Alfalfa pellets & Alfalfa tea

This past weekend the Home & Garden section
of our local newspaper had an article written
by a local Master Gardener (who is not a
pumpkin grower).  Her article was entitled
"A Recipe For Success: Serve Your Garden
Some Alfalfa Tea"
She explains that there is a hormone in
alfalfa (triacontanol) that stimulaes root growth.
A search of the Mallorn archives shows that
this was briefly discussed a year or so ago.

Her article explains that she had good results
using the pellets as a side dressing around her
plants so she decided to go one step further
and make some "alfalfa compost tea".
The ingredients........a handful of alfalfa pellets,
worm compost, a little basic plant food and
some seaweed. The article did not list exact
quantities. She added all this to a 5 gallon
bucket of water.
She stirred this mixture daily and watched it
begin to bubble as the microbiotic action began.
After 10 days she mixed one cup of tea with
2 gallons of water and used it on her plants.
Again she had very good results.
She experimented with 2 plots of peppers.
The ones that recieved the alfalfa definitely
had "better color, more growth and had
earlier blooms".

How many list growers are using alfalfa pellets
or tea this year ??
Results ??

George Webster
Napa, Ca

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