How to plant them in the garden

When is it worth planting?

When you grow alfalfa in your garden, you can count on the following gifts:

• nitrogenous green manure
• a loosened soil
• Feed for animals

Location for cultivation

as Green manure you can plant this butterfly in areas that can use a replenishment of the nitrogen depot. Even compacted soils can be loosened up again thanks to its deep roots, if necessary by cultivating it for several years.

who Alfalfa as food If you want to grow for yourself or as fodder for animals, you should offer them a sunny and dry place. The soil should also be loosened up deeply by digging and enriched with compost.

The ideal time to sow

If you want to harvest the alfalfa in the same year, you should sow the seeds early in the spring. This is already possible from March. With green manure, however, you can take longer. Of the

Time of cultivation may be postponed until the end of August at the latest.

Seeds and sowing

If you don't already have a Seeds you can buy it cheaply in stores. The recommended Seed strength is 2 grams per m².

• Spread the seeds over a wide area
• approx. Work 1 cm deep into the ground
• water thoroughly
• cover until germination (as protection from birds)

To harvest

To harvest is possible up to four times a year by cutting the alfalfa as fodder. If their cultivation is planned for several years, the plants should be allowed to bloom once a year.

Young, tender leaves can be picked at any time for salads, soups, or sauces, while mature seeds can be harvested some time after flowering.

Use as green manure

The alfalfa serve exclusively as a Green manure, they are left standing over the winter. In spring, the plants are completely buried in the ground, where the stored nitrogen is released when they rot.