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Blood fish and bone

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  • Buzzy2Buzzy2 Posts: 135
    I think it is the bone meal, I heard this a long time ago!
    Best to be safe then sorry. ;) 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Hi all, I’ve just bought some fish/blood/bonemeal for feeding the roses and cotoneasters...but here in suburbia foxes are in my gardens every night.

    Will covering with a few inches of woodchip mulch help?  I suspect their noses will sniff it out anyway...
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    Mine ignore it Tin, yes you can give that a go for compost on top. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I had to stop using FBB because foxes would dig up the garden, now use Growmore instead.
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    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    More recently it has been concerns about bonemeal and BSE that have brought about the suggestion that it may be sensible to wear gloves when handling it.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    edited April 2018
    In the context of the anthrax scare followed by BSE is how I used the 'more recently' description.......and I think you mean CJD, Freddies Dad - but you have an hour to ediit it!
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    Lovely stuff bonemeal. It seems to have done well for all my pots of last years daffodils which were all put at the back of the borders when they had gone over. I fed them and moved them back onto the patio in late February. They have been spectacular this year. 
    Yes we should probably wear gloves.  



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