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Fertilizer safe for dogs

shsshs Posts: 21
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Hi would value your advice.  I have a 22 month old dog and need to find a safe way of delivering fertilizer to the garden - she eats manure, blood/fish/bone is a huge attraction but would make her really sick.  I haven't viable compost yet.  Has anyone experience of a good dog friendly fertilizer that hopefully she'll just ignore?  many thanks 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Soluble seaweed powder or seaweed liquid that you dilute and water in?



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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited March 2021
    If you dig it in, would she eat the soil? I guess if it was well worked in (the blood/fish/bone) the smell might still cause her to dig, which is a problem for you.

    I would have thought slow release granules would be unappealing and are incorporated in small amounts that she would struggle to eat enough of if it was worked into the ground.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Well rotted manure won't attract her but I cannot use blood fish and bone, bonemeal or chicken poo in any form. The local foxes love it too and dig up everything. I use Growmore. It's not organic but it does not interest the dog or the wildlife, forked in or left on the surface.
  • shsshs Posts: 21
    Thanks very much for your advice.  Thanks I'm going to give Growmore a go - and also look at MiracleGro liquid - could use the spray thingy for liquid seaweed as well I should think.  
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    I use Q4 and haven't noticed animals being attracted to it...in case you need another option. 
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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I haven't heard of Q4. Do you get it at garden centres?
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I agree on the BFB - hopelessly tasty, apparently. I use seaweed and comfrey feeds - they leave them alone
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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Yes it's a Vitax pelletised one @posyhttps://www.gardenworld.co.uk/product/vitax-q4-fertiliser/

    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Vitax Q4 was very much adored by my dogs, may have chicken pellets or something in it. Wouldn’t advise for pet owners. 
  • luis_prluis_pr Posts: 123
    edited March 2021
    Organic meals should be safe but discuss it with your vet anyway. I have used blood meal, cottonseed meal and bone meal with no issues. Coffee grounds too and one of the dogs was actually a coffee lover; she would come into the house smelling like she had tossed herself in the coffee grounds. Hee, hee, hee. I could almost always tell where she had been around by whatever scents she brought back.  ;o))
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