Re: HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: CULT: pushing seedlings
- From: J* C*
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:12:44
>I don't think I had ever heard of anyone laying down a solid layer of
>alfalfa. I have always mixed it in with the dirt.
When I make a new garden bed here, where there is virtually no topsoil, I
put down a solid layer of lucerne hay, about 4" thick, ontop of a thick
layer of newspaper, to supress weed growth.
I add about 6 to 8" of topsoil, ontop of the lucerne. By the time the plants
put their roots down into the lucerne, it is well rotted. Everything grown
in these coditions has performed well.
Cheers, Jan in Australia,
where alfalfa is lucerne :-)
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