Bought this house a year ago and doing some refreshing of the garden. Found these under landscape fabric, only an inch or two in the soil. 15-20 various small bones
by gob17
Bought this house a year ago and doing some refreshing of the garden. Found these under landscape fabric, only an inch or two in the soil. 15-20 various small bones
by gob17
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Usually if you want to put bones in your garden you’d bake them then grind them down….
Those probably once belonged to some chicken legs and wings…
Maybe someone tried to, even if it’s not actually a good idea.
Yes. Or someone just tossed them in assuming they’d decompose. If this was a burial there would be more than just leg and wing bones, the two most commonly consumed parts of a chicken.
People claim it slow releases something. I cant remember if its potassium phosphorus or calcium
as someone who has deboned many a chicken, these are chicken leg and wing bones
I’m joining the chicken leg crowd. There are only two types of bones that I can see in the picture (legs) so clearly not a burial of pet(s).
might be dumbass who though bone meal was just bones, or if it’s like my garden then its my dog burying anything she can including kibble for some reason
I sun dry eggs shells break them up very well and mix them in the soil
They won’t decompose unless the soil is prohibitively acidic. They can literally stay in ground thousands of years.
Iooking like chicken bones, but reminds me of what happens when someone finds bones on their property
Years for them to breakdown and become available for the plant to pick up.
No, attracts animals and never used in compost.
My guess is somone was eating wings outside and dumped the bones into a bush/plant. Similar to spitting watermelon seeds or tossing apple cores. Later someone laid landscape fabric.
i toss out all of the bones after dinner to whatever critter wants them.
in the morning, if they are still there, i toss them all under this one oak tree i have.i call it the bone tree because ive been tossing bones underneath it for YEARS.
some kind of animal got a hold of chicken from someone’s trash and buried it under your yard.
That’s a prior owner’s fur baby bone stash. You uncovered their buried treasure 💜.
I planted a deer horn hope it grows a deer. I find bones and put them in my garden as decoration
I have bones in my garden because my compost comes from my chicken run. I throw all kitchen scraps to my chickens. They eat what they want and turn the rest into compost. Every fall I add the dirt from their run into my garden so it’s ready by spring.
As someone who compost their animals after passing, I can say there are very likely chicken or duck legs.
Mostly for the raccoons if it’s done that way. They love em!
No, I do it to taunt evil spirits.
It will take too long to break down, I think you need to pulverize them?
It will make no difference either way
Yeah but I dry them in the oven and crush them up
Probably dumped into compost along with other stuff. I find sometimes bones in compost and these are not added on purpose.
I think people try this, and then discover that they just don’t break down. When I started using the Bokashi composting method years ago, I read that the bacteria would accelerate decomposition of bones and add calcium to my soil, so I started putting pork and chicken bones into the compost buckets. I’m still digging up pig ribs in the garden to this day, it’s kinda creepy.
people are gonna dunk on me but i put pretty much anything in my garden for bulk. i know bones dont breakdown super fast but i put them in my compost pile. if they get into the bed so be it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
… maybe their late family dog …?
My guess is the cook of the house gave these to the pup of the house who buried them in the garden.
I don’t practice Santeria, ain’t got no crystal ball. But I wouldn’t mess with them.
Honestly probably a foxes old stash they all look like very similair bones as if its packets of two, you’d be finding a skill, spine and hips if it was a pet, but bobes we eat are legs, ribs which is what these look like.
Update:
Previous owners have no idea what they’re from. They did not place them in the garden.
They had a dog, so hoping it’s the dog’s stash or from a fox or something. There are also some dogs that run around my neighborhood so could be that.
I personally throw tiny bones that I’ve used for stock into my compost pile. Even after a few years of an active compost they’re still there. Going straight into the ground is just asking rodents to dig your stuff up
Could you get a ruler in there for size? The more robust ones are throwing me off. The long thin ones are bird bones. I used to teach zoology, and that’s my background.
Need a banana for reference