Why the molasses?
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Before you go ripping up your landscaping, understand that not all yucca is created equal.
Yucca used for decorative purposes doesn't have the same saponin count as yucca native to harsh areas, at least it doesn't work the same.
I prefer it somewhat dried and partially composted, or better yet ran through the worm bin.
Nope ....just us.
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vonforne
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dogfishheadie
was looking for another thread and figured i'd give this a bump. just picked up a #50lb bag today and was wondering what the hell I was going to do with all of it. cheap, simple and beneficial. i'll take it.
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BlueJayWay
Just got meself a #50lb bag of organic alfalfa pellets, woohoo my first time getting a hold of actual listed organic alfalfa - fuck monsanto!
OH, and I have a container i recently harvested and planted alfalfa in it, it's growing like crazy we shall see if keeping one container of alfalfa 'off to the side' in the flower room will continually provide enough alfalfa for my teas, which isn't much really.....
OH, and I have a container i recently harvested and planted alfalfa in it, it's growing like crazy we shall see if keeping one container of alfalfa 'off to the side' in the flower room will continually provide enough alfalfa for my teas, which isn't much really.....
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BlueJayWay
Hell yeah 
some people will bust open a bale and run it over with the lawn mower until you have "meal"
some people will bust open a bale and run it over with the lawn mower until you have "meal"
benzo
Active member
Hell yeah
some people will bust open a bale and run it over with the lawn mower until you have "meal"
ooooh fantastic idea.
we were gonna use a big ass blender, but that would take FOREVER.
thanks for the speedy tip
StayBlazinDawg
Member
I have been playing with Alfalfa Meal for about year and had a few questions for cyberspace. Rule of thumb i have read say alfalfa based teas are more for veg and fungal mat made teas more for flowering is that bullshit? I have predatory mites and those little white worms in my soil I want to keep them happy, plus add more bugs and ecology to the plants while feeding will both alfalfa and fungal keep the bugs and future bugs happy for teas. I have started top dressing with my compost chalk full of predatory mites I have been cooking in my trash cans to keep the ecology pumping.
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BlueJayWay
I call bullshit - my flowers don't grow into strange alien looking plants because they were fed an alfalfa tea a week before harvest
The entire garden (rooted cuttings all the way to full flower) is fed the same thing every time, whatever tea it happens to be, if a plant well into flower is still nice and green then I just dilute the 'tea' a little more....plants that are obviously finished with their growth cycle and senescence has set in, and I'm just waiting for trichs to change and maybe a little more swelling of calyxes - well those plants are pretty much done 'eating' and feeding them heavy is pointless, water only if they need it..
...otherwise, in a living soil the plant creates a relationship with the soil and gives and takes what it needs - immediately available nitrogen in the alfalfa tea is the only thing to watch, there's no need to go heavy with nitrogen on a plant that obviously doesn't need it - that's it....
The entire garden (rooted cuttings all the way to full flower) is fed the same thing every time, whatever tea it happens to be, if a plant well into flower is still nice and green then I just dilute the 'tea' a little more....plants that are obviously finished with their growth cycle and senescence has set in, and I'm just waiting for trichs to change and maybe a little more swelling of calyxes - well those plants are pretty much done 'eating' and feeding them heavy is pointless, water only if they need it..
...otherwise, in a living soil the plant creates a relationship with the soil and gives and takes what it needs - immediately available nitrogen in the alfalfa tea is the only thing to watch, there's no need to go heavy with nitrogen on a plant that obviously doesn't need it - that's it....
Hell yeah
some people will bust open a bale and run it over with the lawn mower until you have "meal"
I remember Cootz once advised chopping up materials with a barrel and a weed whip. A big heavy duty box might work too. This method would make clean up easier.
And if chopping up bales sounds like too much work, you can grow in the bales.....scrappy
http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/straw-bale-gardening.html
MedicalGrower
Member
yep
lawn mower does a fine job of chopping up Alfalfa flakes...
lawn mower does a fine job of chopping up Alfalfa flakes...
Fruitilicious
Member
great idea im gona try make my own canna boost using this recipe
Excellent thread.
Cool thread.
