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Old November 6, 2016   #14
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Originally Posted by TC_Manhattan View Post
You can buy alfalfa meal as meal/powder in 50 lb. bags, and is usually cheaper than the alfalfa meal pellets (pelletizing adds to the cost).

It is actually one of the components in Epsom's line of organic "-Tone" fertilizers.
Deer won't be able to eat the meal powder and it breaks down and works in faster than the pellets.

Cottonseed meal is another amendment that is cheap when bought at a feed store in 50 lb. bags (don't buy the stuff labeled for garden or lawn use, it's way more pricey.)

Worth wrote a whole diatribe about cottonseed meal and its marketing some time ago.
Always looking out for my friends and the best price available.
I never will forget the look on that girls face at the feed store when she compared prices.
1 pound garden cotton seed meal $10.00 50 pounds cow food $10.00.
dont even get me started on pickling lime garden lime VS builders lime AKA Calcium Hydroxide, the same stuff you make hominy with.
Hydrated lime 50 pounds 8.91.
Garden lime 5 pound 8.95.
Pickling lime 1 pound 4.68.

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