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!
I don't have chickens but I make bone broth from store bought pasture raised organic chicken bones and toss in veggies. The result is a great broth! I've never made bone meal but I want to try. I can't believe I have just been throwing the bones out. Having said that, have you made bone meal? And if so, what order do you go in after your bone broth is done? I'm thinking dehydration then crushing. I don't have a dehydrator so I would just roast them.
@@NamasteTexas I did make bone meal on one occasion by grinding the leftover bones (which were very soft) in my meat grinder. This works, but it can be a time-consuming process and normally I don't bother to make bone meal in this way -- usually I just discard the bones and use the bone broth. When I did make bone meal, I didn't bother to dry the bones first. Instead, I just put them directly into the grinder. This worked fine, but you'll have to apply the bone meal *immediately* to your garden or dry it out somehow before storing it, as the meal contains plenty of moisture. Baking the ground bone meal on a cookie tray, or similar is what I'd probably try. If you don't, you'll end up with a stinking mess (as I discovered!).
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!
my wife and i did the same thing for the wrong reason, we got them for our dogs; next year our half beef bones will become bone meal, the fat suet for the birds. i think K M must be a bit naive about "the who are you feeding with half a beef" comment, in our family it's my wife and i; and my 91 year old mother-in-law, and the friends and family we dine with. we have 2 freezers, K M. that how you feed a half of beef, one meal at a time. idiot!
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.
i'm changing my plans for all our bones now, i'll even go get the ones in the yard that the dogs chewed on; i probably won't make bone broth from those bones, however.
Now that's true homesteading/permaculture Dave....Eat the meat, make broth/stock from the remains, dry the bones for fertilizer! ZERO WASTE! How it should be! :-)
OMG, if I had known how delicious AND nutritious home made bone broth is, I 'd have been doung it for years. Now I can use the bones in the garden after... this is truly brilliant! And I bought a second nutribullet at a yard sale, so now I have one I can dedicate to garden grinds: banana peel, egg shells, and now bones!
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
I tried that one year under 158 tomatoes. Next morning 158 tomato plants dug up and laying on ground with their cages. Raccoons apparently love fish. LOL
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.
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 👍
love that, im going to do the same and make a solar oven. mayaswell use the hot days to my advantage. i dont own a dehydrator and searched coments for alternatives so thanking you!
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!
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!
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.
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@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I wanted to say 'I'm Dead !' but I hesitated. It's probably that and the host of nocturnal gardeners in spirit that labor away for very low wages >
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I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, I have the bones and I've ran them for around 6 hours in a pressure cooker and they're still hard. Any other tips?
I'm new, from march of 21 I had a garden but it's mainly been 22 that my money has gone into it, and as much as I can spare,mainly on compost as I need to fill containers as I physically can't bend to do in ground gardening. So it's all pots and grow bags. Really enjoying it but I struggle with the UK weather,never know it be this dry.only had 10-15mm of rain since march. It's nuts,not even enough rain to fill 100l water butt. Crazy. Usually we moan about UK being wet but not so far. And apparently next week it's gonna go from 22c to 30c+ in 3days. Not looking forward to it tbh as I have seizures brought on by many things but heat being one of them.... And the plants won't be happy with heat like that they will need daily water I expect. ATM they doing ok on every 3 days,but no more. Thanks for your help it's really appreciated
Every weekend I cook myself some slowcooker chicken, and if I have any chicken/steak bones, I always add them in. I found after cooking the bones are pretty tender and fall apart much easier (and my food tastes way better). I already have a dehydrator for beef jerky, so throwing in the cooked bones seems like an eloquent solution. Thank you!
I cook out on a grill during nice weather. I cook a lot of ribs, steaks, chicken, etc., that have bones. I save the bones from one meal and put them in the fire of the next. This cleans, cooks, dehydrates, and makes the bones very friable, that is, easy to pulverize. I then crush the bones into powder and add it to the ashes of the wood fire. Even the bones that don't get totally pulverized are porous enough to let bacteria into the surface to work their magic. So far, so good!
I appreciate how straight forward this video is! I make my own cat food and always have tons of chicken bones left over so I'm glad to finally have a use for them! It always felt so wasteful just throwing then away.
I 💙 how you talk about a plant/ nutrition for the plants then you give us a example of how to do it! Like this video. Like Bone meal making it yourself to prove to us its possible to make it at home while saving money n showing us step by step! Thats y I love ur channel. I have learned so much in the last couple weeks on raising strawberry 🍓 plants and beds. We appreciate all your hard work n we support your channel and of course you!
Thanks so much Catherine! I love that people are taking more of an interest in it and sharing ideas and knowledge passed down. Glad the info is help you and your garden, that makes me happy! :-)
With so much that I feel I must buy for my garden it is so great to learn how to DIY bonemeal. That, and the world’s supply of phosphorus is limited and depleting fast. This is my second try at bonemeal. The first time I didn’t put enough water in the pressure cooker and burned the pot,(but just a bit). But I will not be deterred! You mentioned seaweed fertilizer. Hope you made a video on that! Will check now. Thank you so very much!! I owe my strawberries to you!
I'm right there with you!! Trying to buy as little as possible! For seaweed booster, I DID make the video, check it out!: ua-cam.com/video/fZsZMp-MCDY/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing as it’s a good idea. I learnt from other channels that they buried fish head and I asked my mum to try it out for lady finger plants, it’s just so healthy and grow super well.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Can bones from cooked fish be applied directly to soil after cleaning and drying them? And can that replace the bone meal process?
@@ren.pfa.99 if whole fish is used for fertilizer, I don't see why you would need to "clean" the fish bones. The only drawback would be animals digging them up if they aren't buried deep enough.
Thanks for the video. Is there any reason you can't just bake them in the oven at 225 for an hour rather than leave them in a dehydrator for 12 hours? Sure would save time...
I just use eggshells. Along with banana peels mixed with water ... blend thoroughly then mix with more water add every 2 weeks to your peppers after just starting to bloom. Yep, it works like a charm.
@@ayeshaPH I use vinegar that had eggshells soaked in them to spray my plants and that's what stopped them from dropping their buds so they can finally flower. I suppose the epsom salt also helped. It's really just phosporus that I can't find a good source for. Maybe I'll stop using eggshells when I start using bonemeal, don't want too much calcium.
That's awesome! Buying bone meal isn't cheap. Now I can make my own. I like the mortar and pestle method as I don't want to kill my blender. Thanks for this great vid!
Agree with the prior comment. We always cook the turkey carcass, to get the bone broth, for making turkey soup. Always discard the bones when done, but this is a great way to not waste anything. Appreciate your channel, as I am so, so sick of this political BS. Need to get back to real life. Thank you. BTW, have a little over 1 month to go on my "garlic in the fridge" experiment.
Appreciate that! I'm glad so many people see the value in just not wasting stuff and squeezing everything you can to be as self sufficient as possible. Have a great weekend! :-)
I use a pressure cooker. It works much faster to soften the bones and I can usually liquefy them in a blender. Another trick is to get a cheap garbage disposal and hook it to a sink stand outdoors. Then after you pressure cook the bones, you can quickly run them through the disposal into a five gallon bucket. I usually pour the liquefied bones in my garden. Bones seem to never compost by themselves, so I found pressure cooking them take care of that.
That does look easy. I don't have a pressure cooker or Insta-pot. I have a slow cooker. For me, long cooking is not a problem. How long would it take to soften the bones in a slow cooker? My food dehydrator is over 25 years old and only has two settings On and Off. It still works.
I find it takes about 36 to 48 hours of slow cooking (barely a simmer) to get my chicken bones soft enough to cut with kitchen scissors. When making bone broth, I go a minimum of 3 days anyway...
Thank you for making this informative video. I have implemented most of the methods you demonstrated in your video to make bone powder out of poultry bones for m my dog’s homemade food, only because I do not give them intact bones, as that could damage their intestines. I have large dogs, and I make a lot of dog food, so I work with large batches of bones at a time. The process is time consuming, and thus using a mortar and pestle would take too long. So, after boiling, I dehydrate first, and then pulverize in two steps. First, in my back up Ninja blender for coarse chopping. Then, in my backup KRUPS spice grinder for a finer powder. Both appliances have survived multiple pulverizing batches so far. Afterwards, I am able to store the bone powder and use it for each batch of homemade dog food. So, my dogs are getting their calcium and phosphorus right back into their food, in proper measurement, of course. And, if I have any extra, I suppose it can go into my garden! But, I usually don’t. The bone powder just keeps getting rotated between my batches of dog food. Thank you, once again!
Hell yeah man your video was spot on it was detailed and we got straight to the point without a bunch of BS good knowledge to know and yes I agree wholeheartedly with adding the other amendments . I do the same thing and also use worm castings and then I inoculate my biochar with a plethora of all the different homemade amendments . I've been doing all of my own fertilizers and vermicomposting for a year now it's been amazing knowledge and also repurpose a tremendous amount of waste that used to go in the trash and now it's saving me money Period Super stoked For this upcoming spring Gotta get through winter first though.. LOL that's all right though I feel like a mad scientist these days making all of my different concoctions and whatnot.. LOL
I think even the sun would work, if its warm enough.....certainly an oven on its lowest setting would also work. I've seen people chuck bones in the fire as well!
Just subbed. Ive been spreadinf both BONE MEAL and BLOOD MEAL in the bottom of my Cannabis holes for planting years-i didnt last year and truly regret it as flowers wer looser than ever...
I'm interested to know if you can use fish bones as they are easier to work with. They probably have additional nutrients which won't be available in animal bones.
This is a pretty good video. If you'd accept some feedback, I'd just like to advise to give a bit more dynamic to the tone you say your sentences. So they all have a similar tone, which is okay for a short couple of sentences, but listen back to it and the tone of your sentences repeat far too often for one whole video. It may tire out people watching you. But this was still super informative and extremely clear to me. Hope to see more of your content!
Awesome tip. I actually just throw mines in the air fryer or oven, and start smashing it and grinding it in a motar and pestle. The motar and pestle that we use for southeast asian cooking is pretty heavy duty, so that's how I'm able to save on hours of preparation.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Haha I have no idea about the quantity that I'm using. I kinda just eyeball it and hope for the best. So far, it's been working out. I actually had no idea what benefits bone meal had for plants until I watched your video 😅 I'm the type that just tries to return organic life back into Earth. Your videos have definitely been super helpful, and I've been learning a lot. Keep up the great work! Oh and I top dress it, Lol. Though I should probably start mixing it in now.
Thank you very much for sharing this with us! I live in Dominican Republic and have been trying to find bone meal for my fig trees and haven't been able to find any.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms in the past, I put chicken bones in the oven and they weighed literally nothing after a few hours...then I just put them in a glass blender and had super fine powder
Want to add if you don't want to use the electricity for the dehydrator, I use my farm trucks in hot weather to dehydrate and as a green house in the spring to start plants.
Before I mulched my food forest I would dump the bones straight on the ground after making bone broth. They would be gone after mowing a couple of times. This probably wasn’t safest way to do this but they would also bake in the sun. Now I just plan on breaking it up into smaller pieces and spreading it on top of the mulch. I figured it would break down over time. 😂
Appreciated for your method my friend. I have tried many times to burn it and grind, but not sure whether this method is destroy its quality or not. Thank you.
I don't think burning will affect the Phosphorus, which is mainly what we're after. I would think a combination of wood ash and bone ash would definitely be a potent Phosphorus boost!
When you are heating your charcoal grill, put the bones, even with meat bits, along the sides of the charcoal. They'll dry out quickly, and you can remove them from the grill before cooking your food. Freeze your used bones in a plastic bag in your freezer to accumulate them without them getting nasty too.
Many thanks for the information on how to do your own bone meal. I certainly implement making my own bone meal now as it is something that I have not seen in our stores where the agri stuff are sold in my country or if it is available it's could be very expensive. After watching your video I feel so sad that I threw away the bones in the garbage or given to some stray dogs. However, I dump the cooked fish bones into my compost as they are soft and takes little time to decay. What is your opinion about that? is it recommended? I have not thrown in the chicken bones or meat bones as I don't want to encourage rodents into the compost or to my garden. Appreciate your comments.
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do you dry out the meat and use it too? or discard it?
@@bobshagit-io8lq try not to waste anything,!
Any substitute for dehydrtor
@@inaya_123 just let them bake in the sun!
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!
I don't have chickens but I make bone broth from store bought pasture raised organic chicken bones and toss in veggies. The result is a great broth! I've never made bone meal but I want to try. I can't believe I have just been throwing the bones out.
Having said that, have you made bone meal? And if so, what order do you go in after your bone broth is done?
I'm thinking dehydration then crushing. I don't have a dehydrator so I would just roast them.
@@NamasteTexas I did make bone meal on one occasion by grinding the leftover bones (which were very soft) in my meat grinder. This works, but it can be a time-consuming process and normally I don't bother to make bone meal in this way -- usually I just discard the bones and use the bone broth.
When I did make bone meal, I didn't bother to dry the bones first. Instead, I just put them directly into the grinder. This worked fine, but you'll have to apply the bone meal *immediately* to your garden or dry it out somehow before storing it, as the meal contains plenty of moisture. Baking the ground bone meal on a cookie tray, or similar is what I'd probably try. If you don't, you'll end up with a stinking mess (as I discovered!).
Killing 3 birds with one stone: Bone broth, bone meal and tallow.
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!
who are you feeding with half a cow 😮
my wife and i did the same thing for the wrong reason, we got them for our dogs; next year our half beef bones will become bone meal, the fat suet for the birds. i think K M must be a bit naive about "the who are you feeding with half a beef" comment, in our family it's my wife and i; and my 91 year old mother-in-law, and the friends and family we dine with. we have 2 freezers, K M. that how you feed a half of beef, one meal at a time. idiot!
@@dougreynolds2813 you don't need to call people names. That's very juvenile. Grow up.
@@dougreynolds2813Calling someone an idiot was really uncalled for,he just asked a simple question,smh...
@chubnouba23 Yeah there wasn't any need for that,smh...
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.
Try to render the bones down in a firepit....adding it and Alfalfa Meal to compost.....Amazing stuff!!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms but that wastes the amazing and delicious bone broth! Great video! Subd!
@@garthwunsch cheers Garth!
i'm changing my plans for all our bones now, i'll even go get the ones in the yard that the dogs chewed on; i probably won't make bone broth from those bones, however.
Great idea! We always save bones to make bone broth / stock already. This gives us one more use of our scraps!!!
Now that's true homesteading/permaculture Dave....Eat the meat, make broth/stock from the remains, dry the bones for fertilizer! ZERO WASTE! How it should be! :-)
Same! We usually make bone broth weekly in our Instant pot now I can use the bones too! (and maybe the damn bears will stop getting into our garbage!)
@@heatherjolly8389 Love it! Self sufficiency at its finest!! :-)
OMG, if I had known how delicious AND nutritious home made bone broth is, I 'd have been doung it for years. Now I can use the bones in the garden after... this is truly brilliant! And I bought a second nutribullet at a yard sale, so now I have one I can dedicate to garden grinds: banana peel, egg shells, and now bones!
@@joanies6778 totally. Bone Broth and then Bone Meal afterwards... Nothing goes to waste!
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
Outstanding James! Love it!
Ah, fish carcasses, also a great idea.
I bury overstock from my pond under my plants and it's miraculous how well they do, I don't even have to fertilize my Corn.
I tried that one year under 158 tomatoes. Next morning 158 tomato plants dug up and laying on ground with their cages. Raccoons apparently love fish. LOL
@@redstone1999 might i recomend somethi g that likes racoons, like a 12gauge.
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.
Thanks so much William...too kind! 🙂
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 👍
love that, im going to do the same and make a solar oven. mayaswell use the hot days to my advantage. i dont own a dehydrator and searched coments for alternatives so thanking you!
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!
Bone meal is great for dogs too, a necessity in fact
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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!
Give it a try Dee, let us know how it goes!
Minecraft teaches kids so many things! My 10year old cousin could recognise my amethyst necklace and the axolotl species I was watching a video about.
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.
Thank you!! I won’t be throwing the bones away anymore after making broth!!
Definitely! Waste not want not! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Seriously! How can you not make use of it? I just need to get a mortar and pestle!
@@SaphsContainerGarden Definitely! You can use a hammer and a cloth bag...that also works in the meantime. :-)
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Cool, I'll have to try that Niko!
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Exactly!!! I truly believe I'll grow my best tomatoes after I'm dead.....LOL!!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I wanted to say 'I'm Dead !' but I hesitated. It's probably that and the host of nocturnal gardeners in spirit that labor away for very low wages >
@@flauwegeit Ha ha exactly!
Haha morbid but I read forage in the graveyard.
@@tacowolf3198 It's not a bad idea, What's for dinner ? An all season salad of graveyard flowers >
don't forget the wonderful bone broth you have just made
I'm also now grinding egg shell and dried out bannanas.
Thanks Jeff so much teaching
I've never thought of this. Turning "trash" into treasure! Love it, thank you!
Totally! That's a perfect way to look at it!
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What if use the bone broth as a liquid form of firtilizer?
I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong, I have the bones and I've ran them for around 6 hours in a pressure cooker and they're still hard. Any other tips?
@@arezhik7774 just let them dry out... Like get REALLY dry and brittle...
I'm new, from march of 21 I had a garden but it's mainly been 22 that my money has gone into it, and as much as I can spare,mainly on compost as I need to fill containers as I physically can't bend to do in ground gardening. So it's all pots and grow bags.
Really enjoying it but I struggle with the UK weather,never know it be this dry.only had 10-15mm of rain since march. It's nuts,not even enough rain to fill 100l water butt. Crazy. Usually we moan about UK being wet but not so far. And apparently next week it's gonna go from 22c to 30c+ in 3days. Not looking forward to it tbh as I have seizures brought on by many things but heat being one of them.... And the plants won't be happy with heat like that they will need daily water I expect. ATM they doing ok on every 3 days,but no more.
Thanks for your help it's really appreciated
Every weekend I cook myself some slowcooker chicken, and if I have any chicken/steak bones, I always add them in. I found after cooking the bones are pretty tender and fall apart much easier (and my food tastes way better). I already have a dehydrator for beef jerky, so throwing in the cooked bones seems like an eloquent solution.
Thank you!
Perfect use case then! :-)
Thank you for this! I have been dehydrating and powdering banana peels and eggshells. I hadn't thought about using bones.
It’s amazing how everything can be reused!! Thank 🤩
Truly barbara! The garden is the ultimate cycle of life!
I cook out on a grill during nice weather. I cook a lot of ribs, steaks, chicken, etc., that have bones. I save the bones from one meal and put them in the fire of the next. This cleans, cooks, dehydrates, and makes the bones very friable, that is, easy to pulverize. I then crush the bones into powder and add it to the ashes of the wood fire. Even the bones that don't get totally pulverized are porous enough to let bacteria into the surface to work their magic. So far, so good!
That's the perfect way to do it! So easy, no waste!
Sounds like a form of biochar!
I didn't know it would be that easy to make. Thank you!
It really is. Once dried into a powder, lasts forever as well! :-)
I appreciate how straight forward this video is! I make my own cat food and always have tons of chicken bones left over so I'm glad to finally have a use for them! It always felt so wasteful just throwing then away.
Thank you for spending your time to teach us all of this info
@@JosiahC-p7c cheers Josiah, thanks for watching
Might be my fav vid so far. Excellent explanation/demonstration. Thank you and Happy New Year!
Thanks London, really appreciate that!! :-)
I 💙 how you talk about a plant/ nutrition for the plants then you give us a example of how to do it! Like this video. Like Bone meal making it yourself to prove to us its possible to make it at home while saving money n showing us step by step! Thats y I love ur channel. I have learned so much in the last couple weeks on raising strawberry 🍓 plants and beds. We appreciate all your hard work n we support your channel and of course you!
Thanks so much Catherine! I love that people are taking more of an interest in it and sharing ideas and knowledge passed down. Glad the info is help you and your garden, that makes me happy! :-)
With so much that I feel I must buy for my garden it is so great to learn how to DIY bonemeal. That, and the world’s supply of phosphorus is limited and depleting fast. This is my second try at bonemeal. The first time I didn’t put enough water in the pressure cooker and burned the pot,(but just a bit). But I will not be deterred! You mentioned seaweed fertilizer. Hope you made a video on that! Will check now. Thank you so very much!! I owe my strawberries to you!
I'm right there with you!! Trying to buy as little as possible! For seaweed booster, I DID make the video, check it out!: ua-cam.com/video/fZsZMp-MCDY/v-deo.html
I did this last week. Didn't know there was a video on it. I hate waste and my iris plants are going to love this.
Right on! Good to hear!
Thanks for sharing as it’s a good idea. I learnt from other channels that they buried fish head and I asked my mum to try it out for lady finger plants, it’s just so healthy and grow super well.
For sure Haley....fish was likely the original organic fertilizer for coastal agriculture! Plants love it!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Can bones from cooked fish be applied directly to soil after cleaning and drying them? And can that replace the bone meal process?
@@ren.pfa.99 if whole fish is used for fertilizer, I don't see why you would need to "clean" the fish bones. The only drawback would be animals digging them up if they aren't buried deep enough.
Thank you. I just finished roasting, then cooking 38 hrs in a crock pot. Now, to the dehydrator!
Thanks for the video. Is there any reason you can't just bake them in the oven at 225 for an hour rather than leave them in a dehydrator for 12 hours? Sure would save time...
You sir are the champion, my frin. Legendary content.
I just use eggshells. Along with banana peels mixed with water ... blend thoroughly then mix with more water add every 2 weeks to your peppers after just starting to bloom. Yep, it works like a charm.
Awesome! Keeping doing what works for you!
Do eggshells have enough phosporus?
@@nunyabiznes33 mostly calcium. I learnd to use banana peals with egg shells in a blender to feed my plants. And they LOVE IT!
@@ayeshaPH I use vinegar that had eggshells soaked in them to spray my plants and that's what stopped them from dropping their buds so they can finally flower. I suppose the epsom salt also helped. It's really just phosporus that I can't find a good source for.
Maybe I'll stop using eggshells when I start using bonemeal, don't want too much calcium.
@@nunyabiznes33 Yes i forgot ... the epsom salt 1tls per 4 leters you are correct. This does help cirtian plants bloom.
I have been wondering whether bones can use as fertilizer. I finally I got your video.
Thanks a lot. I'll try soon.
Best of luck Garenda!
That's awesome! Buying bone meal isn't cheap. Now I can make my own. I like the mortar and pestle method as I don't want to kill my blender. Thanks for this great vid!
Awesome man, glad you caught this video! It really is easy and cheap to make! Cheers
Go to the thrift store and get a blender for a couple of dollars make it your garden blender
I make bone broth already so now I will take those bones and turn them into bone meal - thanks!! Much appreciated!
My plants will be really happy after this 😊
Cheers!
Thanks for this info! I can't tell you how much I've thrown out after making bone broth. You're right, the small bones can be smushed with your hands.
OMG!!!!! I just love you!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS SHARING AMAZING CONTENT!!!!!
Ha ha thanks rhonda! Super appreciate that! Share with your gardener friends! Have a great great weekend!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I sure will!!!!!
@@rhondamoffit6490 thanks so much!
I simply LOVE your direct simple language tips, I am happy that I subscribe to your channel peace!
Cheers Mohannad, thanks so much for watching and for the support!
Another Great Amendment Indeed Jeff, That’s good to know, Thanks for another interesting video. 🙏🇨🇦
Thanks Seddy! I'm excited mostly to add it to me seeding mixtures this winter....really get a killer germination mix going! Cheers to you. :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms That’s gonna be an additional killa miracle portion for your germination indeed.🙏🇨🇦
@@Pubgfetiz Definitely!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms ❤️
And here I’ve been grinding up eggshells. I’ll have to try this will all the chicken bones I have. Thank you!
So happy I found your video! I knew there was a way. We all need to expand our own fertilizers these days.
Agree with the prior comment. We always cook the turkey carcass, to get the bone broth, for making turkey soup. Always discard the bones when done, but this is a great way to not waste anything. Appreciate your channel, as I am so, so sick of this political BS. Need to get back to real life. Thank you. BTW, have a little over 1 month to go on my "garlic in the fridge" experiment.
Appreciate that! I'm glad so many people see the value in just not wasting stuff and squeezing everything you can to be as self sufficient as possible. Have a great weekend! :-)
Xx
Thank you. I will use this in my raised beds.
Cheers, best of luck!
I use a pressure cooker. It works much faster to soften the bones and I can usually liquefy them in a blender. Another trick is to get a cheap garbage disposal and hook it to a sink stand outdoors. Then after you pressure cook the bones, you can quickly run them through the disposal into a five gallon bucket. I usually pour the liquefied bones in my garden. Bones seem to never compost by themselves, so I found pressure cooking them take care of that.
Thank you. This video answered my questions.
Cheers, thanks for watching! :-)
That does look easy. I don't have a pressure cooker or Insta-pot. I have a slow cooker. For me, long cooking is not a problem. How long would it take to soften the bones in a slow cooker? My food dehydrator is over 25 years old and only has two settings On and Off. It still works.
Hey Donna, slow cooker works as well. On the high setting, you're probably look at over night at least. 12 hours? Maybe more.
I find it takes about 36 to 48 hours of slow cooking (barely a simmer) to get my chicken bones soft enough to cut with kitchen scissors. When making bone broth, I go a minimum of 3 days anyway...
Thank you for making this informative video. I have implemented most of the methods you demonstrated in your video to make bone powder out of poultry bones for m my dog’s homemade food, only because I do not give them intact bones, as that could damage their intestines. I have large dogs, and I make a lot of dog food, so I work with large batches of bones at a time. The process is time consuming, and thus using a mortar and pestle would take too long. So, after boiling, I dehydrate first, and then pulverize in two steps. First, in my back up Ninja blender for coarse chopping. Then, in my backup KRUPS spice grinder for a finer powder. Both appliances have survived multiple pulverizing batches so far. Afterwards, I am able to store the bone powder and use it for each batch of homemade dog food. So, my dogs are getting their calcium and phosphorus right back into their food, in proper measurement, of course. And, if I have any extra, I suppose it can go into my garden! But, I usually don’t. The bone powder just keeps getting rotated between my batches of dog food. Thank you, once again!
Hell yeah man your video was spot on it was detailed and we got straight to the point without a bunch of BS good knowledge to know and yes I agree wholeheartedly with adding the other amendments . I do the same thing and also use worm castings and then I inoculate my biochar with a plethora of all the different homemade amendments . I've been doing all of my own fertilizers and vermicomposting for a year now it's been amazing knowledge and also repurpose a tremendous amount of waste that used to go in the trash and now it's saving me money Period Super stoked For this upcoming spring Gotta get through winter first though.. LOL that's all right though I feel like a mad scientist these days making all of my different concoctions and whatnot.. LOL
This is so helpful! I’m going to try making my own bone meal. Thank you for another great video 😀
Right on Brooklyn, best of luck! :-)
Thanks i badly needed it.. your method is the best.
Cheers! Thanks for watching!
Awesome Video. Really enjoyed watching.
Thanks Shawn, appreciate the support!
Thanks a lot because in where I live it's very difficult to get bone meal.
But what is another option for a dehydrator😁
I think even the sun would work, if its warm enough.....certainly an oven on its lowest setting would also work. I've seen people chuck bones in the fire as well!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms oh sun is not a problem in where I live 😂😂 . ( Africa)
@@aguywithoutaname 😂
@@engell3707 😂😂
Very cool! We'll done, I'll be sure to try this!
Just subbed. Ive been spreadinf both BONE MEAL and BLOOD MEAL in the bottom of my Cannabis holes for planting years-i didnt last year and truly regret it as flowers wer looser than ever...
Well explained!
Cheers from India 🇮🇳
I'm interested to know if you can use fish bones as they are easier to work with. They probably have additional nutrients which won't be available in animal bones.
For sure. I suspect that's what most fish meal fertilizers are made from!
I'm impressed with this video👍
This is a pretty good video. If you'd accept some feedback, I'd just like to advise to give a bit more dynamic to the tone you say your sentences. So they all have a similar tone, which is okay for a short couple of sentences, but listen back to it and the tone of your sentences repeat far too often for one whole video. It may tire out people watching you. But this was still super informative and extremely clear to me. Hope to see more of your content!
Cheers, thanks for watching! :-)
Shout out here from philippines thank you for this video,🤗🤗
Fantastic video!
Awesome! Now I know what to do with all the leftover bones from my pho. Thank you!
Now I know what to do with my chicken bones. Thank you
Definitely! Those bird bones just disintegrate into powder so easily too!
Pretty energy intensive process.
Thanks for sharing it was helpful ✌️
Thanks for sharing, I will be saving some money 😊
Right on Caroline! :-)
Awesome tip. I actually just throw mines in the air fryer or oven, and start smashing it and grinding it in a motar and pestle.
The motar and pestle that we use for southeast asian cooking is pretty heavy duty, so that's how I'm able to save on hours of preparation.
Nice work! How much do you use? Do you mix it in or just top dress?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Haha I have no idea about the quantity that I'm using. I kinda just eyeball it and hope for the best. So far, it's been working out. I actually had no idea what benefits bone meal had for plants until I watched your video 😅
I'm the type that just tries to return organic life back into Earth.
Your videos have definitely been super helpful, and I've been learning a lot. Keep up the great work!
Oh and I top dress it, Lol. Though I should probably start mixing it in now.
Ok… how did I not know this until now?? Thank you.
My friend just bought half a cow. Gonna have to grab up some of the bones.
Bone meal for a lifetime!
Thank you very much for sharing this with us!
I live in Dominican Republic and have been trying to find bone meal for my fig trees and haven't been able to find any.
Right on Merquiades, you can also use a fire pit tp dry out the bones as well. :-)
I go deep sea fishing throughout the year and always bury the bones all over my garden....works so well
Perfect! Historically a great way to add nutrients back into the garden!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I find the fish bones/heads bread down very quickly/naturally.
@@TheActiveLifeLived definitely a lot faster than beef or chicken bones
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms in the past, I put chicken bones in the oven and they weighed literally nothing after a few hours...then I just put them in a glass blender and had super fine powder
This is a fantastic video. Thank you!
Cheers Matthew, thanks so much for watching and for the support! :-)
Want to add if you don't want to use the electricity for the dehydrator, I use my farm trucks in hot weather to dehydrate and as a green house in the spring to start plants.
It was so useful. Very well explained.
This will help since I'm a deer hunter and eat a lot of other meat with bones.
The last bone broth I made I just threw them in the garbage. I didn't even think of the garden. Thanks.
Perfect! Now I am motivated to clean out the crawlspace under my house.
Yikes, what lives down there?
Before I mulched my food forest I would dump the bones straight on the ground after making bone broth. They would be gone after mowing a couple of times. This probably wasn’t safest way to do this but they would also bake in the sun. Now I just plan on breaking it up into smaller pieces and spreading it on top of the mulch. I figured it would break down over time. 😂
So I wonder if you could use the bones for bone broth first and then turn them into bone meal! I can’t wait to try this out!
Great tips for hunter/farmers
:-)
Appreciated for your method my friend. I have tried many times to burn it and grind, but not sure whether this method is destroy its quality or not. Thank you.
I don't think burning will affect the Phosphorus, which is mainly what we're after. I would think a combination of wood ash and bone ash would definitely be a potent Phosphorus boost!
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Good information Thank you sir
Cheers Tufail. :-)
When you are heating your charcoal grill, put the bones, even with meat bits, along the sides of the charcoal. They'll dry out quickly, and you can remove them from the grill before cooking your food. Freeze your used bones in a plastic bag in your freezer to accumulate them without them getting nasty too.
Nice video - very informative and to the point! I guess I should have been saving more bones!
Thanks for sharing.
If you have a sun oven. You can dehydrate it for free! Great vid 👍
So true! And nothing beats free! :-)
Tks for sharing this information with us
Cheers, thanks for watching! Happy growing!
Thanks a lot for video 🎉
Is any bone nutritional value list by dehydrating the bones? Or does dehydrating make it softer
Great video, I always burn the bones and use the ash as It's less smelly than cooking, and saves electricity.
100%. That's the traditional way to do it, and if you have an outdoor fire pit, one of the best ways. Plus wood ash is also good for the garden! :)
How do you burn them? Like what is the process?
@@flourgirl08 I burn them in my fire pit and sprinkle the ashes over the bed before watering.
@@shanewest7731 How do you burn them in the fire pit? Do you put anything else in there with them?
@@flourgirl08 Wood and newspaper to start the fire, then add bones when you've got a good blaze going.
Thanks!
Cheers!
From what I can find, bone meal is also a good supplement to pet food.
Many thanks for the information on how to do your own bone meal. I certainly implement making my own bone meal now as it is something that I have not seen in our stores where the agri stuff are sold in my country or if it is available it's could be very expensive. After watching your video I feel so sad that I threw away the bones in the garbage or given to some stray dogs. However, I dump the cooked fish bones into my compost as they are soft and takes little time to decay. What is your opinion about that? is it recommended? I have not thrown in the chicken bones or meat bones as I don't want to encourage rodents into the compost or to my garden. Appreciate your comments.
Thank you for your informative video. Now I will make bone meal at home!!
Cheers Mia! :-)
Excellent presentation 👍🙏
Where to buy your mortar?
I love your mortar and pestle. Can you tell me where you got it?
Thanks
Cheers!