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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Potting mix
  • Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:38:24 -0700


Yes and I use alfalfa along with bone meal, greensand, rock dust, and blood
meal. I mix all of this into composting aged manure with soil when it will do
the most good. The humic acids produced in the breakdown of organic matter
process the minerals into stable compounds the microorganisms work with to
produce humus. But alfalfa horse pellets are a much better bargain and I soak
it in 5-gallon buckets to make a thick mush of it and work it in thoroughly
with everything else. I end up with great growing soil that retains
moisture, drains well, and supports healthy growth, all starting from thin,
sandy dirt. In one season. And it doesn't have to be repeated or tilled every
year. After this, an annual mulch layer of this compost on top of my beds is
sufficient to maintain humus levels and soil structure no matter what the
weather does. Less work, lower cost, higher yield, more profit.

paul, tradingpost AT riseup.net
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Soilmakers/
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On 1/4/2006 at 12:11 PM Andrew R. King wrote:

>My potting mix has been made up of 39% compost 39% peat moss 29% perlite.
>The other 3% came from green sand, rock phosphate, gypsum and Blood meal. I
>am thinking about replacing the blood meal with alfalfa meal. Will alfalfa
>meal work as well as blood meal?
>
>
>
>Andy King
>
>Sunflower King's Farm
>
>Trumbauersville, PA
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