Re: CULT:Alfalfa Tea
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- Subject: Re: CULT:Alfalfa Tea
- From: C* H* <c*@netcom.ca>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:37:03 -0700 (MST)
Steven & Sharlyn Rocha wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I'm thinking about making some alfalfa tea. How is it applied? With a
> sprayer or a watering can? Are the nutrients from the tea absorbed through
> the foliage or the roots? I found a recipe for it two pounds per five
> gallon bucket.
Chris replies:
The alfalfa tea may be applied as a foliar spray or just watered in around each plant
with a watering can for uptake by the feeder roots. If you apply as the latter
sprinkling so that you wet down the foliage at the same time as watering the soil
area around the plants you likely will get the benefit of both!
Hope this helps. For a couple of articles on the use of alfalfa with iris growing see
the CIS website and follow the link to "Alfalfa and Irises". Main web link to the CIS
website is given below.
--
Christopher Hollinshead
Mississauga, Ontario Canada zone6b
AIS(Region 16), CIS, SSI
Director-Canadian Iris Society
Newsletter Editor-Canadian Iris Society
e-mail: cris@netcom.ca
CIS website: http://www.netcom.ca/~cris/CIS.html
