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I collected seaweed yesterday as I read it is good for the garden. Now I can't remember where I read about it.
Any ideas please on what I can use it on?
Any ideas please on what I can use it on?
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At this time of the year....you might find it doesn't rot well if spread as a mulch now. I'd compost it first(makes your heap really fizz) or make seaweed 'tea' (smell revolting but great tonic/feed with lots of trace elements)
Traditionally used on asparagus and potatoes.(bed prep or Autumn mulch) but good for a lot of things -
I dig it in to or under beds in a trench, pretty much prior to planting - it does break down very quickly once in the soil especially if the grounds warm.Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the gray, seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!Comment
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Just moved to an area plentiful in seaweed. Make sure you take "dead" seaweed. Give it a quick wash in the sea to let any beasties escape. Any still attatched to a stone, leave it alone. Then soak it in water to get any excess salt out. As I am late in getting plots this year, I have cut it up smallish and dug into potato bed.
You can also soak it to get some great plant food. Have yet to do this, but from what I have read, just soak seaweed for a few weeks, easier to put seaweed in a porous bag - pillowcase, net bag - so you can take it out and throw in compost bin - soaking seaweed is very gooey and smelly!.ElsieComment
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My seaweed soup has been brewing since last October and has had 3 changes of seaweed to extract as much nutrient as possible. It's in a big plastic drum and when I took the top off last week and stirred it up it really did stink. So much so that I was worried the neighbours might complain. Anyway, end result is nearly 5 gallons of thick, gloopy liquid feed which I dilute about 20 to 1. The spent seaweed just goes on the compost heap.Comment
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