Thanks for all that.There seems little doubt that it is good stuff however it is applied and I suppose it could be added as one of the layers on the compost heap.Thanks also for the warning re legality etc. - I will ring the local council,If you don`t hear from me again you will know that I`m banged up in The Tower
Check you local by laws to see if you can collect it legally or ring your council.
It makes excellent liquid feed. Toms and spuds particularly like it. Seaweed feed can easily be made in an old bin, half/three quarters full of water, with a couple of pierced bags of seaweed immersed in the water and with a lid on the bin. After six weeks the liquid can be bottled up, the litre plastic milk cartons are an ideal size. Half a carton to a watering can is enough to dilute it ready for use on the garden. If it's left longer to brew than it might need watering down further.
In liquid form it can also be used as a spray to deter black/green fly. I don't think slugs and snails like it either but the jury's still out on that one. It smells very strong used in liquid form but this goes, a couple of hours after spraying.
It works well as a mulch too, put round the top of pots, it dries out very quickly, goes black, with no smell and rots down quickly.
The wet stuff from your bin can be dug into beds or mixed with compost.
I have been in touch with the local council who are happy to turn a blind eye to the collecting of small quantities of seaweed ( they weren`t actually sure whose problem it was anyway ).I shall wash it before using it in some of the ways described above, and report on results next season - thanks again.
I use sea weed ,I do the soak in the bucket and then take out sea weed after 2wks and then put weed on garden it breaks down eventually and use the liquid as a feed,diluted of course.
i have used seaweed for several years, never asked permission, never been told i can't take it. I just put it on veg beds quite thickly about now to rot down over winter, i never wash it. better than manure- no weed seeds!
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Thanks for all that.There seems little doubt that it is good stuff however it is applied and I suppose it could be added as one of the layers on the compost heap.Thanks also for the warning re legality etc. - I will ring the local council,If you don`t hear from me again you will know that I`m banged up in The Tower
Check you local by laws to see if you can collect it legally or ring your council.
It makes excellent liquid feed. Toms and spuds particularly like it. Seaweed feed can easily be made in an old bin, half/three quarters full of water, with a couple of pierced bags of seaweed immersed in the water and with a lid on the bin. After six weeks the liquid can be bottled up, the litre plastic milk cartons are an ideal size. Half a carton to a watering can is enough to dilute it ready for use on the garden. If it's left longer to brew than it might need watering down further.
In liquid form it can also be used as a spray to deter black/green fly. I don't think slugs and snails like it either but the jury's still out on that one. It smells very strong used in liquid form
but this goes, a couple of hours after spraying.
It works well as a mulch too, put round the top of pots, it dries out very quickly, goes black, with no smell and rots down quickly.
The wet stuff from your bin can be dug into beds or mixed with compost.
I seem to remember reading somewhere something about leaving it out over the winter to get it rained on to wash the salt off.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can also wash the salt off in a bucket.
I have been in touch with the local council who are happy to turn a blind eye to the collecting of small quantities of seaweed ( they weren`t actually sure whose problem it was anyway ).I shall wash it before using it in some of the ways described above, and report on results next season - thanks again.
well done Jackers
,we haven't actually washed the seaweed but good luck
Alan4711
I use sea weed ,I do the soak in the bucket and then take out sea weed after 2wks and then put weed on garden it breaks down eventually and use the
liquid as a feed,diluted of course.
i have used seaweed for several years, never asked permission, never been told i can't take it. I just put it on veg beds quite thickly about now to rot down over winter, i never wash it. better than manure- no weed seeds!
Thanks Jenny, Thanks Verdun - I`m onit , innit.