Re: Alfalfa...
Amy Rupp wrote:
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> Alfalfa meal (a powder, like corn meal) is supposed to be nectar to roses.
> Will it work for iris, too, or does it really need to be pelleted?
> --
> Amy Moseley Rupp
> Jill O. *Trades
> Mistress O. {}
>I have had good luck using alfalfa meal. In rejuvenating an older bed or making a new iris bed I have had good results incorpotating alfalfa
meal 3"-4" below the roots of iris plants, then planting my iris as
usual. In already established iris beds I have used alfalfa meal as a
light top-dressing. Adding alfalfa meal seems to make my iris grow much
stronger and gives the leaves a blueish-green color!
Julie Irwin
