungi and other diseases, and is there a way for this classic method?
Re burning, I had a hole in bag of blood meal and left a line as I carried it across the grass. The grass on that line died and took a year+ to recover. So yes, it can burn.
I used blood meal on my lychee tree and it burned most of the leaves. Can you tell how long it stays in the dirt ? Can blood meal be washed out over time?
I wonder if it was about dried blood vs. applying its dry (it being the potting media). You're correct in that burning usually happens with excessive synthetic fertilizer, but if I remember my course work correctly, burning also can occur if you apply fertilizer when the potting media is dry. This is why as a Horticulturalists we are told to water and then fertilize (even if using water soluble fertilizers). I think you may also be on to something with salts, but I don't know why to comment.
Early copies of West Coast seeds catalog while it still was called Territorial mentioned not allowing it be on lettuce leaves because of discoloring, perhaps this is the burning mentioned.
Human blood has an average sodium content of roughly 140 mEq per liter. I’ve no idea how much salt is required to burn plants or what the average sodium content is in the blood of different livestock, but I would imagine the sodium content of dried blood would be more concentrated than the hydrated form. You might be on to something where it concerns the warnings from the blog posts.
I've used (very dilute) fresh urine with no ill-effect on my plants. Urine contains a bit of excreted sodium (as the chloride, I believe). If I am not mistaken, the chloride anion is utilised by plants- in very low concentrations. Of course, in its undiluted (neat) form, I expect urine to have, for all intents and purposes, a herbicidal action (sodium toxicity, undesirable pH alterations associated with the uric acid, urea/ammonium toxicity, etc)
i started using blood meal in my white bird of paradise plants and im definitely eager to gain an opinion on this fertilizer method. but after watching this video, I may mix in some bone meal as well. but it did have my balcony smelly on the first day lol I feel like I may have used too much. Thank you for this video!!
Yes another video I learn so much from u thank you Ashley for all the videos you make for us I really appreciate it and I know a lot of other people do too you're so honest and down-to-earth I love it
Maybe a lot of the blog posts mentioning burning are churned articles from content mills rather than experiences gardeners? I usually have to get to page 2 or 3 of search results to get to an article that is clearly written by a person who knows the topic rather than by a hired writer who is flipping an article based on other articles for a few cents a word.
I am not 100% sure but I think I may have had it happen in a garden I used blood and bone meal in on my 3rd year. I was using fish emulsion too. It was in my patch for tomatoes for spring summer and fall, and collards for winter
So I am using my phone for filming and I have a few different mics but they all seem to be junk... If you have a suggestion please let me know! I am open to anything at this point
I dont know but i been bingeing your videos and so far haven't really found much usable info..im not saying it isnt there but i find that it isnt OBVIOUS i guess..like a title that says how to increase microbes. The how to idnt really jump out to me...maybe a recap at the end? I do listen when i out gardening and get distracted a lot...but usually i find the subject in the video...tho im pushing 80 and well...ya know what happens im sure. .i havent ever heard a gardener say organics burn.....who said that.. I was taught blood meal .is for leaves and roots...bone meal for flowering...and well didnt find if that was true again ...tho the title didnt really suggest i would. Personally im.dealing with major evil big infestations and cant find any of the culprits...im up at 2 am again looking for them..i do have a once in a life time infestation of my pecan trees..i.was out there.for about 3 hours and my hair was like someone poured honey on it!!! ..needless to say those little.buggers are dropping down on my.seedlings like crazy..but that isnt the problem in the garden...i have BROKEN down and bought a field guide to bugs. Hoping to id what i assumed where lady bugs...but they might not be. Usually the baby lady bug things are a scary looking.creature with red and black. these have some yellow... Anyway badically.feeding the algorythm for ya and.taking a quick break from stumbling around in the dark...take care.
I jUST bought blood meal for my dahlias, hence, why Im here. But, I have used worm castings for a while now and I thought it burned my dahlias but im thinking maybe it was a coincidence that it got hot the same day...the leaves were burnt the next day, and worm castings are organic also.... Miracle Gro Rose food used as a foliage spray burned the crap out of my dahlias, most of them had to be thrown out, and the rest are stunted... Beware Miracle Gro!!!!
I impatiently sprinkled some blood meal on top of the soil in some of my house plants and even though it was just about a tablespoon each, when I checked a couple of them a few days later I moved the blood meal around and say SO MANY springtails. I had them before but there were so many little tiny white insects. There were so many that the vermiculite I had on top of all my plants soil (combating fungus gnat infestation) was actually moving in one spot. I think it was from fungus gnat larva. I’ve treated all my plants about 5 times now with mosquito bits and am now using been oil as well. I even had ants find their way in and set up a colony in one of my plants by a window!!! Wth?!? So crazy lol b
My issue with this is, that we dont know from which animals we get it. Its good to use all of the animal, but many of them were treated bad or were sick or treated with drugs. I guess most of drugs/hormones get eliminated during the process, but who knows.
I love blood meal for my onions,since every leaf on an onion equals a ring on the bulb I use lots of blood meal in my onion patch with a sense of the plants will use what they need. I worry less about over dosing the plants and harming the soil. Works great in the lettuce beds as well. I use wood shavings as mulch so I’ve not had a problem with carbon/nitrogen ratio.
I've heard bone meal has high levels of lead and mercury. Are these levels high enough to be concerned leaching through our vegetables? Does blood meal have chemicals as well? New gardener here.
I applied blood meal and worm castings to my 6 ft tomatoe plant possible to much blood meal but less than 48 hours it's killing my plant leaves and stems are fried but it was was fine with slight signs needing fertilizer b4 hand
Greetings from PEI. I've used Blood Meal in early spring for my 300+ Garlic I grow. It's getting too expensive at this point, so I've decided this year to side dress with Sheep Manure and will wait for results. Garlic is a heavy feeder. I've never had issues with Blood meal burning. I amend my soil with eel grass (Zostera marina) that washes up on the Bay I live near. The salinity is less than the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf is not as saline as the Atlantic ocean. By the time I harvest it, the rain has leached out the salt and the grass breaks down over two years so it works with the blood meal to provide nutrients, mulch and builds soil. Great video , I discovered this channel through Canadian Prepper
This year im trying safer brand 3 in one insecticidal soap...but I haven't yet because I have seen so many ladybugs and hate to take away their food for the sake of a few leaves I really don't mind sharing with nature, I will spray if and when they get out of hand, but Im all for helping nature to thrive as much as possible...
Hi Ashley! I bought some pelitized lime from home depot. It only stated lime so I assumed it was calcitic. However, when I looked at the back it said 24% cal and 12% mag. Also, it is drak grey in colour. I think I bought dolomite. Would I have problems too much mg if I use it in place of calcitic lime for making potting mix for cannbis? It will be 1part potting mix + 1 part compost (leaves, woodchips,farm manure, kitchen waste, seaweed, brewing waste and topsoil) + 0.5 part leca. I plan on top dressing with gaia green 444 and 284(mostly bone meal) Should I get some calcitic lime snd mix it half and half with the dolomite? I also have some hardwood ash as well. And you said about use 1 cup for a normal potting mix bag. If I'm making 30 gal of soil should I apply about 1.5 to 2 cups of lime?
So it’s mostly time that is the issue. Meat takes awhile to decompose and attracts pests. The meat that you should never compost is raw meat because it can carry deadly bacteria.
Then you have the case of a lot of roadkills period I know of individuals who pick up roadkill and they will put it in the parameter of the plants that they are growing for instance banana plants and so forth As a decays it is going to create that food for that plant you're not putting it directly on the roots you're putting it off to the side as a rots and decomposes the roots of that plant will seek out the broken down ingredients that it needs period and the difference in between the two is amazing. One of the vloggers I watch is an Australian by the name of self-sufficient me and he is all about gardening and he talks about this and his Gardens are very productive and just amazing
I used a large amount on garlic, a few weeks ago now, when the tunnel came off because it works in cool weather when other naturals won't work. Last year I used so much, flies gathered but the garlic was exceptional in size and taste.
Speaking of garlic: for those who are growing carnivorous plants, a good tip for attracting flies like bluebottles would be to apply a little garlic essential oil on a piece of kitchen paper in the vicinity of where the plants are. Certain flies (the types that are attracted to carrion, such as bluebottles, blowflies and greenbottles) are attracted to garlic essential oil. I suppose it is the volatile organosulphur compounds they like.
@@GardeningInCanada Top dressed after the reemay cloth tunnels came off on the fall planted garlic. At the first sign of shoot extension, because big plants are needed before the day length changes.
Maybe you touch on this but I haven't finished yet. Wondering if you have pets if the blood/bone meal will attract them to the plants or if something synthetic is generally less enticing for our carnivorous friends? Thank you!
@@GardeningInCanada I know growing up my grandparents used both in gardens and then always had deer and rabbits etc robbing them blind in the night, and now I'm like "well duh" 😬 I'm going to guess my boring old miracle grow, despite its fun blue colour, does not send out the best sniffs ever to bear and all other types of animals 🤣 if my grandma was still with us I would be calling her right now and she'd be so mad 🤣🤣🤣 she no joke used to sit there with a pellet gun and guard her garden.
@@aileenbell6750 this is good to know as I was considering fish emulsion and was concerned only about myself and the smell (I'm very sensitive), now that I know this and that my dog is a natural hunter it's off my list! Have you tried the plankton ones without a zombie apocalypse?
I mixed blood meal in old soil and compost last year to use this year. It seems the plants that are growing in the blood meal soil are doing the best. They are growing greener, larger, and healthier from anything else growing around my yard.
I mix blood meal in when I’m planting nitrogen heavy feeders like corn, garlic, and onions. Have not noticed burning. I also when transplanting anything put bone meal in the hole. My Granny taught me to do that and water with 10-52-10 and have had great success.
Hey, we’ve received almost 12 tons of bonemeal. Wanted to know the best manner in using it for cardamom plants in our farm. Whether we should compost it (add to the diverse variety of biomass to compost) or add it directly to the plants?
This Is an example of a quality blood meal: geni.us/ZDuUmS
A Non-Amazon option Is this: bit.ly/3Ep2T6a
This makes me think about how the bible says not to eat blood, it actually says to pour it out on the ground, maybe it was the best fertilizer back then, and better used in growing better soil than using as food.
thats so interesting! I would love to do research on ancient agriculture.
Zac
Woops
Ashley I am intensely interested in Ancient Agriculture
Permaculture people are
Big 3 sisters projects testing 3 squash, 4 and bean varieties using Cornell model based on Haudenosaunee
Salinity of blood is about 9 parts per thousand so fairly salty at just under 1/3 the salinity of sea water.
I top dress my raised vegetable beds in the fall with a bone/blood meal mix as I'm putting them to bed. I'll also add a bit of wood ash when we clean out the firepit for the final time in the fall. It gets worked into the top couple' space of inches of soil. I don't do any other fertilizing in my beds, and I grow pretty dense in the space, and I've had really good production.
That’s awesome!
Great video! I absolutely love bloodmeal and use it on tropicals and orchids in very low doses. I have written about organic ferts a bit on my blog too, but am super cautious about advising how much a person uses. I have had many people use too much bloodmeal and kill off roots (or plants entirely)-we’re talking like a heaping tablespoon in a pot. I think the “burning” is maybe more about the cascade affect caused by excessive organic materials decaying and how that influences the pH. As microbes consume those materials, I **ASS-u-me** it results in acidic byproducts and too much of that just plunges the pH below a safe level. So *I think* if you use too much, it can just throw off soil chemistry temporarily which presents as “burn”. I use less than 1/8tsp per 6” pot, and like you mentioned, I mix it with bonemeal, insect frass, greensand and some other goodies.
Interesting!
Do you have an idea on how to judge how much i should use? I use it for my aroid To, but i use 1/8 To 1/4 i think of a table spoon for 5 inch pots, and im about To repot my monstera deliciosa in like a 15-17 inch pots and i dont know how much it need at that size, i want To dose it better and use it more safely!
@@le-auss - err on caution. I would use 1/8 of a teaspoon or even less for anything smaller than a 6” pot. For 8” to 1 gallon, you can get away with a 1/4 tsp. And rather than thinking of it as dosing all at once, just re-apply these small amounts 2-3 times per year. I do a top-soil sprinkling early spring (March), late spring (May), and mid summer (June/July) - and whenever I repot something
@@HerebutNot ok perfect! And i pretty much apply it to every 3-4 month, im just not sur how to dose it for a 17 inch wide pot, maybe half of a tea spoon would be good?
How do u apply it? I wanna try using them on my aroids for more foliage
I suppose you're more a soil scientist than a saleswoman, but you missed talking about one of the uses that I've heard repeated time and again. You mentioned that certain animals will be attracted to that god-awful smell, but what you didn't get into was the common (in Ottawa, anyway) adage that bloodmeal keeps away rodents like squirrels and chipmunks. I can offer an anecdote of it working surprisingly well (and we got amazing spurts of green growth in our houseplants). But, y'know, an annecdote is just that. Any comment? Have you tried it?
(context: Ottawa is OVERRUN with rodents and vermin of all sizes - Geese, pigeons, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, you name it. So everyone here is always asking how to keep away these pests....since if you call animal control to catch them, they will LITERALLY release the animal EXACTLY where they caught it and fine you 200$ for that service)
Thank you for validating my decision on not using bone or blood meal this year.
Being a new gardener, over the last two years I blindly followed "organic gardening techniques", and one of these was using bone and blood meal. It's not overwhelmingly expensive, but I believe it is not necessary in a biologically active soil.
I'm basically going with home made compost, leaf mold and worm casting as soil amendments plus the use of teas and extracts throughout the growing season.
Really enjoy your videos.
Do you plan on ever doing a live feed Q and A ? I think it would be very popular, would love to pick your brain.
I do on occasion! I will do another one soon.
Great video! Last spring we used both blood and bone meal for our pepper plants, and didn’t notice any burning. You’re absolutely right about the critters! Many cilantro plants were lost that season; they were brave and strong, but ultimately overpowered by the brute force of the Canis lupus familiaris, by way of Labrador. Oh another thing, the flies were on par with The Amityville Horror. Think the blood and bone meal were possibly the culprits?
Haha definitely the meal bringing the flies in not the local demons.
I used blood meal when I transplanted our pepper and some of the tomatoes last spring. I didn't see anything good or bad come out of it. No other nutrients, including our rabbit manure, were added. I won't bother with it again. We did use it with bone meal and worked it in around my wife's rose bushes. It did make a difference, but which one? I'm guessing most likely the bone meal. Great info you provided.Enjoyed, take care!
Have to wait for the bone meal video to find out ;). And it may have been beneficial for the roses because that soil was more deficient, It is so hard to say.
I use blood meal all the time for peppers, ocra, and tomatoes. I double the recommended measurements, and never burned a plant.
Those are heavy feeders so I definitely believe that! Good to know about the burning I assumed it was hypothetical conjecture.
I'm first today and Hit the Like Button as ever one should
Thanks for not just today but your many videos.
Haha winner winner!
My dog is really attracted to the bone meal!
I totally believe that. We feed our dogs raw meat and bones so bone meal and blood meal would never work for me.
I think Macka B is the only person you could even consider a cucumber salesman. If you haven’t seen his stuff you should check it out😂
is blood meal good for cannabis?
Yup!
Very interesting video I have a bag fit for years now I don't use it in a long time I try not to use organic fertilizer in the garden Epsom salt sometimes alot of dry banana skins and eggs shells peanut shells crab and lobster shell also tea bags and sometimes I a little coffee grounds
This stuff pongs really bad (at least the brand I used to use here in England). Also, its microbial and fungal breakdown attracted fungus gnats like a magnet! In terms of organic ferts, nowadays I use rabbit manure, bat guano and ground lupin seeds. Rabbit manure does not have the pong associated with bloodmeal. Bat guano has its own 'earthy' and, sometimes, strong ammonia-like odour, which is nowhere near as bad (in my opinion) as the aroma of bloodmeal. There's also the ethics issue: bloodmeal is derived from abbatoirs. I feel uncomfortable using it for this reason. Perhaps I am being hypocritical, as I am not a vegan. Other organic ferts I use include: compost/composted manure and pulverised dried leaf litter. I apply the organic fertiliser as a thin layer of top-dressing, but I never mix it into the aggregate-based growing substrate of my container plants. You see, the fungal and bacterial activity associated with the breakdown of compost and other biodegradable matter can rob roots of oxygen. Compost is ideal for mushrooms (fungi) , but many plants- especially species whose roots require higher oxygen levels- eventually succumb when grown in compost, even if some perlite is added. The microbial acitivity, which competes with the plant's roots for oxygen, can eventually attack the living root tissues. Also, compost- when used as a growing substrate as opposed to a nutrition source- compacts down over time, resulting in the loss of oxygen-containing voids. Soil, such as a sandy loam, is mostly inorganic and based on silica (quartz). Some mistakenly believe that, by mixing biodegrable matter like compost into a sandy soil they end up with a 'rich loam'. Not true! In Nature, organic matter is mostly concentrated as the humus layer- dead plant and animal matter. As fungi and bacteria break down the organic matter, water-soluble nutrients leach down into the mostly inorganic soil strata below, where the plant's roots prefer to be.
Super interesting! I could definitely see bug issues if it’s top dressed
Yesterday I do a big mix I take automn leaves plus residu of the last garden that I cut almost composted all winter in my greenhouse, half of big bag promix with mycorrhize, blood meal, bones meal, bit of salt, cup of sugar, rock dust, homemade banana peel powder and chicken manure I mix all together and spread that everything in the garden 700 feet square
At night I spray on it with a compost tea
In 1 week I will sow and plant the garden
Almost free compost soil
That is awesome!
i was gifted some old boxes of blood and bone meal , i don't use it in my garden so i mixed it in to my compost bin
That’s a really good idea!
That's exactly what I was thinking. Let time do the work.
100%
hello Is it possible to give blood to plants? And the soil does not suffer from worms, fungi and other diseases, and is there a way for this classic method?
WTF. She never actually shows you how to do it. Just gabbing. A waste of time.
I have got some Taro plants in my backyard and I want their leaves to grow bigger and taller. What fertilizer do you recommend?
Nitrogen
Re burning, I had a hole in bag of blood meal and left a line as I carried it across the grass. The grass on that line died and took a year+ to recover. So yes, it can burn.
I used blood meal on my lychee tree and it burned most of the leaves. Can you tell how long it stays in the dirt ? Can blood meal be washed out over time?
I wonder if it was about dried blood vs. applying its dry (it being the potting media). You're correct in that burning usually happens with excessive synthetic fertilizer, but if I remember my course work correctly, burning also can occur if you apply fertilizer when the potting media is dry. This is why as a Horticulturalists we are told to water and then fertilize (even if using water soluble fertilizers).
I think you may also be on to something with salts, but I don't know why to comment.
So the prewater is to solubilize and move out the current salts around the roots prior to adding more.
Early copies of West Coast seeds catalog while it still was called Territorial mentioned not allowing it be on lettuce leaves because of discoloring, perhaps this is the burning mentioned.
Oh interesting! So if it was top dressed and landed on the leaf it caused some form of discolouration?
I put blood meal on my compost pile today, and now it smells like it just got its period. 😂
Human blood has an average sodium content of roughly 140 mEq per liter. I’ve no idea how much salt is required to burn plants or what the average sodium content is in the blood of different livestock, but I would imagine the sodium content of dried blood would be more concentrated than the hydrated form. You might be on to something where it concerns the warnings from the blog posts.
Interesting! So maybe if it’s over applied it could cause issues…. Especially if it’s root placed
I've used (very dilute) fresh urine with no ill-effect on my plants. Urine contains a bit of excreted sodium (as the chloride, I believe). If I am not mistaken, the chloride anion is utilised by plants- in very low concentrations. Of course, in its undiluted (neat) form, I expect urine to have, for all intents and purposes, a herbicidal action (sodium toxicity, undesirable pH alterations associated with the uric acid, urea/ammonium toxicity, etc)
I'm interested in what you do if you don't use blood meal or bone ....
i started using blood meal in my white bird of paradise plants and im definitely eager to gain an opinion on this fertilizer method. but after watching this video, I may mix in some bone meal as well. but it did have my balcony smelly on the first day lol I feel like I may have used too much. Thank you for this video!!
That is awesome!
Yes another video I learn so much from u thank you Ashley for all the videos you make for us I really appreciate it and I know a lot of other people do too you're so honest and down-to-earth I love it
Haha that’s awesome! Glad it was helpful!
I’ve heard that blood meal will sometimes discourage smaller critters, Dogs seem to be curious about the smell but other critters seem to shy away.
Yes! Herbivores hate it
Maybe a lot of the blog posts mentioning burning are churned articles from content mills rather than experiences gardeners? I usually have to get to page 2 or 3 of search results to get to an article that is clearly written by a person who knows the topic rather than by a hired writer who is flipping an article based on other articles for a few cents a word.
Oh yea I think that is likely. My blog ranks for nothing AHAHAHA
I am not 100% sure but I think I may have had it happen in a garden I used blood and bone meal in on my 3rd year. I was using fish emulsion too. It was in my patch for tomatoes for spring summer and fall, and collards for winter
You are referencing the idea of burning?
@@GardeningInCanada yes
I love your stuff. One tip if I may. I would kick it up a notch with a better audio setup.
So I am using my phone for filming and I have a few different mics but they all seem to be junk... If you have a suggestion please let me know! I am open to anything at this point
I dont know but i been bingeing your videos and so far haven't really found much usable info..im not saying it isnt there but i find that it isnt OBVIOUS i guess..like a title that says how to increase microbes. The how to idnt really jump out to me...maybe a recap at the end? I do listen when i out gardening and get distracted a lot...but usually i find the subject in the video...tho im pushing 80 and well...ya know what happens im sure.
.i havent ever heard a gardener say organics burn.....who said that..
I was taught blood meal
.is for leaves and roots...bone meal for flowering...and well didnt find if that was true again ...tho the title didnt really suggest i would.
Personally im.dealing with major evil big infestations and cant find any of the culprits...im up at 2 am again looking for them..i do have a once in a life time infestation of my pecan trees..i.was out there.for about 3 hours and my hair was like someone poured honey on it!!! ..needless to say those little.buggers are dropping down on my.seedlings like crazy..but that isnt the problem in the garden...i have BROKEN down and bought a field guide to bugs. Hoping to id what i assumed where lady bugs...but they might not be. Usually the baby lady bug things are a scary looking.creature with red and black. these have some yellow...
Anyway badically.feeding the algorythm for ya and.taking a quick break from stumbling around in the dark...take care.
What about putting it in the compost?
Love it as Always! Can u make a video in Neem seed meal aka Neem seed cake? It is said to be a god fertilizer and more pesticide than neem oil
I have been seeing this stuff all over! I will look into it and add it to the list.
I jUST bought blood meal for my dahlias, hence, why Im here. But, I have used worm castings for a while now and I thought it burned my dahlias but im thinking maybe it was a coincidence that it got hot the same day...the leaves were burnt the next day, and worm castings are organic also.... Miracle Gro Rose food used as a foliage spray burned the crap out of my dahlias, most of them had to be thrown out, and the rest are stunted... Beware Miracle Gro!!!!
I'm using it to deter squirrels . I have huge squirrel problems. 2 weeks no squirrels so I hope it lasts.
hahah love that!
I impatiently sprinkled some blood meal on top of the soil in some of my house plants and even though it was just about a tablespoon each, when I checked a couple of them a few days later I moved the blood meal around and say SO MANY springtails. I had them before but there were so many little tiny white insects. There were so many that the vermiculite I had on top of all my plants soil (combating fungus gnat infestation) was actually moving in one spot. I think it was from fungus gnat larva. I’ve treated all my plants about 5 times now with mosquito bits and am now using been oil as well.
I even had ants find their way in and set up a colony in one of my plants by a window!!! Wth?!? So crazy lol b
Blood does taste salty
My issue with this is, that we dont know from which animals we get it. Its good to use all of the animal, but many of them were treated bad or were sick or treated with drugs. I guess most of drugs/hormones get eliminated during the process, but who knows.
I love blood meal for my onions,since every leaf on an onion equals a ring on the bulb I use lots of blood meal in my onion patch with a sense of the plants will use what they need. I worry less about over dosing the plants and harming the soil. Works great in the lettuce beds as well. I use wood shavings as mulch so I’ve not had a problem with carbon/nitrogen ratio.
I added bonemeal to potting soil I was mixing. I left the mix in a container with a lid. Few days later, the potting mix became moldy, smelly .
Is there any research on using blood meal in aquaponics?
Not that I know of. But I know the fish waste and a healthy nutrient cycle is the key with any fish setup
I've heard bone meal has high levels of lead and mercury. Are these levels high enough to be concerned leaching through our vegetables? Does blood meal have chemicals as well? New gardener here.
Also lol I have dried kelp I collected last year can I add this to inside plants
Yup! I would compost it first if possible
I applied blood meal and worm castings to my 6 ft tomatoe plant possible to much blood meal but less than 48 hours it's killing my plant leaves and stems are fried but it was was fine with slight signs needing fertilizer b4 hand
My aunt use to use this the bone and blood meal she leant this from old folks from down south she would be over a hundred yrs. . old
As well as very informative, you're very cute 😊❤️
I'm holding blood meal on my peppers and tomatoes around last of month.
Nice!
I don't understand what holding means, maybe spell check changed it from using, or maybe its a northern term...im from the south...
I put fertilizer in my pods to grow my seeds. Is that a hard no? Haha.
Greetings from PEI. I've used Blood Meal in early spring for my 300+ Garlic I grow. It's getting too expensive at this point, so I've decided this year to side dress with Sheep Manure and will wait for results. Garlic is a heavy feeder. I've never had issues with Blood meal burning. I amend my soil with eel grass (Zostera marina) that washes up on the Bay I live near. The salinity is less than the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Gulf is not as saline as the Atlantic ocean. By the time I harvest it, the rain has leached out the salt and the grass breaks down over two years so it works with the blood meal to provide nutrients, mulch and builds soil. Great video , I discovered this channel through Canadian Prepper
Really! How much would you say it’s gone up
@@GardeningInCanada Two years ago I was paying 6.99 for 1.2kg now it's about $14 here
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌻
❤️❤️❤️
Did you say “hello clown people”???
Hope not!
The curtains definitely matchthecarpets
I've been battling spider mites in my house and sun room for over a year now please help
Just when I think they are gone they are not
Oh no. Have you tried predatory mites?
I'd love to try predator mites
What are they and can I buy them
I've looked for Lady bugs in Canada but no luck
The company is Canadian and they are called grub Gernade. th-cam.com/video/xfzN9lRZaXY/w-d-xo.html
This year im trying safer brand 3 in one insecticidal soap...but I haven't yet because I have seen so many ladybugs and hate to take away their food for the sake of a few leaves I really don't mind sharing with nature, I will spray if and when they get out of hand, but Im all for helping nature to thrive as much as possible...
Can I put this on top of the soil for vegetables????
Yup!
@@GardeningInCanada Thank you
Every time I have a plant or amendment question I can count on you for a great understandable answer. Thank you 😊
Haha love that! Always my aim
Hi Ashley! I bought some pelitized lime from home depot. It only stated lime so I assumed it was calcitic. However, when I looked at the back it said 24% cal and 12% mag. Also, it is drak grey in colour. I think I bought dolomite.
Would I have problems too much mg if I use it in place of calcitic lime for making potting mix for cannbis? It will be 1part potting mix + 1 part compost (leaves, woodchips,farm manure, kitchen waste, seaweed, brewing waste and topsoil) + 0.5 part leca. I plan on top dressing with gaia green 444 and 284(mostly bone meal)
Should I get some calcitic lime snd mix it half and half with the dolomite? I also have some hardwood ash as well.
And you said about use 1 cup for a normal potting mix bag. If I'm making 30 gal of soil should I apply about 1.5 to 2 cups of lime?
Honestly it’s probably going to be fine. At most the calcium is going to likely be washed away before the plants can utilize it.
And yea for the potting soil volume you are doing 1.5 to 2 cups should be fine. Since you are doing manure and compost I would lean to 2
@@GardeningInCanada thank you very much!!
A bag of blood meal
You made me smarter. Thanks!
Glad to hear it!
Why are we told not to use meat in compost but blood meal is okay? I'm learning!
So it’s mostly time that is the issue. Meat takes awhile to decompose and attracts pests. The meat that you should never compost is raw meat because it can carry deadly bacteria.
Basically 😂
Then you have the case of a lot of roadkills period I know of individuals who pick up roadkill and they will put it in the parameter of the plants that they are growing for instance banana plants and so forth As a decays it is going to create that food for that plant you're not putting it directly on the roots you're putting it off to the side as a rots and decomposes the roots of that plant will seek out the broken down ingredients that it needs period and the difference in between the two is amazing. One of the vloggers I watch is an Australian by the name of self-sufficient me and he is all about gardening and he talks about this and his Gardens are very productive and just amazing
@@jessicapabon2105 You might be on to something there! Dare I say those types will likely eat the road kill?!
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
I used a large amount on garlic, a few weeks ago now, when the tunnel came off because it works in cool weather when other naturals won't work.
Last year I used so much, flies gathered but the garlic was exceptional in size and taste.
Haha that’s so interesting! Is it placed in the root zone or top dressed?
Speaking of garlic: for those who are growing carnivorous plants, a good tip for attracting flies like bluebottles would be to apply a little garlic essential oil on a piece of kitchen paper in the vicinity of where the plants are. Certain flies (the types that are attracted to carrion, such as bluebottles, blowflies and greenbottles) are attracted to garlic essential oil. I suppose it is the volatile organosulphur compounds they like.
@@GardeningInCanada Top dressed after the reemay cloth tunnels came off on the fall planted garlic.
At the first sign of shoot extension, because big plants are needed before the day length changes.
@@garycard1456 Sounds Yummy!
💚💚
❤️❤️❤️
Awesome
Absolutely ❤
Great upload 👌
Thank you! Cheers!
Maybe you touch on this but I haven't finished yet. Wondering if you have pets if the blood/bone meal will attract them to the plants or if something synthetic is generally less enticing for our carnivorous friends? Thank you!
Oh you do mention it in regards to wildlife. I suppose a dog or cat would act similarly with houseplants. Def not for me since most are toxic 😬
Yeah…my dog rampages whenever I use fish fertilizer so I think Blood Meal is not ideal for my garden. 😜
Your animals will love it 😂 it’s often spayed on dog and cat food to make it more enticing
@@GardeningInCanada I know growing up my grandparents used both in gardens and then always had deer and rabbits etc robbing them blind in the night, and now I'm like "well duh" 😬 I'm going to guess my boring old miracle grow, despite its fun blue colour, does not send out the best sniffs ever to bear and all other types of animals 🤣 if my grandma was still with us I would be calling her right now and she'd be so mad 🤣🤣🤣 she no joke used to sit there with a pellet gun and guard her garden.
@@aileenbell6750 this is good to know as I was considering fish emulsion and was concerned only about myself and the smell (I'm very sensitive), now that I know this and that my dog is a natural hunter it's off my list! Have you tried the plankton ones without a zombie apocalypse?
I mixed blood meal in old soil and compost last year to use this year. It seems the plants that are growing in the blood meal soil are doing the best. They are growing greener, larger, and healthier from anything else growing around my yard.
I’ve most certainly “over” blood mealed my garden right on my plants and have never had any burning ever, not in 7 seasons.
Oh interesting! Good to know
This English language sounds like every sentence you're asking a question. It sounds like you are asking me.
Reading this comment before watching made me enjoy this 100 times more
I mix blood meal in when I’m planting nitrogen heavy feeders like corn, garlic, and onions. Have not noticed burning. I also when transplanting anything put bone meal in the hole. My Granny taught me to do that and water with 10-52-10 and have had great success.
it would be perfect for the heavy feeders! And I suspected that the burning claim was just hypothetical, thanks for confirming this!
Hey, we’ve received almost 12 tons of bonemeal. Wanted to know the best manner in using it for cardamom plants in our farm.
Whether we should compost it (add to the diverse variety of biomass to compost) or add it directly to the plants?