How to make your own organic fertilizer with crushed bones
🌿 How to make your own organic fertilizer with crushed bones
Chemical fertilizers are not only expensive, but they can also contaminate the soil in the long run. A sustainable, economical, and powerful alternative is Create your own organic fertilizer from crushed bones.
In this article we teach you how to make homemade bone meal, rich in phosphorus and calcium, ideal for improving flowering, rooting and the health of your crops.
🦴 Why use crushed bones as fertilizer?
Animal bones contain calcium triphosphate, phosphorus, and other minerals essential for plant growth. When properly crushed and processed, a fertilizer is obtained slow release that:
Improves soil structure
Promotes root development
Stimulates the production of flowers and fruits
It is 100% natural and ecological
Besides, you reuse waste and you reduce your dependence on industrial fertilizers, which helps you save money and protect the environment.
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🛠️ What do you need?
To produce fertilizer from bones you need:
✔️ Clean bones (cow, pork, chicken, etc.)
✔️ A bone crusher (can be industrial or manual, depending on the volume)
✔️ Durable containers
✔️ Optional: high-temperature oven for carbonizing
🔄 Step by step: how to make organic bone meal
1. Cleaning the bones
Remove any leftover meat or fat to prevent unpleasant odors or infections. You can boil them and let them dry in the sun or oven.
2. Trituration
Put the dry bones into a grinder. The goal is to reduce them to small particles or dust, depending on use. If you use a industrial shredder like this one, the process is quick and clean.
3. Sterilization (optional but recommended)
You can heat the fragments in an oven at over 130°C for 30 minutes to kill bacteria.
4. Fine grinding
Grind further (if necessary) until you get a floury texture. The finer the grind, the better it will blend with the soil.
5. Storage
Store in a dry, sealed, and labeled container. Store in a cool, dark place.
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Directly to the ground: Sprinkle around plants before watering.
In a mix with compost: To enhance the nutritional value of organic fertilizer.
In pots: Add 1 tablespoon every 4–6 weeks to flower or root crops.
Ideal for tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, strawberries, fruit trees and more.
💬 Who can do it?
Organic farmers
Professional nurserymen or gardeners
Butcher shops or slaughterhouses that want to recover waste
Anyone with access to bones and a grinder
🧩 Bonus tip: char the bones
If you have an oven or access to a pyrolysis oven, you can heating the crushed bones at a high temperature (600–750 °C) and obtain bone biochar, ideal for poor or dry soils.
🔧 Where to get a good shredder?
In ARC Distribution We offer powerful, hygienic, and durable bone crushers, ideal for small, medium, and large production runs.
With an affordable investment, you can manufacture your own natural fertilizer, save on inputs and generate an ecological product to sell or use.
✅ Conclusion
Making fertilizer from crushed bones is economical, sustainable and highly effectiveIn just a few steps, you can transform waste into a valuable resource for your crops. And the best part: it's completely natural.
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