Re: RE: Alfalfa Pellets
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] RE: Alfalfa Pellets
- From: John I Jones j*@usjoneses.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:43:57 -0700
On Jul 15, 2005, at 4:07 AM, irischapman@netscape.net wrote:
> I have never used alfalfa feeling (almost certainly wrongly)
>> that it would draw critters to the garden. I know alfalfa 'tea'
>> is not the same concoction as alfalfa pellets (rabbit food). :-)
Just an aside comment: You should not use the rabbit food kind of
alfalfa pellets, they have additional ingredients, often corn products.
Corn products in some cases can act as a growth inhibitor.
However, not all alfalfa pellets are rabbit food. There are some that
are manufactured as horse feed and are nothing but alfalfa. That is
what you should put on your irises, or more appropriately mix in the
soil before you plant your irises.
John
>> I remember your problem with deer,etc. Here, I worry more about
>> moose and black bear in the garden.
>
> I use lots of pellets here.
> I have lots of wildlife here including a huge black rabbit which has
> adopted us, obvious an escapee from someones pen. I have never seen
> any critter touching the alfalpha pellets. They seem to prefere the
> fresh green things, particularly the delicious dendilions growing in
> the lawn. The deer prefer the apples on the apple tree. Only
> occasionally will something even sample an iris althugh the black
> rabbit was observed pushing over a siberian flower stalk and sampling
> the flower.
>
>
> Chuck Chapman
>
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