Dietrich, Idaho and Mountain Home, Idaho | Last year we had some rotten pinto beans(don't ask, it just happened) we scattered out in one of our old, old alfalfa fields where the quackgrass had gotten thick to see what would happen. Well the picture below shows a little of what happened. The quackgrass/alfalfa was big, dark green and very lush compared to the unfertilized quackgrass/alfalfa and produced close to 3 times as much hay. It grew so big it lodged and was very difficult to rake into a windrow narrow enough to straddle when baling with our 3x4 big square baler. Anyway, does anyone have any idea what it is in the beans that makes them such a good fertilizer? When they would get wet they had a very stong ammonia smell to them. By the way we did this one time before in some wheat with the same results(scattered some very old beans out that wouldn't be good for seed or eating).
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Anyone know what makes beans such good fertilizer?(pic)
