Can Alfalfa Pellets Fertilize Garden Veggies??

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50glee Huntersville, NC Jun 02, 2010

Can alfalfa pellets be used for my garden veggies?? Im growing squash (yellow & green), potatoes, onions, tomatoes and strawberries.

I have a lot of these pellets and would like to use them up.

Advise Please!

Thank You

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Ret_Sgt_Yates Sparta , TN(Zone 7a) Jun 02, 2010

*Alfalfa - Epsom Salts Tea: Add to a 20 gal. garbage can filled with water: 16 cups of Alfalfa pellets and 2 cups of Epsom salts. Stir well and let brew for one week. Stir and pour by the cupful on roses, shrubs, veggies and flowers of all kinds. Add sludge from bottom to next brew or to compost pile or just add more water and use slurry on plants.

Because its a slow release of both nitrogen and potassium (not much phosphorus)high organic matter content (42%) host of trace nutrients and ph of 6.5, alfalfa pellets work quadruple duty on our farm. Raising the low ph or our boreal soils, while feeding the crops and increasing the biological activity in the earth, increasing fertility overall.

The pellets do break down over time, but they can still be found (if incorporated in the soil) even a year later. This spring when we pulled some plastic mulch we found all kinds of totally undisturbed pellets in the bed. Also some spilt pellets lasted all fall/winter/spring on a rock pile at the edge of the field. completely exposed to the elements.

I hope this Helps

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