Make Your Own Seaweed Fertilizer

[@easyhow-toguy1493]

Started doing this in my vege garden a month ago, has double the size of all my produce. Thank you!!

[@kazzybaby466]

Very helpful!!! About to put some to dry, some straight on a raised bed and some in a bucket with water! Thanks

[@astrangeone]

I like eating seaweed, and it's darn delicious. I'm starting some seaweed tea with store bought seaweed. I have a grow box of jalapeno peppers in my room, and they are starting to get true leaves! I don't mind weird smells...

[@wiskytom4386]

I collect fresh seaweed black, green, red and stick it in a blender and use 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of water... The salt seems to kill weeds too

[@nic.h]

You can also add it as a good source of green material to compost. I rinse it to avoid salt build up, run over it with a mower to chop it up and make decomposition faster and then add as a green layer to compost as normal. It can attract some bugs until it mixed into the compost from my experience, but nothing major to worry about really.

[@emmabancroft7760]

I use it lots. As a mulch it has the added bonus of keeping slugs and snails off your plants, they don't like to crawl over it, they seem to be put off by the saltiness.

[@listenup2882]

Don't you rinse your seaweed first?

[@michelleirish4878]

Thank you!!! I enjoyed all this information and what you do with seaweed. I got some! and it's on my garden as we speak.

[@Growyourheirlooms]

Sounds great!

[@rachaelalcazar5931]

can you use any kind of seaweed? or is there a specific type you need to use?

[@KASA0828]

What if I left it longer than few weeks? (Like a month and half?) it’s still ok?

[@usahanara7052]

Where to get seaweed? On the beach?

[@jerryjencik3879]

I dry it then put it through a shredder and mix it with my garden soil, works miracles

[@sharonlee902]

Can you tell us what kind of shredder you use?

[@myatix1]

I can collect seaweed from our local beach! Do I not need to rinse the salt off the seaweed first?

[@Growyourheirlooms]

Yes I would

[@ryanjofre]

Rinse the crap out of it. The excess salt will poison your medium/soil!!!

[@islandgardener158]

We apply several hands full of seaweed to our beds in the fall, directly on the soil, have never rinsed it, then cover with mulched leaves. Maybe because we get so much winter rain, we don’t need to rinse.

[@jeanlaikan8400]

With the sea weeds do you still need other sources of fertiliser, organic or chemical?

[@Growyourheirlooms]

I don't use any chemicals or commercial fertilizer in my gardens, So no, I don't

[@babu8848]

Which sea weed fertilizer I purchase from market red or brown sea weed

[@jamessones4044]

Concentrated root promoter which is humid and seaweed is very expensive.

[@joescott3393]

You are going to drive (Dr) Mittleider crazy with all those nutrients. HA HA! Here in southern British Columbia you need a special licence if you go out and harvest seaweed from the ocean, but if it is on the beach it is help yourself. When I break new ground I will dig in seaweed, leaves and grass or ? to break down over the winter. I also use 100's of pounds of seaweed in my compost piles. Most garden centres will carry ground seaweed in bags. God Bless

[@asabagrendel]

Thanks for the advice. It would be mighty expensive to buy edible ogo or nori for fertilizer in Hawaii, but collecting the non-native invasive species at the beach is good for the environment.

[@astrangeone]

+asabagrendel I'm using a type I bought in my local asian market - $1.69 for large packet. I'm going to use it diluted for an hydroponics set up - clearly cheaper than the chemicals commonly used in it. I'm growing hot peppers with this set up.

[@sharonx1840]

good video thankyou please can you tell me why you have to dry the seaweed first and you cannot use it straight out the sea?thankyou shaz

[@tracyleal2609]

You can use it straight from beach, collect at high tide mark , to out of ocean.

[@jacobbrizammito7187]

I never seriously considered that it may be regulated in my area. I will have to check. Thanks for the tipd

[@Growyourheirlooms]

YW

[@tomh8782]

@@Growyourheirlooms hi I was just wondering I have an avacado plant growing in a fairly large pot of around 75- 90 litre pot full of organic horse manure compost. I came account your KZbin channel about using seaweed liquid fertilisers. My avacado plant which is now approximately 1.8 metres tall has leaves turning brown at the tips. I do not want to use harsh chemical fertilizers is there by any chance that seaweed liquid fertilisers are any good for avacado plants? I do live over in the UK so very windy and very frequently raining, but having grown my avacado plant from seed now around 2-3 years I do think it requires some sort of fertilisation as just watering the plant isn't doing very much just more leaves turning brown and crumbling off. If you have any kind advice or tips on growing avocado plants it would be very helpful and great. Thank you, Kind regards, Tom.

[@grantryan9591]

I live in Brisbane Australia and We're not allowed to remove it from the beach,shore,ocean etc

[@sweetheartsmom]

what are your thoughts on non N E coasts? like CA (ie radiation risk?)

[@Growyourheirlooms]

Where I am, radiation levels have been tested and found to be fine. There are Gov't websites for people who are concerned.

[@MrSelfsufficiency]

I assume this works also with algae from freshwater sources?

[@babu8848]

Red or brown algae

[@guslook3184]

I have only messed with seaweed twice. I dumped a tote of kelp blades in under an apple tree where I dig my trout fishin worms. It changed the soil composition in the immediate area. Digging for worms a couple times a years keeps the sod from covering it over an it's just worm castings a foot deep. I also chopped up some rockweed an spread it in the neglected driveway flower garden. Didn't really notice anything good the first year but the following season it had broken down an everything went crazy. I will have to make a second pass at the laws but last I knew, I could cut a bushel a day OR collect dead seaweed at highwater with no limits. This is would be for personal use only though. If I wanted to sell it I would need get a preapproved harvesting plan, then a license, an document every pound.

[@Sergejoncas]

i live in the baie des chaleur new brunswick canada lol lots of seaweed here but i never used it i should do it soon

[@Gantzz321]

serge j saint john here, and have never used it either. But I have been reading and seeing so much info saying how good it is for gardening I think I will start. I am one those people he talks about that eats it, love my dulse

[@tvpoonguzhali8403]

excellent. information

[@andrewyek]

hii, at least you made a clear sense .. because some ppl on youtube really spend so much money to buy edible seed weed just to make fertilizer.. for me that is really make no sense, because not sustainable.. i just wonder how those commercial kelp meal are made ? are they using such a big blender that able to copped to powder ? very curious.

[@saabbreeze55]

informative vedeo. thx. i live by the meditanean sea. do you think all kind of seaweed can be used to extract tea fertilizer? can it be useful for stawberies leafy vetables and citrus. id appreciate your answer.

[@Growyourheirlooms]

Works great for those

[@8francesco]

don't you need to rinse the saltwater off of it first?

[@Growyourheirlooms]

Nah, it does fine since I don't have tons of it.

[@programmingchicago]

If only I lived near the sea!

[@bingo45373]

I was wondering how you got all of that sea weed because its $$$$ I wont eat it ether

[@romanowskimodernart]

Cool, thx, ....

[@Growyourheirlooms]

YW

[@kutamatah]

looks like a grimy cam net,

[@reikoratcliffe2635]

Please stop saying it’s nasty. Lol We eat seaweed very often in Japan (and many Asian countries) you might offend someone. Also you can buy cheap(and bulk) at Asian market especially Chinese and Korean stores are cheap.

[@Growyourheirlooms]

I don't subscribe to people being easily offended. Saying it is nasty is my opinion and I'm entitled to it. If someone is offended because I say seaweed is nasty, they need to see a therapist.

[@KishaMiles1]

I PROMISE some of us actually like the taste as a chip replacement

[@alvegutt42]

you should try sushi