Re: it's rooted, seaweed [kelp]

Have you never eaten in Japanese restaurant Pam?  Sushi is wrapped with seaweed.
Misu soup has seaweed.  Spirolina (sp) that wretched drink is seaweed.  Seaweed is
probably one of the foods of the future.  Abundant and full of vitamins and other
good things.

DF

"Pamela J. Evans" wrote:

> hold the phone, people EAT this stuff??  Brrrrrr.
> :-P
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:06:56 -0500
>
> >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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> >> > >>Kemp TX/zone 8A
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