In the wild animals will only eat alfalfa when there is no alternative. They eat it in captivity only when they have no alternative for fresh food.
Papaya extract is a digestive aid enzyme.
Jim W, if you look at the ingredients for most organic fertilizers you will see a list including corn, alfalfa, soybean, wheat, flax, cottonseed, and animal byproducts. The animal byproducts usually include feather meal, fish meal, hydrolyzed fish, poultry litter, and sometimes blood meal. If you'll notice these are all protein sources of one type or another. So we have, for the past 13 years, been using the raw materials directly from the feed store and saving a lot over the commercially bagged organic fertilizers. The application rate is 15 to 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. The way these work is that the 100,000 or so species of microbes in the soil decompose the foodstuffs and then decompose each other until there is a byproduct called plant food. This process takes 3 weeks to occur. Once it does you should see results like this...This was taken by mrmumbles several years ago. It's a zoysia lawn fertilized with a handful of alfalfa pellets in mid May. The picture was taken in mid June the same year. You can see the improved color, density, and growth.
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