fish waste

[miker2d2]

I go fishing and eat my catch so I often have lots of fish skeletons and heads, can I use these to help fertilise the ground? if so what is the best away do to this? I do not want a garden full of cats and rats!

cheers

[Bigmallly]

I pulled this from another forum if it helps at all.

Fish is a fantastic garden fertiliser.I think probably putting all fish scraps in a drum of water and using a cupful from drum per garden bucket of water.And for goodness sake keep the lid on the drum!!!!! I buy 'Dig this' from the Scarrows-it has a fish base and is great for the garden.

[Bigmallly]

It looks like you can, here is another snippet.

Don't worry about the smell! I really do use fish for tomatoes and roses and ...lots of things! There is no smell. I bury the fish. I just planted a rose bush the other day, dug a hole, about 3 feet and put three whole raw fish down in it and then garden dirt, compost, peat, and bone meal. No cats have ever come digging up my fish. In my containers for tomatoes I already have some fish remains buried in the soil waiting for planting out time. No smell there either.
I have a hyper sensitive nose. I wouldn't put fish remains ON TOP , but way underneath, I promise, no problem.
The only time I had a smell problem was when I had a kind fisherman neighbor who used to leave me what he'd caught and didn't want to eat on a shared fence in a plastic bag, in the summer. Once he left me a nurse shark!
I got it buried as soon as I could. Nothing does as well in my garden as the perennial plants over that shark. I'm sorry the fisherman moved away.

[Two_Sheds]

We occasionally have fish & meat bones. I wrap them in newspaper and add them to my Dalek composters (no problems with rats so far...)

[Glutton4...]

Looks like BM and TS have covered it. I was going to say, put it somewhere to rot first, like in the middle of your compost heap, then add something smelly, like horse or farmyard manure to hide the smell of the fish. However, burying it, like when making a bean trench, I guess, would be a great way to use it. Let us know how you get on.

[miker2d2]

thanks everyone, looks like its going in the heap which thankfully is at the bottom of the garden!

[Two_Sheds]

burying it, like when making a bean trench, I guess, would be a great way to use it.

...unless you have foxes