On 15/06/2018 11:15, Andy Burns wrote:

Chris Hogg wrote:

the flavour of JR's was because it was traditional in the Channel
Isles heavily to manure the potato fields with seaweed every year,
locally called vraic, a practice which has died out, being quite
labour intensive.
A page about it here ...
https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Vraic

Very interesting article Thanks for posting.