Re: RE: Alfalfa Pellets
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] RE: Alfalfa Pellets
- From: w*@cs.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:22:58 -0400
Hello
Yes, horse alfalfa, not rabbit!
It has produced excellent results in my seedling beds.
Bill
John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com> wrote:
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>On Jul 15, 2005, at 4:07 AM, irischapman@netscape.net wrote:
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>> 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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