Re: Seaweed as Mulch/Fertilizer

Tim

the only thing that I have wondered is whether the salt on the seaweed 
impacts on soil salinity levels? (a major prob for Aust soils) I have been 
told that it doesn't, but still not entirely sure? Any info?

(As for dogs and their many disgusting habits .... well ... the more stinky 
and rotten the better really ... one of mine has just had its prize trophy 
confiscated ... a petrified flattened possum of questionable vintage)

Susan George
McCrae, Australia


>From: tim@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
>Reply-To: tim@eddy.u-net.com
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Seaweed as Mulch/Fertilizer
>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:39:39 GMT
>
>You certainly can use seaweed almost directly on the garden, though I
>prefer to let it dry out for a week or two, not because of any effect
>or lack of it on the plants but because of the effect of the smell of
>lots of fresh seaweed (a) on unsuspecting visitors, (b) on our ancient
>crazed Labrador, to whom it's very nearly the ultimate turn-on - he
>rips it off the beds and rolls in it ecstatically. (It needs an
>x-rated adults-only list to deal with the ACTUAL ultimate turn-on. I
>did say he was crazed...) I use it as much as a manure as a mulch, so
>I rough-cut it while it's drying out, to encourage it to rot down - I
>usually apply it in autumn and it's more or less absorbed by the time
>the birds begin playing nesting-games in the spring with any loose
>surfacing material.
>
>(I should add that another possible disadvantage is that you tend to
>get funny looks from semi-stranger passengers in your car, if, like
>me, you spend a week or two of evenings around this time of year
>running the car between house and beach with its boot stuffed with
>loads of seaweed. When the seaweed is no longer there but the smell
>very certainly still is.... Well, you see the problem.)
>
>
>Tim Longville
>
>


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