Re: Alfalfa
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- Subject: Re: Alfalfa
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:48:34 -0700
From: Rick Tasco/Roger Duncan <randrcv@sierratel.com>
janet & shan wrote:
>
> From: "janet & shan" <shan@montana.net>
>
> We have read about adding an alfalfa mix to the soil to add extra nutrition
> for iris. We bought alfalfa cubes. I mixed about four cups of these cubes
> to a five gallon bucket. They break up and become like green straw fairly
> quickley and I poured it on the reblooming iris beds to give them a boost
> before they bloom again. I am wondering if the cubes are the right stuff?
> Then I mix them in the soil?? and they are like compost?? So far only have
> one iris bed completed. Any information you have would be helpful. These
> cubes are loose cut alfalfa and resemble shreded broccoli. Thanks, Janet
> & Shan, Billings Montana
>
J & S,
Check out these articles about alfalfa on the Canadian Iris Society Web
Site: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS/alfalfa.html
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California in the Sierra Nevada foothills...where the Texas heat
wave will be coming our way soon. Ugh!
Zone 8
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