Tried alfalfa pellets.
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Alfalfa pellets as a natural palm food ???
Comments (6)tkz, the alfalfa pellets (rabbit chow size) will work as an organic fertilizer for your lawn and garden. Whether it clears up the yellow tips - who know until you try it. You can get alfalfa pellets in 50-pound bags at your local feed store. For a palm I would apply about a cup for every inch in diameter. Scatter it around the base of the tree about the diameter of the tree out. Moisten the pellets after applying. The day after you moisten them you will notice they have turned into little worms. Just step on them to mash the flakes onto the soil for good contact. It takes a full three weeks for the alfalfa pellets to convert into plant food, so be a little patient....See Moredoes ANYTHING in alfalfa attract wildlife?
Comments (14)Alfalfa will attract herbivores - voles, mice, rabbits, etc. It's a high-value forage plant after all, tasty and nutritious. That's why people make good money growing the stuff, because it's good feed for livestock and rabbits. Hunters use it too to attract deer and elk. Lots of things like alfalfa. Bone and blood and feather meal attract carnivores and scavengers. I did have one out of three dogs that ate the alfalfa pellets. I also had lots of vole damage when I've tried using alfalfa pellets. I stick to alfalfa tea now....See MoreAlfalfa pellets + Miracle Grow?Help pls
Comments (33)teka2rjleffel, I'm not sure how to answer that. My tea is just part of my feeding/soil improvement program and my roses are putting out new growth pretty constantly. I can't say I see any real spurt of growth after using the tea--I do have a good number of basals on most roses, though. I do the tea once a month. Mid-month I use Miracle Gro alone and Rosetone or Hollytone in the Spring and Summer (it's on tonight's list of things to do), and compost once a year. I don't have enough compost (or manure when I have the time and energy to go get it) to put it around every rose every year, so I rotate. I've experimented this year with adding 10-10-10 in-between on roses I think I might show and those in pots, too--so something pretty much every week on those roses. One reason I feed so heavily is because all of my roses are in raised beds filled with bagged topsoil/composted manure or pots--due to my vole problem, so I feel they need the extra fertilizer. Not sure this helped, Barbara...See MoreWhere to buy Alfalfa pellets?
Comments (12)Ohh, dtd, hope you had a good soak! And that it's just a temporary discomfort. I hope you took before and after photos. It's been a great spring to get some projects done. Yesterday was perfect weather here, too. pixielou, I use alfalfa pellets for roses. I just add them to the surface at the base of the plant and cover them with mulch. I also added some when I was making a lasagna bed last fall. I read a post yesterday about someone who uses it to fertilize their lawn....See Moreaggranduser
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