Is it true that bone meal is the best bulb food?
Once upon a time, bone meal was considered an excellent bulb fertilizer, but times have changed! Most bone meal today has been so thoroughly processed that the essential nutrients have been literally boiled out. As well, some of the newer bone meal formulations smell just like bones ending up actually attracting dogs, raccoons, etc who start digging in the area where the bone meal has been applied. Spring-flowering bulbs actually need no fertilizer for their first season of blooming. A healthy Dutch bulb will already contain all the food it needs to support one season of spectacular growth. Bulbs that will be left in the ground to naturalize will benefit from well-rotted cow manure or special bulb fertilizer when the shoots first appear in spring and again the following autumn.
