Very true on all counts Verdun and we are within 20 minutes of long beaches although these days you are not allowed to take stuff from the beach, saying that people leave plenty of stuff on the beach, we would take our rubbish home along with some sea weed. Dads secret weapon was sea weed, we always had a metal drum of the stuff soaking in water that was then watered onto the vegetables, the Iodine must have worked wonders. I suppose we all have our fads, I do not spread wood of any sort on my garden but then I make plenty of good compost.
hi all ,I live 1 mile from the beach. can I collect seaweed let it dry out and make a powder out of it .I do that with egg shells and its great in the tomato garden, I grind them up in an old coffee grinder
Many thanks for the all your replies. I think I am going to apply it now as a fair number of you do so, plus it gets the bags out of my garage! I believe the nitrogen depletion problem is reduced if the bark or wood chips are 'weathered' for a year. Rather doubt if commercial bark treated this way.
Posts
Back to mulching , "small areas "of my garden I put gravel down , very effective
I do agree use what you have got , particularly if it is cheap or better still free
At the allottment I use horse manure and shredding tree bits , although the the later is mainly for paths
Have used bark Chipping's very effective at keeping weeds down and with a bit of bone meal in the Spring / Autumn , works well for me
Very true on all counts Verdun and we are within 20 minutes of long beaches although these days you are not allowed to take stuff from the beach, saying that people leave plenty of stuff on the beach, we would take our rubbish home along with some sea weed. Dads secret weapon was sea weed, we always had a metal drum of the stuff soaking in water that was then watered onto the vegetables, the Iodine must have worked wonders. I suppose we all have our fads, I do not spread wood of any sort on my garden but then I make plenty of good compost.
Frank.
Do you not wash the salt of the sea weed then Verdun, I always thought salt was bad for the garden.
Its a marvelous slug deterant though.
hi all ,I live 1 mile from the beach. can I collect seaweed let it dry out and make a powder out of it .I do that with egg shells and its great in the tomato garden, I grind them up in an old coffee grinder
Many thanks for the all your replies. I think I am going to apply it now as a fair number of you do so, plus it gets the bags out of my garage! I believe the nitrogen depletion problem is reduced if the bark or wood chips are 'weathered' for a year. Rather doubt if commercial bark treated this way.