How To Make Bone Meal

Make Your Own Bone Meal! Bone Meal is one of the most popular soil amendments for vegetable and flower gardeners around the world. Use as a rich source of Phosphorus as well as Calcium, Bone Meal as a slow-release organic amendment is very effective in getting the most out of your plants.

While readily available at most stores, it is also easy to make yourself! In this video I’ll show you the 4 steps it takes to make your own Bone Meal, as well as how to apply it to your favorite crops. Make sure to like and subscribe, its gardeners like you that make this channel possible!

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[andreafalconiero]

Very good video! I'm surprised however that when you were talking about pressure-cooking bones you didn't mention the most important reason to do this, which is to produce *bone broth* as a base for soups, stews, etc. Yes, the leftover bones are great for making bone meal, but for me at least they are a _byproduct_ of making bone broth. If you're going to use the energy required to pressure-cook for 2+ hours, you may as well get the full benefit of the process, by using the results for both for yourself and your plants!

[flauwegeit]

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[auntmayme]

I have to follow up to my previous comment. I tried this today and I’m so impressed! I had some turkey bones in the bottom of my freezer to use as soup. I pulled them out, boiled them for broth for eight hours and make turkey and bean soup from the broth. Then I put the bones in my dehydrator. Twelve hours later, I put them in the blender and they ground up perfectly. Of course, I had the Naysayers and the Doomsday Dudes telling me it wasn’t “cost efficient”, but there’s a tradeoff. While I am using a dehydrator for 12 hours, I realize in the end I’m giving back to Mother Earth what she gave to me. And it is cost effective, because the bones would have ended up in the landfill otherwise. Thank you so much for this video! I’m going to pull out all the bags of bones in my freezer and get started on more. There’s only so much soup one can make and working with the byproducts in this way is so incredibly sustainable.

[jamestboehm]

I've found that after I fillet spring catfish the left over carcass buried under tomato and pepper plants can grow double size. Had peppers that grew over 5' last year and produced 2-3 times the normal crop. Just one of my tricks

[ahjort]

I'm totally doing this! We just bought a half a cow and I asked the butcher for the bones as well. My original plan was for the gut healthy bone broth, but I love this final step as to not let anything go to waste! Thanks for the incredibly helpful tutorial!

[OakKnobFarm]

Great idea! We always save bones to make bone broth / stock already. This gives us one more use of our scraps!!!

[TheMillionDollarDropout]

I used to like the term “use every part of the chicken” but this takes it to a whole new level. Thank you gardening. Now I don’t have to waste 20+ lbs. of chicken bones a year. I’m going to have so much bone meal for my plants from now on. It will help to revitalize the crap out of my old/used soil!


I just read that someone uses Bone Meal and Alfalfa meal to do this and their soil comes outs amazing by the time spring rolls around, ready for plants again. Composting is already good enough! I can only imagine how much more healthy my soil will be once I add this stuff.

[VULXRIL]

I'm starting my own business pray for me guys

[deehermione]

Here researching bone meal because my 9 year old told me that I should give my potted plants some to grow faster... because that's what he does in minecraft😂
I'm new to gardening, had no idea that this was even a thing!

[thatguychris]

Great content! For the cheap people like me, boil the bones over an outdoor fire then dehydrate them in a home-made solar oven for an entire day or two. Zero energy costs 👍

[crzyjck]

Here's a tip - if you live in an area with hot, dry summers, you can simply spread your cooked, broken bones on a cloth on the roof / in the garden and let the sun dry them out for you! No need to run your dehydrator - after all, you don't need to worry about the bones decomposing or breaking down, since that's the whole idea, anyway!

[TheJakeRobinson]

I'm sure someone has already pointed this out... you are 1/2 to making bone broth - add some other ingredients, onion, carrots, and celery and pressure cook them with the bones, add additional filtered water and when you're done, strain and keep the bone broth - super-healthy and delicious... now do the rest with your bones to feed your garden...😎

[monthapril]

Genesis 3:19
till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

[lavrynthos]

Also, take the dried powder, mix it with vinegar and let it sit for 3-4 days until it stops fizzing. You can use the resulting concentrated phosphorus+calcium fertilizer as foilar feeding at 1/1000 dillution

[michelledelkel]

I don't eat meat, but I do cook it for my dogs and this will help not only my garden but my conscious knowing the chickens are not going to waste. I had the thought a while ago but found your video to be super helpful in how to go about it. Thank you!

[SaphsContainerGarden]

Thank you!! I won’t be throwing the bones away anymore after making broth!!

[williamcox]

Yet again we are presented with unique content presented in a straight forward and pleasant manner. And as always, watching was time well spent. Your channel has become the go-to reference that I will always check when researching a gardening topic.

[yahushaismyshepherd]

Had an outstanding garden this year. Amended my soil with bonemeal and seaweed.

Thank you for this video. Bonemeal was pricey. Going to give this a whirl. Just processed 15 chickens today. So going to give it a go.

[kskorner]

don't forget the wonderful bone broth you have just made

[deebirdwell]

Jeff, I just wanted to say thank you for this video on making bone meal. I watched this a couple months ago and have since made 2 batches of homemade bone meal. Turns out the tasks are not bad at all and I feel really good about not spending money on a product that I can make myself. Results have been great, I have happy sub artic tomato plants and my Bella Rosa tomato plants flowered greatly. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you from Tampa Bay Florida.