Thanks for the feedback everyone. What an awesome resource permies is!!!
I bought 10lbs of soup bones from a local butcher, cut into fist size hunks, brought them home and smoked them in my electric smoker(apple wood, doesn't matter) for 4 hours until the marrow started to soften. I followed the instruction outoif Sepps Permaculture from there. In the book he does say to used smoked bones.
Sepps book says he simply paints it on or sprinkles over the tree with a brush or broom. He also mentions the salve can be mixed with linseed oil, fresh cow dung, slaked lime, very fine quartz sand.
I mixed mine with a half quart of olive oil to thin it out until it was a paintable consistency and just used a stick with a rag tied to it. I brushed the branches and let the salve drip on the leaves.
Many of the trees and plants have a few green leaves but the rest are soggy/greasy. Does anyone have any tips to help keep the trees and plants alive? The sit back and observe element will likely be my approach but was thinking about stripping all the leaves and hope for new chutes as sepp talked about in his book. Maybe next time I'll mix with lime to balance out the acid of the salve and only apply to the trunk.
