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How to use this product/ Shropshire seaweed
Gardener Eve
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Morning!
I bought this product- Shopshire seaweed- online as an "organic growth enhancer" but when it arrived the bottle instructions said to apply as a foliar spray.
I do not have the equipment to do this and was planning to apply it to the roots via watering can.
I've tried contacting the company a couple of times but nobodys gotten back to me, to see if that would be okay or if there is some reason why it has to go on as a foliar spray.
Has anyone used this before? I was especially planning to use it on my potted olive tree and trachelospermum jasmine…
My olive tree going a bit thin on leaves and trachelospermum jasmine is suffering from aphids & that sooty stuff so wanted to give them a boost (organic)
thanks!!
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you can get a little plastic spray bottle for very little money. Mine cost £1.
In the sticks near Peterborough
http://www.screwfix.com/p/trigger-sprayer-atomizer-500ml/36156?kpid=36156&gclid=Cj0KEQjwt6fHBRDtm9O8xPPHq4gBEiQAdxotvMeX-UlGqyilyCzW__gOf-mlq6YvAWptD2lF7sn5yXcaAoXg8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CIOnj7KJl9MCFRIg0wodFy8BGQ
Lots of places sell them, not just Screwfix
In the sticks near Peterborough
I can't think why you shouldn't use it as a root feed, most seaweed products can be used as a soil drench or foliar spray. It's a supplement, so you won't do any harm.
It's probably scale insect on your star jasmine - I get it on mine in a hot summer and the soil dries out, the plant gets stressed and the scale insects take advantage.
There are sprays that do work if you choose that route.
It seems very expensive for a seaweed product.
Much cheaper on Amazon
Last edited: 09 April 2017 12:35:44
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Is there a lot of seaweed in Shropshire?
Good question
I'm off to wet Wales to plant blight resistant potatoes for the sister in law this week. If you see a mad woman on Harlech or Criccieth beach collecting seaweed in trug buckets, its me. I figure if it works for Jersey royals, it should work for these as well.
Apparently Shropshire seaweed is dried bladderwrack or knotted wrack from Ireland. Then they cold press it. I wonder if Shropshire trading standards could decide if (Shropshire seaweed)that is a false trade description.
The Shropshire Connection
So, how did a landlocked county produce a seaweed company?
Over 100 miles from the nearest coastline, Shropshire is the last place you'd expect to find a seaweed company. When we tell local people what we do, they often look at us like we're completely mad! However, here in the heart of rural England, we do think we know a thing or two about organic living and 'the good life,' which is what drove us to develop Shropshire Seaweed.
Of course, there's no seaweed to be found growing around these parts. We have to go to Ireland for that. The waters there are some of the cleanest in the North Atlantic, which helps to produce the healthiest and best Ascophyllum nodosum around. All the seaweed we use is grown and harvested on a sustainable scale, then it's dried and brought by sea for processing.
There we go than I have used this both for root and folier feed with great results and as a soil improver
changing the subject squashed five lily beetles today here in the north east ,little s----s
I squashed seven. Three pairs were mating. That spoiled their fun. I will get the spray out on Tuesday.