Adding bone meal for your plants to your garden-care regimen could be beneficial. The organic fertilizer is rich in nutrients that promote healthy growth and can even improve soil composition. However ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: I read tulips should be fertilized with bone meal six weeks before frost. Should I use bone meal? — Sue, Indianapolis Dear Reader: This is a good idea for those selling bone meal, but ...

A gardener asks why skunks keep digging up his spring bulbs, and if hot peppers might discourage them. Skunks are carnivores. Bulbs are vegetables. Hot pepper won't protect them because skunks don't ...

Q: I put a small amount of bone meal into each hole when I planted my lilies. The plants are growing nicely, but when I barely touched some of the flower buds, they immediately fell off. Did the bone ...

Yikes! I’ve been doing it wrong all these years: Using bone meal when I plant bulbs. “MYTH BUSTED!” was the headline of a recent article in Garden Gate Magazine. The article announced, “Bone meal is ...