Trees that can handle the placenta?

[Mom2Adam]

I am hoping to benefit from other's research - since it hurts to sit on my bottom for too long... .

We are having a HB (by the way, I made it to 37 weeks! Yipee!) and want to bury the placenta under a new tree in honor of the babe. We are worried that the placenta will provide TOO MUCH Fertilizer for the tree and "burn" it. Has anybody had success planting? Or has anybody done the appropriate research and is happy to share? Thanks in Advance -

Traci

[tomtemama]

We planted a corkscrew willow over dd #1s placenta and it is doing very well. We rent so we have it in a largish pot and I think it is happy just to have access to the extra nutrition.

We are planning to plant this placenta under a magnolia. We'll see how that goes.

To be honest I never even thought about the excess fertilizer "burning" the roots.

Good luck I hope you find something suitable.

[boingo82]

I don't think natural fertilizers can burn trees. I think that only happens with the scary chemical ones.

[dharmama]

I read some stuff on the Birth and Beyond board about placenta planting before we did ours with DD.

Several people talked about the placenta being too much fertilizer so we opted for two holes. One for the tree (a kousa dogwood) and the other for the placenta was about 3 feet away.

[waterbaby9503]

Do you think a clump of raspberry bushes would do well over a placenta?

[KatSG]

What a great question! I never thought about this. (Natural things can burn plants, BTW, especially if they haven't broken down yet. Chicken manure is notiously "hot" and has to mellow and break down before you use it.)

Dharmama's solution sounds good to me. That way the placenta can break down and water will naturally bring the nutrients to the plant afterward.