Ed Waters

Thanks for the video.  

We started using the seaweed to make compost in 2025.  We mixed it with the "chips" from a man who cuts firewood.  Regular wood chips seem to be hard to come by, and whomever has them wants to charge a lot of money for them.  The firewood chips are much finer and break down a whole lot better.  We are paying $10/yard delivered.  Using a mix of seaweed, grass clipping and urine along with the chips the pile went almost to 130 degrees and stayed there a while.

I read that in Ireland they dug a trench dropped in the potato seed and covered it with seaweed only.  We tried that last year with a 50/50 mix of soil and seaweed with good results.  

If I can believe it there is a quote from the movie:  "God made the world, but seaweed made this field"

Friday night is movie night.  We will watch the movie.

Thanks very much

If it helps I found this article after a lot of searching.

https://seaveg.com/blogs/mcsv-blog/seaweed-in-the-garden?srsltid=AfmBOorMKbySTVUPfvfk6RGURZ00MQWog_qS9Gk5VyCwc1P1O7KpfrH9

I have also found pictures from Ireland years ago of farmers harvesting huge quantities of seaweed, but almost no information beyond the picture

Thank you very much.  We are the coast of Maine up by the Canadian border and on the right tide the rockweed can be a foot thick.  We try to use it as much as possible already.  

Following is why I thought Dr. Redhawk had written about it already.  This was from 6 years ago.

Dr Bryant Redhawk has some excellent info in the soil forum regarding seaweed and seawater.  Quote from Huck Johnson.

Thanks

I found my way here looking for information on using seaweed.  Does anyone know which of these threads deals with seaweed??

Thanks

I just watched a video on NHK where they were making candles out of Sumac.

We already make zatar from our sumac trees but this may be a whole other use.

Anyone have any experience with this?

I have just begun with alders and willows.  I was going to put something about it in the aging homesteader section.  70 years old and worried about our energy resource future.  Felling and working with larger trees becomes difficult at this age.  We have been letting both the alders and willows grow for the last 5 years and they are getting to the point where some are large enough to use for firewood.  There is a story in the town where I live (Washington county, Maine) of a family that harvested these two types of wood as their only source of firewood.  They had a little over 5 acres.  We currently burn around 2-3 full cords of hardwood, and around 1/2 cord of soft slab wood.  We have 3 gas stihl chainsaws of different sizes, but we are going to switch over to a battery operated chainsaw and a Bahco bow saw.

We buy leg quarters from Walmart at 80 cents a pounds and they come in a 10 pound bag.  When I seperate the drum sticks from the thighs and weigh them it comes out to around a dollar a pound which is around 50% less than thighs or drumsticks cost by themselves.  Just thighs in Walmart are around $1.55 a pound and moving up.  There is what looks like a part of the spine on the leg quarter which we remove, and use those pieces for crab bait.  Living on the coast of Maine its pretty easy to catch a bucket of green crabs which are a lot of work to pick but delicious.  

Ulla would you mind sharing the type of nursery bags you have been using?  In a previous life I was in the hotel supply business in the Caribbean and we were trying to sell
degradable, biodegradable etc type products.   It can get very confusing.  Some of the products are not really good for the soil why others are pretty good.

Thanks

You might also try Smithereen Farm up Washington County.  If they cannot help out then they may know someone that can.