Re: HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings



On 18 Jul 01, at 22:14, Mary Ferguson wrote:

> Another problem with the alfalfa in containers is that when wet, it starts
> to compost and becomes very hot.  It works much better,used sparingly, as
> a top dressing on large plantings or cultivated in several weeks before
> planting a new bed such as Schreiners have done. (Bob Shreiner Article AIS
> Bulletin as long ago as perhaps January 1995) In Moores experiment, the
> probable reason the seedlings didn't cook and die was that the alfalfa was
> below the roots and not touching...perhaps the heat prevented the roots
> from growing into the alfalfa.  Mary ----- 

   From my experience with alfalfa bits, I believe the only way to 
use it here it to till it into the soil when preparing a new bed or 
revitalizing an old one.  I don't like the tea because of the foul 
odor.

   I think top dressing in the spring may have contributed to my 
terrible bout with leaf spot this last spring.  I plan to top dress
a group of so-so seedlings next spring but nothing else to see if 
they get more leaf spot than the others.

   Thanks for the information.

   Walter Moores
   Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8

 

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