After my recent dissapointing beach foray in search of seaweed for the garden and compost heap I decided to take a trip over to Keiss beach and check out the so called 'abundance' of seaweed that I've been told about by the locals.
Here's what I found
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| Heaps of glorious seaweed. |
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| Seriously deep. |
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| Not sure what type of seaweed it is but it'll do me. |
I'd forgotten to check tide times before leaving and when I saw on the drive in that the tide was actually in I thought I'd have no chance of getting any but I have to say the stuff was everywhere along the entire stretch of beach.
I stood at the opening to the beach and looked at the heaps of Seaweed up and down the coastline and then looked down at my 2 recycled dog food bags I'd bought with me and felt totally unprepared. The bags may be 17.5kg bags but still, I could have collected so much more than I did if I'd taken the time to stock up the bags first, but I didn't (such was my doubt there was even going to be any seaweed).
Oh well, I have 2 bags of Seaweed to get me going and tomorrow I plan to get that Seaweed tea brewing and then any spare I have or get in the future I'm going to coat any new soil beds with it on my garden because I've heard it may put the dogs off getting onto the fresh soil and digging it all back out again.
That's a whole heap of seaweed!
ReplyDelete(I have since remembered where I last saw a whole bank of seaweed: on the sands at Thurso beach!!)
I've only ever been to Thurso beach once or twice in 10 years Mal. e have such lovely beaches up here don't we!
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That is a lot of seaweed! How wonderful to have so much available to compost. That looks like enough to make another trip - with lots of bags!
ReplyDeleteYes, I definitely think I'll be making another trip, or two or three lol.
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Just discovered your blog. This posting and some of the recent pst ones are great with the sea. It reminds me of the area here on the shores of Lake Michigan in USA. I often have the lake as a backdrop to my garden photos. Something about the sight, smell, and feel of water. Really love that. Will be seeing you soon. Jack
ReplyDeleteI love living near the sea Jack. The view from our back door is amazing and as we face due south we get amazing sunrises to the left and amazing sunsets to the right :)
DeleteThe sound and smell from the ocean is beautiful and well captured in the smell from seaweed.
Hope to see you back soon :)
Linda
There's a lot of seaweed there. How do you keep from getting salt from the seaweed into your soil?
ReplyDeleteThe first time I got seaweed I rinsed it off with the outside tap just to get off as much salt and sand as I could but I don't bother anymore. I don't think they contain enough salts to do any damage (least that's what I was told) and so far it's been fine.
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