Re: Alfalfa(horse pellets)

From: "wstone" <wstone@volcano.net>

Mike:  you got my curiosity up. Do you know the breakdown if any on what you
call
horse pellets...
wstone@volcano.net
Stone's Iris Garden..currently melting...3500' Sierra Nevada ...Zone 7....55
miles SE
Sacramento, California
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Sutton <suttons@lightspeed.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:24 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Alfalfa


>From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
>
>Hi Janice,
>We use Horse pellets from our local feed store, they work great!!  I
>experimented last year and doubled the pellets in two display beds and the
>growth, increase and bloom in these beds was much, much greater than the
>beds with the normal alfalfa in them.  We just put down the pellets dry and
>then work them into the soil before planting.  Works good for us.
>Sincerely
>Mike Sutton
>Sutton's Iris Garden
>suttons@lightspeed.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Janice Stocks <kjan44@freewwweb.com>
>To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
>Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 11:29 PM
>Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Alfalfa
>
>
>>From: "Janice Stocks" <kjan44@freewwweb.com>
>>
>>Where might I go to buy alfalfa pellets? I haven't seen anything like that
>>except for rabbit food anywhere. The rabbit food has all of the other stuff
>>in it.
>>Thanks,
>>Janice Stocks
>>Baytown,TX
>>Zone 9
>>
>>>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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