What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. If you were listening to yesterday's episode, hopefully you got some good info on corn gluten from Bill over at my garden maker. Today we're continuing with Bill. He has so much knowledge actually it was impossible to get it all out of his brain in the short time that we talked. But I got six episodes worth and we're probably going to come back to him later sometime in this spring to get even more.

But today shows all about alfalfa meal.

And alfalfa meal makes up a significant percentage

of the epic soil starter mix and many of the organic fertilizer mixes they make over

their garden maker and for good reason

and those reasons we're going to get into in today's show. There's some very unique properties

about alfalfa that make it a wonderful fertilizer. So without further ado, I'm going to let Bill take it away.

Maybe we could move to Alfalfa meal, because I know at least in the soil starter mix that we created,

that's a pretty significant portion.

I think it's 30% by weight of the...

It is, I have your mix in front of me, so yes, it is.

Yeah.

We chose that for a reason and I'd love to kind of get your expert thoughts on why that's such a heavy weighting.

Alpha there's a couple things and the reason I like alfalfa again it kind of has this

multi-purpose kind of use the first thing is it's its n NP and K is quite nice.

It's not particularly high in phosphorus, but it's got a nice nitrogen and a

reasonable potassium. It also has a fair amount of calcium in it.

It's kind of why it's used in nutrition for animals.

So it's got some extra nutrients in that regard.

Apparently, the one real key value of it that's kind of missed by many people is that it has a natural compound in it that's called

tricontinol and that actually stimulates root development and it was discovered in the 70s during one of the first energy

crisis when alfalfa was being used as a replacement for urea which is a

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