Use horn meal correctly for fertilization

Anyone who fertilizes with horn meal relies on an effective, but also sustainable and natural product.

Horn meal - a natural alternative to artificial fertilizers

• fertilizer Horn is sold as horn meal, horn meal or horn shavings. The name depends on the grain size of the material, which in turn influences its properties.
• The horn meal is ground and sieved particularly finely so that the grain size is less than a millimeter in diameter.
• Horn manure is obtained from the horns and claws of beef cattle. Horn meal consists of 100 percent natural, renewable raw material and is therefore made also often used by organic farmers who are banned from using artificial nitrogen fertilizers is. You can find more information on this on the portal Ökolandbau.de.
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• The horn meal is ideally sprinkled on the ground before sowing and then worked into the soil.


Fertilize cucumbers

Cucumbers need a lot of nutrients. For a good harvest, you need to fertilize the plants. …

• Due to its structure, horn meal is absorbed by the soil much more quickly than, for example, horn shavings and is therefore particularly suitable when a quick effect is desired.
• Conversely, horn shavings are particularly suitable if the effect is long-term and should not be re-fertilized after a short time. The fertilization with horn shavings lasts up to three months. After that, even the shavings were completely consumed by the soil organisms.
• Even if horn meal is obtained from components of beef, there is no risk of BSE transmission through this fertilizer. In principle, BSE cannot be transmitted through dead tissue such as horn.

Since decomposition in the soil takes place very slowly, the risk of over-fertilization is practically excluded, especially when using horn shavings.