Hi All,
I caught a gardening show on the radio. They recommended using alfalfa pellets after harvesting garlic and onions whilst the soil was awaiting the next planting.
Make sense to me, but I do not know what I am doing, so I am asking here.
By any change, do I risk alfalfa plants sprouting up like weeds?
-T
By any chanCe
Also, it occurred to me that since these pellet are also sold as rabbit food, that I be attracting their unwanted attention
it is higher nitrogen worm food, basically it's green manure. you can grow your own cheaper than buying it in pellet form if your conditions allow for you to sprout and grow it without having to water it.
a nursery crop like buckwheat will give it some shade and protection while it gets going. after the first year it will grow very well. i've grown it mixed in with birdsfoot trefoil and the trefoil would mostly crowd it out, but both alfalfa and trefoil are good nitrogen sources and good green manure crops to grow if you have the space for it, but they both need to be weeded because they provide habitat for weeds under and around them.
yes, but don't worry, they don't grow fast enough to be an issue and even if they do grow you can chop and drop them for extra worm food.
songbird
you can bury them a little (especially if you want them to be worm food) and that will probably keep most of the problems away of attracting critters.
songbird
Thank you!
I found it comes in meal form too. Looks like I can just water it in. Less work than digging it in.
Am I missing something?
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