Seaweed'n'Salinity

Susan - re your query -

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?

All I can say is that in UK conditions this doesn't seem to be a
problem. Like Dave Poole, I just bung it on, have done for years, and
have never noticed any adverse effects. Indeed, very much the reverse.
On the other hand, our soils aren't your soils and, perhaps just as
importantly, our rainfall isn't your rainfall! Here, the seaweed tends
to get vigorously and repeatedly washed as soon as it hits the beds -
not by me but by the heavens. That's a (minor) reason for putting it
on in our autumn, which is a maximum period for rain in our anyway
rainy climate. 

If you have a particularly saline soil to begin with then I dare say
more care would be needed but you really need an Aussie correspondent
to provide the local facts. My own feeling would be that if I had to
go through a rigorous washing and re-washing programme before I could
use the stuff, I probably wouldn't bother, since its great advantages
are that it's readily available and equally readily usable.

Tim


Tim Longville
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