Third winter after applying the bone sauce to the unguarded trees both fruit producers a plum and a serviceberry. Four years ago the muntjac deer damaged the serviceberry so it was a favourite of his and you can see it's healing up nicely now.

Perhaps not suprisingly Sepp Holzer is right this stuff lasts for years possibly up to multiple decades after application.

Just so you know the deer is still lurking around the garden, he is eating all the herbaceous flowers instead! The sneaky bastard.

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Did you make the bone sauce?

Yeah it's relatively easy with the right equipment. Get two pots matching pots, put a little bit of water in the bottom of one. In the other get some bones (usually free from the butcher I used cattle bones) put mesh over it. Place this pot inverted on the pot with water and then seal lip really well with clay. Dig hole in ground place your two pots in the ground and have a fire on the top for a few hours. All going well you will have some bone sauce.

Might take you a couple of tries but it's fairly easy to do.

Nice. I may have to try this, I like playing with fire

Give it a go, once you made it put it in the freezer if you want to store it for future use. Definitely made that mistake.

The keys areas where you might go wrong are not using identical pots and making sure the seal is really good. After just make sure you don't rampup the fire too quickly and you should be ok.

The only other person i've heard makes bone sauce is Billy Bond. He has great results for deterring deer from trees.

Yeah its weird its a lost skill. Apparently Sepp got the idea from his childhood when a man used to come round the villages making and selling it to people in the villages.

The nearest thing that sound similar here was a product here called renardine which is probably a more refined version but it was banned here in 2005 for seemingly no reason. Since it was first made in 1895 I guess people lost the skill of making it because they bought that instead.

Dippel the alchemist is meant to invented it Dippel's oil which sounds similar to bone sauce. He also invented Prussian blue and seems to be the basis for character Frankenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Konrad_Dippel

Interesting about Dippel. Funny how these names and people fall into obscurity.