You know, this brings to mind all the stuff one reads about regarding
teas and bacteria (even paghat's info about dogs peeing in the grass). Is
there really any "bad" soil microbes if one's use is under particular
conditions? Years ago, my aunt and uncle had an open cesspit in Corpus
Christi (over beach sand) and it was the greenest spot in the yard. Effluent
here is treated anaerobically first.
Obviously, you've had success with your method. Thanks for the info.
For myself, I just bought a $20 dual aquarium air pump, splitters and
airstones for four 5-gallon buckets to make aerobic alfalfa tea. Two others
will make compost tea.
The 50 lb. sack of alfalfa meal cost me $9.00, no tax on farm feed...

"Starlord" wrote in message
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Alfalfa is a Nigon fixer in the soil, much like clover, you would have to
add sugar to it.

My best back of it I do the following:

In a steel tub I place alfafa ( I use raw HAY ) and I fill it with water,
making sure that the hay is well soaked.

I let that sit for about an hour, I then use plactic buckets and by hand I
slowly remove the hay, squeeing it to take out most of the water. I get
the
steams, and the leaves form a fine mash.

The hay and leaves go into a 55gal trash can to be hauled out to my garden
and used. The water mix I then put back in the steel tub and I add one or
two hansfull of steer manure and mix it in good.

I then let this sit for another hour, I then repeat what I did with the
hay.
I then take the tea that has been made and put it in soda pop plastic
bottles which I take out by the garden and for one day, starting in the am
let them cook in the high mojave desert sun, sometimes reaching 100F
outside.

I then that night, place the bottles in a area out of the sun and use them
during the summer.


"cat daddy" wrote in message
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I suppose merely soaking it doesn't release all the goodies into the
water.

From the website:
"Dry alfalfa is a good slow-release source of nitrogen, but since you
will
be "digesting" it by letting it ferment in water, the resulting tea is a
soluable, fast-acting nitrogen source."

Now I'm wondering if making it aerobic with an airstone would be good,
bad or indifferent, just like compost tea..........

And a really tight cover is a good idea- the latch batch I made found a
fruit rat swimming in it :-0