Re: CULT: HYB: lucerne/alfalfa/manure

Kitty Loberg, northern Calif. said about using 'fresh' (uncomposted)
steer manure:
<If you let it get too much on the dry side or just lightly moist, the
decomposing process, going at full keel, actually makes the mixture get
very hot...[but]....
add water (like in water daily or every other day), it'll slow down that

process and keep the soil cool.    I've planted a wide variety of plants
in
soil supplemented with "hot" manure, and as long as it is kept watered,
the
plants grow like weeds...>

That's reassuring - I was thinking that if I keep the box of seedlings
with alfalfa cubes under the coarse sand/potting mix well watered and
out of direct sun, that the composting alfalfa might stay cool enough
not to hurt the roots, but would decompose fast enough to be good food
for any roots that cared to grow down that far.  You were talking about
steer manure,  but it seems the same would apply to alfalfa hay or
pellets, except that drainage would be poorer with the gooey mess the
pellets make.  Maybe mixed with sand or gravel for drainage, the pellets
would be ok too.  Thanks.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8


 

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