When we go to our local sea shore we walk for about an hour most of the time Meg's running all over the place, none stop. We come home and Meg brings me a toy to throw. Relentless! she certainly is.
My top 10 Do's and Don'ts of collecting seaweed and using it as a soil improver. 1. Only take seaweed from the high water mark where it has 'washed up'. 2. Never pull or cut seaweed from the rocks. It's part of the living eco system. 3. Collect it in winter when the sand hoppers and flies have all gone. 4. Empty your bags out and expose the seaweed to the winter weather. 5. Never store seaweed in plastic bags its likely to turn putrid and stink. 6. Don't worry about salt. Its largely residual, there isn't much of it anyway and a few showers of rain will wash it off. 7. Don't put a hose pipe over it to speed up the wash it's not necessary and its wasteful. 8. Make a final check for pebbles or fishing line in the seaweed if you're going to put your lawnmower over it to make 'chop and drop' 9. A thin covering of seaweed on any bare soil is all that's needed. 10. Seaweed collected near an estuary is likely to be 'Shot through' with Autumn leaves that have floated downstream into the sea. That's your green brown mix ready to go. And finally. If you've done all this your work is done! No need to do any more other than hunker down until next spring, when your soil will be good to go for another year.
I have plenty of leaves, but no seaweed as I live in Ohio. Some of my buckets are still in action, as my greenhouse is a lot smaller than yours and holds heat better. I'm still pulling carrots, radishes, kale, White Chinese Celery and Louisiana Evergreen Shallots as my wife and I need them.
Hello Greg. The growing / harvesting side of gardening ended for me at the back end of September. We've some frost since than so its just been tidy up time and some soil maintenance for me. Good luck with all you grow . Jim.
Grass would be my substitute for seaweed, a quick run over the lawn with the mower when the weather permits should do it. Failing that just go with the leaves and any chopped up vegetable leaves you have and save the liquid seaweed fertiliser to water onto the soil as your plants grow.
I will collect some seaweed, and try it on my soil buckets, next spring, thankyou for the video. 👍😊
I love how he just throws the dog toy over and over and never breaks his focus. That dog is relentless!
When we go to our local sea shore we walk for about an hour most of the time Meg's running all over the place, none stop. We come home and Meg brings me a toy to throw. Relentless! she certainly is.
My top 10 Do's and Don'ts of collecting seaweed and using it as a soil improver.
1. Only take seaweed from the high water mark where it has 'washed up'.
2. Never pull or cut seaweed from the rocks. It's part of the living eco system.
3. Collect it in winter when the sand hoppers and flies have all gone.
4. Empty your bags out and expose the seaweed to the winter weather.
5. Never store seaweed in plastic bags its likely to turn putrid and stink.
6. Don't worry about salt. Its largely residual, there isn't much of it anyway and a few showers of rain will wash it off.
7. Don't put a hose pipe over it to speed up the wash it's not necessary and its wasteful.
8. Make a final check for pebbles or fishing line in the seaweed if you're going to put your lawnmower over it to make 'chop and drop'
9. A thin covering of seaweed on any bare soil is all that's needed.
10. Seaweed collected near an estuary is likely to be 'Shot through' with Autumn leaves that have floated downstream into the sea. That's your green brown mix ready to go.
And finally. If you've done all this your work is done! No need to do any more other than hunker down until next spring, when your soil will be good to go for another year.
and away they go, to see what's in the seaweed
I have plenty of leaves, but no seaweed as I live in Ohio. Some of my buckets are still in action, as my greenhouse is a lot smaller than yours and holds heat better. I'm still pulling carrots, radishes, kale, White Chinese Celery and Louisiana Evergreen Shallots as my wife and I need them.
Hello Greg. The growing / harvesting side of gardening ended for me at the back end of September. We've some frost since than so its just been tidy up time and some soil maintenance for me. Good luck with all you grow . Jim.
I can't get to the beach but I've got plenty of leaves can I use liquid seaweed instead
Grass would be my substitute for seaweed, a quick run over the lawn with the mower when the weather permits should do it. Failing that just go with the leaves and any chopped up vegetable leaves you have and save the liquid seaweed fertiliser to water onto the soil as your plants grow.