Re: Cult: Alfalfa Tea
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- Subject: Re: Cult: Alfalfa Tea
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 18:25:41 -0700 (MST)
> If I might add a word of advice to those interested in making an alfalfa
> tea: Don't let it stand for more than a couple of days. The smell alone
> will knock you on your....(paues for college student exercising
> restraint) rear-end. Seriously, it is not advised. The mix that we use
> is never exact, but we eye-ball about 1\3 of a five gallon pail full and
> then top it off with water and stir. My mother makes me pour it on
> strait out of the bucket, no cans to plug
He is right about the smell but, due to weather and one thing or
another I have let batches set for over a week and once stirred up most
of the smell goes away. Reminds me of horses and cleaning stalls.
Our mix is one passed on by folks that have been using this stuff for
quite a while. It is one cup of alfalfa per gallon of water and 1/2
dose of Miracle-Gro per gallon of water. Sometimes we throw in a little
epson salts for good measure.
I can't carry around the buckets so we load ours into a garden cart and
haul them up and down the beds. Works great!
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7 Usda, Zone 10 Sunset
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76". Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
