On 10/9/04 22:31, in article , "roy
davidson" wrote:

The shore is about 300 meters from the house, any tips for using seaweed to
fertalise the garden?

cheers roy


There was a thread about this a month or two ago. But basically, bring it
ashore and dump it on your veg patch in the autumn. That is when the storms
tend to wash up great piles or bladder wrack which is what is most used,
AFAIK. Over the winter, it will rot down and give valuable nutrients to the
soil.
This will give you some information.
http://www.societe-jersiaise.org/langsec/vraic.html

Here's a quote from the site:
"Work by F Woodland Toms, Jersey's Official Analyst for over 40 years, shows
that dried vraic is three to four times as effective as a fertiliser than
the fresh weed."

(There are about 2.5 vergees to the acre)

On grazing land, the farmers believed it acted as a sort of disinfectant.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)