Zilla Alfalfa Meal

This item was meant to be used as bedding for a bearded dragon. I opened the bag up and poured a good layer into my cage. Then I noticed that it was full of insects. It was not stored properly and was infested with at least 5 different species. I will never buy this stuff from here again. I suggest going to your local feed store and buying alfalfa pellets meant as animal feed. They are much cheaper and you get a lot more.

I'm using this Zilla Alfalfa Meal in a 70/30 mix with Zoo Med's Eco Earth for my juvenile Chinese Water Dragon. I was using a reptile bark and he would always eat bits of the bark which made me really nervous! I've switched to this and it's working out great! 70% Eco Earth and 30% Alfalfa Meal pellets. It gives a bit of texture to the substrate instead of having just loose soil, and if he happens to eat it, it's no big deal. Whew, what a relief! I will say that one drawback to this is the strong farm/field odor it has. It seems much stronger in the bag but when mixed with the loose Eco Earth in the tank I don't notice the smell much at all. Overall, I'm very, very happy! I think I've finally found my perfect susbstrate.

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I was looking for some bedding that I could use for my iguana because he invariably ends up consuming a little of the bedding along with his veggies. Since this is nothing more than pelletized alfalfa it makes the perfect bedding because it's really absorbent AND fully digestible when he happens to get a few of the pellets in his mouth along with the leafy greens. One extra benefit is that I can use it in my raised bed garden to add some extra nitrogen for my corn (nitrogen HOG). I've never grown better corn then what I did when I started side dressing it with this. Short of just letting my iguana run around pooping in my corn patch, this stuff is fantastic!

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This product arrived quickly and in fine shape. It is shipped in a shallow box containing the pellets in a plastic bag. When the bag is opened, the product does give the odor of hay fields, which was expected and acceptable. (To me that signals fresh.) It serves my purposes wonderfully.

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I wanted to make my lawn look better, and I was going to hire a service since I don't know a thing about grass care. After a little reading I discovered that the chemical lawn companies are in the business of turning your lawn into a crack head for their products, which kill your soil and make your lawn dependent on chemicals to survive.

So, I decided to go the organic route. I am "mowing high", leaving the grass at 3.5 inches or longer, and adding organic material to the lawn. I mixed up a batch of this alfalfa meal, a couple of buckets of compost my neighbor generously gave me, two pounds of greensand, and two pounds of lime for my less-than-1000-square foot lawn and threw it around with a trowel. Then I forced my teenager to pull the dandelions, and that was it. Not very scientific, and I didn't really expect much.

However...

My lawn is now the envy of my block. Seriously. I still have a few weeds and some small bare spots, but the grass is SO green, and thick, and healthy, it almost looks like I had sod put in. It cost around 35 bucks and the aggravation of getting my kid to pull weeds once. Win! I could probably get the alfalfa cheaper but the depth and breadth of my laziness is as yet unplumbed...I could not resist getting it delivered.

If you want a nice lawn but don't want to pay a lot of money for someone to pour chemicals and poisons around your house, google "organic lawn care". You don't have to use alfalfa, but it seems to have worked out well for me.