Re: CULT: Alfalfa Pellets

Thank you John and Laurie, for the information re alfalfa pellets/meal.  
When I had my commercial rabbit herd I always had pellets scratched out
of the feeders that was put in my gardens - however, it was mixed with
feces and urine so I'm sure that helped account for the lush, healthy,
and productive garden I had! Iris beds too! I do remember getting a bag
(out of a ton) that had some mold in it and I spread it through several
corn rows. I could definitely see a difference in the corn grown there
vs. the corn in other rows. Hopefully the meal or horse pellets will be
less expensive!!

Doris Elevier
USDA 7b, Sunset 11
El Paso, TX

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:02:01 -0400 "John  Bruce" <jbruce1@cinci.rr.com>
writes:
> The compressed horse pellets--alfalfa only-- or the alfalfa meal 
> pellets
> are what are normally used. You have to watch out for the additives 
> used
> to make them into feed. Corn and molasses are two of those 
> ingredients.
> There was a discussion on-list a few years back about something in 
> the
> corn (I think) that was a growth supressant. Laurie is correct about 
> meal 
> being better, and for an additional reason--less weed seeds. I got a 
> batch
> of the horse pellets one year and had a huge crop of weeds the 
> following 
> spring. Weeds which I had never seen before. 
> jb 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> John Bruce  jbruce1@cinci.rr.com
> Hidden Acres Iris Gardens
> http://home.cinci.rr.com/hiddenacres
> SW Ohio,USDA Zone 5b
> h*@cinci.rr.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: doris1434@juno.com 
>   To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:23 AM
>   Subject: [iris-talk] CULT: Alfalfa Pellets
> 
> 
>   Hi All:
>           I'm curious about the type of alfalfa pellets being used. 
> Is it
>   just ALFALFA compressed into pellets or an alfalfa based pelleted 
> feed
>   such as one would feed rabbits? Or does it matter?
> 
>   Doris Elevier
>   USDA 7b, Sunset 11
>   El Paso, TX
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