Wierd alfalfa tea

hi gang,
I use alfalfa tea with various addititves to feed my roses and perennials. The formula doesn't alter much. However, this time the tea is black as ink. Wierd. It still smells as nauseating as ever, but I'm kind of worried about using it.
Maybe it's because I wasn't around to stir it /oxygenate it very much this time?
Would you use it?
tamberlin

I would test it on something you could live with damaging / losing first.

The people on the rose forum seem to rely on it. Maybe there's even a thread on it that might have the answer for you. I have a huge bag of it but haven't had your black experience with it.

I ended up using it anyway.... because there was rain in the forecast to dilute it. Honestly, this stuff smells like a truckload of dirty diapers after a couple of weeks, but my roses and perennials are HUGE. Even the blueberry bushes like it.

I put it directly into the soil in late March or early April since I had read it should "cook" in the hot sun and we weren't having hot sun then. I'd like to give it a try, making it as you do, but the thought of the stench is holding me back.

Actually, the stench is not so bad. It fades away after a day or so after applying it to the garden. I do it before it rains because then it gets down into the root zone to do its good work.

The kids are the only ones who routinely complain about the smell, but they complain about everything!