Alfalfa Meal 3-0.5-3
Boost your garden with Alfalfa Meal, an organic fertilizer and soil conditioner rich in nutrients, perfect for enhancing plant growth.
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Alfalfa Meal | Organic Fertilizer & Soil Conditioner for Healthy Plant Growth
Enhance your garden with Alfalfa Meal, an organic fertilizer and soil conditioner packed with nutrients, ideal for promoting plant growth.
What is alfalfa meal?
This organic garden enhancer is derived from fermented alfalfa seeds. Its light and airy appearance is complemented by a pleasant, earthy aroma. You can apply it liberally around all your flowering perennials and shrubs.
Benefits of Alfalfa Meal
Alfalfa meal offers a favorable blend of essential nutrients, primarily nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, along with magnesium and sulfur. This combination renders it one of the safest fertilizers available.
Alfalfa meal has an NPK ratio of 3-0.5-3. It contains nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), boron (B), and zinc (Zn) in addition to other trace minerals, which aids roots in nutrient absorption.
How to use Alfalfa Meal
Apply a generous line of the meal next to hedges and sprinkle it liberally around larger plantings. Incorporate the alfalfa meal into the soil using a rake, shovel or your hands—then water the plants as you normally would. The initial application should be in the spring when your plants start to display new growth. Plants that bloom only once in the year do not require additional meal. However, if your flowering plants have a longer bloom period, you might want to add more every six weeks.
Alfalfa meal is alkaline, so it should not be used with plants that thrive in acidic soil.
The simplest method of incorporating alfalfa meal into gardens is using it as a dry soil amendment. You can easily broadcast it by hand around your garden, allowing earthworms and microbes to process it (no-till style), or you can mix it into the soil by tilling.
Utilizing alfalfa meal as a basic soil amendment is an effective way to enhance organic matter and supply nitrogen to your soil. It acts quickly, decomposing faster than other materials like rock dusts. The nitrogen content in alfalfa is around 3%, with most of it being fast-releasing.