Seaweed as Fertilizer (Best Kind?)

Hey, I've been hearing a lot in this forum about using seaweed in various ways as an organic fertilizer. I was just wondering what kind of seaweed is optimal, or if it doesn't matter at all. I live very close to the ocean so I can find whatever works best.

Thanks

I guess your ? like the ones I ask don't deserve an answer. There are 200+ replies to using piss as a nutrient, but no one can take two minutes to answer a legitimate ?

I use a Kelp extract from Age Old organics. It is good stuff, and cheap.

they say whatever you do don't use anything that is washed up on the beach, it has to be collected from the ocean. I'd say the best thing to do is put it in your compost or make/buy some sort of liquid sea fert.

I use kelp meal from a local company.

I've also gone to the beach and grabbed out some kelp tuber thangs, brought them home rinsed the hell out of them, chopped them up finely with a machete, rinsed them a bunch again and mixed with some dirt for two months.

I layed the mix down and planted new lawn seed over it. Grass grew like weeds. Way better than the area without the kelp mix.

I think i'll try it on mary next year.

use some kelp extract

purpz said:

they say whatever you do don't use anything that is washed up on the beach, it has to be collected from the ocean. I'd say the best thing to do is put it in your compost or make/buy some sort of liquid sea fert.

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nice avatar...see you saturday nite?!....actually, I went up to the college, and saw the pathetic excuse for their soil...I'm thinkin' of talking to someone in charge there about forming kelp crews to collect and wash kelp so they can compost it on a massive scale(good luck gettin' 'em goin'-huh?). I'm definitely gonna' be doing just that(the kelp thing). I'll try it as an aside, cause i'm not 100% on the salts.

I'm thinkin'- collect the kelp, wash thoroughly, sun dry, crumble, compost....what UCSC really needs is to build terra preta...that requires massive tonnage of: charcoal, manure, seaweed, all cafeteria scraps, and all that seabird guano I can't get to without a boat! the stuff's all right here...we'll see how receptive they are to subtle suggestions...in my experience however, if the leadership is not fully motivated(and motivating), things have a bad habit of not getting done!

s.c.mtn.hillbilly said:

nice avatar...see you saturday nite?!....actually, I went up to the college, and saw the pathetic excuse for their soil...I'm thinkin' of talking to someone in charge there about forming kelp crews to collect and wash kelp so they can compost it on a massive scale(good luck gettin' 'em goin'-huh?). I'm definitely gonna' be doing just that(the kelp thing). I'll try it as an aside, cause i'm not 100% on the salts.

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W00t S.C. best spot in the bay to grow.
M.j. capitol.
Yea man i want to take some Horticulture classes up there at the college soon, heard it was a really nice place.

their garden (u.c.s.c) is awesome! they've really got it goin' on; but I can take them higher! it's really a matter of organizing enough volunteers to collect and clean the kelp, and acqiure the other materials...tera preta shouldn't be too hard to make, and it'd beat the hell outta' what they're working with now... the garden is a way-cool place though. definitely a secret wonder to be seen by the few who know.

My Favorite is Maxicrop.

Thanks for the help everyone