Seaweed brew
Here’s a good excuse for a trip to the beach — collecting seaweed to use as a garden fertilizer. Seaweed is rich in several micro-nutrients that are hard to get from other sources. The best way to use seaweed is to soak it in water for a couple of weeks and pour on the garden. Here’s a picture of the ‘brew’ :
The water has already gone quite brown, even though it’s only been soaking for a few days. It’s currently brewing in a 20L plastic bucket, but I’m keeping an eye out for a bigger container.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Do you rinse it to reduce salt content first?
August 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Thanks Sarah, that’s an important point that I forgot to mention. After conquering Carthage in the third Punic War, the Romans are said to have put salt on the fields so they couldn’t grow crops. Whether this is true or not, it’s probably best that we don’t salt our own gardens!