My daylily beds are actually made from decomposed leaves and grass, and mulched with leaves and grass, and I throw the alfalfa right on top, use my rake or potato hoe to work it just under the surface. I do it as a precaution. I have opossums, Raccoons, armadillos, rabbits (very few) and deer, so I try to persuade myself I am not attracting them with the alfalfa. I have never seen any of the critters eat it, even when I sometimes did leave it on the surface. What they really like to do is dig up my daylilies to get at all the earth worms. I had to replant two yesterday morning, the earth worms love to cluster right in the center of the daylily roots and the critters have figured that out.
Just left on the surface it sometimes takes the pellets a while to degrade, put under the mulch where the worms can work it, it disappears pretty fast.
