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Alfalfa tea?

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Posted by boncrow66 none (My Page) on
Sat, Sep 13, 14 at 22:08

I have been researching alfalfa tea and googled the recipe and it sounds line roses love it but also like a lot of work. What do most of you prefer, alfalfa tea or scratching in alfalfa pellets?

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Tea. Because, for one thing, I have dogs -- I don't want them digging out the alfalfa cubes.

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Good point Jeri, I didn't think about dogs wanting to dig up the pellets. I have 2 little inside dogs but given the chance they would love to dig in the garden.

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Putting the meal (not pellets) around the plants, watering in, and walking away. Tried the tea once, not worth the trouble to me.

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I prefer the meal like Diane, a lots less work. Also if you go with the tea, don't make the mistake a friend did. He made his 1st batch of tea in his attached garage & the odor entered his house....he gets reminded of it very frequently by his wife & kids.

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I go for the easiest method. Scatter the pellets around the roses, lightly mix them into the surface of the soil, and give the pellets a good watering in with a stiff spray from your hose. The pellets break down into a wet "mush" while you are watering them in. Put mulch down over the disintegrating pellets--to retain the moisture (and distract pets from digging there?).

I haven't particularly noticed any increase in smells as a result of doing it that way.

Make sure whatever form you get that it isn't salted.

Kate

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Thanks everyone for the advice! I'll check my local feed store for meal and if they don't have it will use the pellets. I don't think I want to mess with making the tea right now. Although maybe when I retire in several years I might try it since I will have more time on my hands. Does anyone add anything else to the Alfalfa? A friend of mine mentioned she adds blood/bone meal and Epsom salt and a half cup of osmocote.

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