As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The other night our Paul dropped me a note about using alfalfa as a natural fertilizer as we talked about the experiments I have been engaged in to make the soil alive from HAARP chem poisons………still awaiting the rich people to come up with the 6 figure donation so this information will be available to the entire class and not just the Faithful few when the time is right………….
So I was puzzled at this as I have read allot of Robert Rodale books and articles. He was Mr. Organic and it was a great loss to all when he died in Russia in a plane crash spreading the good news of soil rejuvenation years ago.
I had read of the Rodale Manure Tea, which is animal manure, usually cattle that is soaked in water, and drained off. This is a nutritional liquid fertilizer which is all natural and when done the compost left over is broken down for dry matter in the soil known as loam soil to break up clay and to help hold sand together.
So I knew of alfalfa as a crop. Farmers plant this Russian native with deep tap roots which brings up trace minerals from the subsoils to fix nitrogen in the soil as a natural soil builder. They then work up the soil and plant grain crops. The correct rotation is small grain like wheat, oats or flax, followed by heavy feeders like corn, so you get two years of soil nutrients instead of one, as you would with corn first.
Paul informed me that golf course use this pellet and there is a powder available to keep their greens nice.
The Rodale method is a bit work intensive but it is a good solution compared to expensive petro chemical fertilizers. The only thing that was ever wrong with Bob Rodale and his father reconditioning played out Pennsylvania soil, is that you really need at least 2 acres to provide the compost to recondition one acre of soil.
On farms the vegetable and grain matter is run through pigs and cows to get the fertilizer which plants can convert to better crops.
Paul will keep me informed on his experiment which delights me, and I intend to study this further as I have said, “Any damned fool with money in nice growing locations can grow a good garden”. Try gardening in the Brier and you will find out you are not the master gardener you think you are.
I will have some more tidbits when I get pictures to help with drought gardens in methods I have developed by God’s Grace, but for now this alfalfa fertilizer intrigues me as I had never heard of it before as I said, that is what we use cows for to convert alfalfa to meat, milk and fertilizer.
DIY Alfalfa Fertilizer for Higher Yields - Rodale Institute
Mar 18, 2013 ... Depending on the crop, we usually use one 50-pound bag of pellets (now weighing 122 pounds with the water added) per 500 square feet of raised ...
Some information on this. When alfalfa is cut, it needs to dry to bale it. When it is curing it has a scent all of it’s own as the microbes are working in it. If it is baled wet, the bales will get hot, smoke and you will smell a tobacco like scent and the hay turns brown black inside the bale and is like a solid mass when trying to feed it. The cattle will eat it though which amazes me, but they will eat a whole lot of things.
So I suspect this alfalfa meal when it is wet, and is breaking down will have that same scent it has in the field when it is curing. I think it smells fine, but some might bitch about it. Then again I think beef cattle shit smells nice in it is sweet smelling from the grass, but my cousin and his friends ran our cows off from the corral to drink water as it smelled like cattle and those flies were present. That stuff never bothers me as there is a whole lot worse things in this world and they number about 8 billion primates.
If you can make use of it, thank you Paul!
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