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Zman
 Post subject: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 10:30 
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Anyone growing this in their AP? :dontknow:
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 10:37 
I've tried "this" and "that".... "that" went better... :mrgreen:
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 11:50 
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Dammit! lol
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 12:16 
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What you going to do with it Zed man ?
Its only used for stock feed... good if you have chooks
In the real world [as opposed to AP, lol ] alfalfa or lucerne as its called here has a tap root of up to 10 meters


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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 12:22 
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Dammit i just had a look what alfalfa was, I was thinking they were bean sprouts lol.

I might grow some to see if the silver perch wants to take a stab at them -_-

Apparently its got a high protein (up to 35%) content and soluble fiber.
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 12:28 
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The seed is used for salad sprouts... thats prolly where you got the idea.

It is one of the highest protein fodders around.. thats why used in race horse feed.
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 12:38 
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It is also used as a "green compost", as it is a nitrogen fixing plant in soil. You would not be able to grow enough in AP to get a usable amount. It is also a very low value plant, and your beds would be put to better use growing something more pallatable. I can't imagine that the SP would touch it. It is commonly pelletised, and you could get a small amount of it from a feed store to try for very cheap. Beats tying up a growbed IMO.
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 12:58 
Gee Furnaceboy... I didn't know you were one of Methuselah's Children....

Ever since arriving in Australia... I've thought I was a "stranger in a strange land"... :wink:
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Gee Furnaceboy... I didn't know you were one of Methuselah's Children....

Ever since arriving in Australia... I've thought I was a "stranger in a strange land"... :wink:


Its because we dont "love" our sheep the way you do back home right :mrgreen:
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 13:25 
Indeed.. there is "time enough for love"...
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PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 13:26 
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Or run whitebait in our ap systems :whistle:
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 13:29 
Nah... Mantis... too hard to keep eels from periodically slipping out and disappearing toward the Coral Sea...
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 13:36 
Come on Furnaceboy.... help these illiterate peasants out.... :lol:
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I don't know, they let me in, being a Canadian and all......
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 Post subject: Re: alfalfa
PostPosted: Aug 31st, '11, 14:12 
The character Lazarus Long (From the author Robert Heinlein)... :wink:
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