Re: it's rooted, seaweed [kelp]

if it was dried for agricultural use, i'd say sure. if it was dried for human or animal food, i don't think i'd use it only because you don't have much assurance that the excess nacl was thoroughly washed off.


At 08:43 PM 12/14/02 -0500, you wrote:
I have some dried dried kelp.  Would it help to scratch a little into the
soil of houseplants?
Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: Pamela J. Evans <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 12/14/2002 6:37:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] ot gardening [snicker] it's rooted
>
> I adore kelp - it's good for everything!  Diluted on house plants and
containers, makes a great fertilizer for everything in the yard, even as a
foliar feed for my roses and peppers mixed w/ a little Neem to keep the
fungal diseases at bay.  I couldn't do w/out it!!
>
> Pam
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:21:37 -0500
>
> >probably wouldn't hurt. could help. kelp is gentle stuff and generally
good
> >for maintaining the status quo--and that's what you want here. keep the
> >dilution up [50-100:1] come spring you'll want to burn the barn in a
> >potting mix laced with blood, bone, and cotton seed--and horse manure
[if
> >you can get it].
> >
> >
> >At 05:05 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Jim - do you think of dab of liquid kelp in the water might help
nutrient
> >>wise?  Or would that be too much??
> >>
> >>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> >>From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> >>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>Date:  Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:45:24 -0500
> >>
> >> >this is exciting, donna. this is what i would do if i lived where you
do.
> >> >1. i would keep the rooted cutting in water, but 2. i would make sure
the
> >> >water was sweet [add charcoal nuggets, replenish with bottled "spring"
> >> >water]. 3. i would try to keep the level of light and temperature the
same
> >> >[constant] as the rooting level. 4. i would keep my fingers crossed
until
> >> >spring.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >At 03:34 PM 12/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
> >> >>Sorry for the cross posts...
> >> >>
> >> >>Some of you may recall in the spring I was trying to id a tree,
Prunus
> >> >>serrulata 'Shirofugen.' (yeah, I know about a million messages ago)
> >> >>
> >> >>As I was unearthing a spare bedroom that was filled with X-Mas
packages,
> >> >>I found the branch, and still had water in the bottle that contained
it.
> >> >>( how did that happen!)
> >> >>
> >> >>It appears to have many small roots on it now. Since I live in zone
5,
> >> >>the weather is already winter, and the ground is frozen. Although
nature
> >> >>has already taken care of this soon to be tree, and it obviously
wants
> >> >>to live, what should I do to help it along? Leave it and add
nutrients
> >> >>to the water? Try potting it up and move it to a better light
location?
> >> >>Bury it back in the corner where it was? Duh?
> >> >>
> >> >>Donna
> >> >>IL, Zone 5..
> >> >
> >> >jsinger@igc.org
> >> >
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