RE: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal added to soil is critter food?

From: Judi Stewart <js_at_olympus.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:29:09 -0700

I heard that cotton is one of the most heavily
sprayed crops. That's why I'd always refrained
from using cottonseed meal as a fertilizer.

Comments?

Judi

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bridges [mailto:kimas_at_texasgrown.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:58 PM
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal added to soil is critter
food?

There is an old farmer-type gentlemen that shops at our nursery and he
uses
nothing but cottonseed meal and his barn manure compost in his vegetable
garden. Nothing else. He brings some of his veggies by to show them off
occassionally. Beautiful produce!
Steve Bridges

----- Original Message -----
From: "George and Paulette Mouchet" <geomouchet_at_QNET.COM
To: <compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal added to soil is critter food?


 I wasn't clear with my first question. Let me rephrase:
 If I apply alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal to the top inch or so of the
soil
 (as a fertilizer), is it going to be helpful to the soil organisms? If
so, which organisms are most likely to be helped?

 What about adding cottonseed meal to the top inch or so of soil?

 Thanks,
 Paulette

 -----Original Message-----
 From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com [SMTP:soilfoodweb_at_aol.com]
 Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:54 AM
 To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [compost_tea] alfalfa hay/meal bacterial food?

 It's all relative. In some work we have done, the cottonseed meal
helps
 out fungi more than the alfalfa hay, and meal.

 In different conditions, the relative selection might be different.
You
 learn as you go.

 Elaine Ingham




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