RE: RE: Fertilizer
For what it's worth:
Have a hunch that unless you are looking at nation-wide distributors, and
using the same product and same manufacturer, that there is a lot of
variation between regions, brands, and individual products (it's probably
been at least 25 years since I paid even remote attention to Alfalfa
pellets, but I'll bet that there are dozens, if not hundreds of somewhat
different variations on the theme). So, I suppose that might mean it would
be a good idea to find out what it is in it beforehand, no matter what
animal it was made for.
We have even bought dog kibble that had big whole chunks of vegetable
matter in it, including whole kernels of corn. Guess it's a way to bring
the price down in the cheap brands? Maybe supposed to appeal to
vegetarians who want there carnivorous animals to be the same way? It was
generally more obvious when cleaning up the "processed" product than before
it went in the mouth. Dogs (nor people) digest whole chunks of things like
corn or beans or peas very well.
Till I joined this forum, I never would have even thought of the idea of
using something like Alfalfa pellets as fertilizer. The variety of topics
and amount of participation here is great. Now after all the discussion, I
think I might give the Alfalfa a shot. I'd probably have to turn it under
here, it would probably take a decade or two to break apart lying ion top
(have four year old Sunflower stalks that look pretty much the same as they
did four years ago - maybe a bit darker, and fewer seeds). And those cow
pies, even rabbit pellets, they last for years too, if they're not under
the sprays.
Dave
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