HOW TO USE SEAWEED IN YOUR GARDEN
will look at how you can use fresh
seaweed as a great amendment and
fertilizer for your garden now seaweed
is a great amendment to your garden and
if you live in an area which is near the
beach you can just go and collect some
seaweed that you can use as a great
fertilizer and amendment in your garden
seaweed contains a lot of important
minerals as well as a lot of potassium
and nitrogen which is great for your
plants now collect some seaweed I've
just collected some in a ziplock bag
here just to show you how you can use it
in your garden now seaweed does contain
a lot of salts from the sea so you need
to make sure that you first clean your
seaweed very well and to clean our
seaweed we will just use a bucket of
water we're just going to rinse the
seaweed very well and salts that are
from the sea are not good for your
plants
unlike other beneficial salts like Epsom
salt the sea salt that's present is not
good for your plants
so you need to make sure you rinse it
several times before using and after
rinsing you can see that this looks
pretty clean and you are now ready to
use this in your garden so I'm gonna be
just spreading my seaweed on this raised
bed here now eventually what's going to
happen is the seaweed is gonna get mixed
into the soil and it will be broken down
into useful minerals and nutrients that
can be used by your plants and seaweed
is very high in potassium and nitrogen
and it has a lot of trace minerals so by
using seaweed you can improve the
nutrition that's present in your soil
and your plants will benefit immensely
from the added seaweed just make sure
that you're not taking a lot of seaweed
from you're beaches just read the
regulations and make sure that you're
complying to the regulations put up by
your local beaches but it's an easy way
to get a lot of nutrition in your garden
now if you remember our bed where we
were growing the pumpkins the
melons as well as the sweet potatoes the
bed has now grown very good plants and
the seaweed does help in improving the
overall efficiency of the way your
plants grow and this is the winter melon
that we harvested from this raised bed
and if possible if you can get enough
seaweed so that you can cover your
entire bed that will give you the best
results and there is one more way of
using seaweed which is to let it soak in
water and then use the water as a liquid
fertilizer will probably cover that in a
different episode so there we have it
folks that was our quick tip on using
seaweed which is easily available
locally as a great amendment to your
garden let me know if you have you
seaweed before or are you planning to
use them now that you know the benefits
I'll see you again soon happy gardening
