Re: Re: CULT: Use of Alfalfa pellets, etc.
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Use of Alfalfa pellets, etc.
- From: w*
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:58:32 -0600
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>
> Walter, I did the same thing about 3 years ago in building the last & my
> biggest raised iris beds (3 landscape timbers tall) out front. Just
> plopped on three 50 pound bags of the pellets and when I watered and they
> expanded ---- oooooheeeee... And if the smelly yuck (good phrase you had
> for it) wasn't bad enough - OH those flies! I've never seen flies that
> big. Some had 3 inch wing spreads... & a few made almost as much buzz as
> our city police chopper. . .
> Kath in OKC =^..^= aka: Kathy Poore, AIS Reg. 22 Zone 7
>
Another bad experience I had with alfalfa pellets concerned putting
it in the bottom of pots. Don't do it! Roots won't grow into it and
it becomes full of maggots. I don't know if the maggots develop
into flies, but just their presence at unpotting time is disgusting
enough.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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