Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Buddy Pack

Alfalfa has a number of uses as a companion plant

ALFALFA

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a deep-rooted perennial that helps to hinder evaporation, lessening time between waterings and helping other plants out during dry spells. Alfalfa is a nitrogen fixing plant and also accumulates iron, magnesium, phosphorous and potassium. Those five minerals are music to any organic cannabis grower's ears.

Alfalfa encourages dandelions, another deep-rooted plant that will move in when the alfalfa dies back. Continuing to break up the soil and aid water penetration and retention. Remember when planning your garden that alfalfa can grow to a metre tall. Trimming stalks and tops regularly, drying out and making a healthful tea to spray on the whole garden. Alfalfa tea is renowned for encouraging growth in other plants including cannabis. Rather than waiting for them to turn up by themselves, you can sow Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Seeds alongside from the start, a perennial taproot working the soil well below the alfalfa's own reach.

It notably repels lygus bugs and attracts predatory wasps and assassin bugs, but should be planted with other species that repel aphids, army worms and alfalfa weevil. Ladybugs are attracted by alfalfa and are a beneficial boon to any garden, they are the lions on the Serengeti of your cannabis plants. Alfalfa is a deep-rooted perennial for sunny, well-drained ground, sown in spring, and it is one of many options in our range of flower seeds. Both this set and the White Clover (Trifolium repens) Buddy Pack pair a pea-family legume with a crop, only the latter stays flat as a living mulch.

CONTENTS: 1 grams

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