Seaweed in the garden

[Bjerreby]

It was a few years ago in Brittany that I realized seaweed is good for the garden. People there collect it by the barrow load.

Now I've shifted to Denmark, and I have huge deposits of eel grass on my doorstep. I've dug a lot of it into my new vegetable beds, which were heavy clay, and it has worked wonders.  :) I've also made seaweed extract of it. Eel grass also makes a very fine mulch, and I have stored my dug-up Jerusalem artichokes under seaweed too.




The thing is, I am a novice at growing vegetables, and I have gone to these lengths because of a few books and articles I have read about seaweed in the garden.

Do any of you have experience with seaweed for soil improvement, as a fertilizer, or as a foliar spray?

[Bjerreby]

[saddad]

We use it as a granular/ foliar feed, we have to buy it, being as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England! DebP has brought some back from Wales to use as a top mulch...  :)

[Bjerreby]

THAT is sad saddad. Here I am with all this stuff on the doorstep and you have to BUY it!

[tonybloke]

I use the waste from the seaweed liquid (SM3 etc) factory. great as a soil conditioner, food, mulch, slug repellant, compost activator, etc etc Stone age man and woman used nothing else on the hebrides and other scottish islands, the irish use tons of it! ;)

[chriscross1966]

I saw the thread title and was thinking "Lawks, and I thought we had a flooding issue in Oxford!" ::)

[saddad]

Global warming,   if I don't set them off again!  ;D

[Little Bee]

I heard or read...can't remember now :-\ that if you have young seedlings/baby plants that have been sitting around for approx 8 weeks that they benefit from a foliage spray of maxicrop seaweed.
I have cabbages and kale in the greenhouse so i gave them a dose yesterday....will wait and see if there is an obvious boost :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

I saw the thread title and was thinking "Lawks, and I thought we had a flooding issue in Oxford!" ::)

Whereabouts in Oxford?