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dmoore66_gardener 6 (
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Sun, May 27, 12 at 11:54
I had to buy 50 lbs of pellets and only have 18 roses.
How often can I apply to my hybrid teas?
Can the tea be used on other plants such as rhodies? |
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RE: Alfalfa Tea
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RE: Alphafa Tea
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| What kind of answer is that, Karl? |
RE: Alphafa Tea
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| I use alfalfa tea on all my plants. Not one of them has complainted yet, they all explode when given a drink of the magic tonic. LOL |
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I should add---
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| But I wouldn't go to the trouble of making tea for everything in my yard. Instead, take a handful of pellets and fling them low across the soil wherever plants are growing and then turn on your sprinklers to water the pellets down. Lot less work that way. Kate |
RE: Alphafa Tea
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| dmoore, Karl was just pointing out that you had misspelled the word. It's alfalfa. |
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I understand that, but I am not as smart as Carl.
It would have been nicer if he answered my questions. He is supposed to be the expert!
No one suggested how often I can use on my roses; once a month, twice a month, twice a year? |
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| Just maybe he didn't know the answer you were looking for, but he did have some information for you which you now have. Now you know how to spell the word, and if you are patient maybe someone will have the answer you consider the correct one. I have never bothered to make alfalfa tea, but throw about a cup of alfalfa pellets around the base of roses once or twice a year. They won't go to waste; nor will they go bad (unless you get them wet, in which case they will mold). Whether they work on rhodies, I have no idea. |
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| I seem to remember reading somewhere that alfalfa can be put on monthly. However, I've never met anyone who did it that often. Most gardeners I know, if they use alfalfa, give a spring feeding of alfalfa and that's it. Ambitious types sometimes give the roses a second alfalfa feeding about half way through the summer. I feed my roses with RoseTone which has a bit of alfalfa in it, so mine get smaller but more frequent feedings of alfalfa. Once in a while I get energetic and give my roses a spring alfalfa feeding also. Kate |
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| I like to apply alfalfa pellets in spring. I toss about a cupful around each rose. Rhodies, azaleas, hydrangeas, the veggie garden, heck everybody gets it. The organic lawn food that I purchased at Lowe's is mostly alfalfa. I wouldn't use it later in the season because it leads to TONS of new growth that might not harden off before winter. |
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Actually there is no correct answer. How often you apply is up to you. I use it as part of my organic fertilizer mix a couple times a year. Many never use it or only apply it once. I use the meal, never the pellets. That doesn't mean I'm right, just that I don't like to feed the rabbits.
As long as you don't plant directly into it, you can use it as often as you wish. The tea gets the benefits to the plants faster but eventually the meal or pellets will do the same.
If kept in an air tight barrel, you csn store it for years.
It's Karl, not Carl. I'm kind of anal about that!
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| Thanks for your help everyone! |
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