One good thing to come out of the storms is the fresh seaweed blown onto the beaches. Although seaweed (kelp) isn’t the most attractive thing you can put on the garden, it certainly is very useful, especially as winter mulch around the beds and borders. The look of seaweed can be improved if it is finely chopped, but I tend not to bother as it soon starts to rot down, releasing potash, sodium, boron, iodine and other valuable trace elements.
We are in a perfect location for making good use of this free natural resource, as we have so many places we can go and collect the odd bag. You can buy seaweed meal in a concentrated liquid form, but it is quite expensive. If it is collected off the beach then you may have to wash it a couple of times to get the excess salt out of it. Don’t worry about getting all the salt out, as what’s left will probably benefit the soil rather than harm it.
Horticultural.
We are in a perfect location for making good use of this free natural resource, as we have so many places we can go and collect the odd bag. You can buy seaweed meal in a concentrated liquid form, but it is quite expensive. If it is collected off the beach then you may have to wash it a couple of times to get the excess salt out of it. Don’t worry about getting all the salt out, as what’s left will probably benefit the soil rather than harm it.
Horticultural.
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That seweed looks cool.
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