Seaweed as a Garden Fertilizer

Seaweed is one the easiest most inexpensive ways to feed your plants a balanced dose of minerals and enzymes. Seaweed preparations come in liquid and powder form. The powdered form is normally less costly than the liquid and is actually easier to store. Depending who you talk to about plant nutrition you may come up with different theories as to why your plants look, grow and taste better when you feed them seaweed. But it makes sense to me that if you feed your plants sea weed that the plants would absorb some of these much needed substances and when we ate the plant we would benefit from all the minerals that the plant took up.

Certainly we have seen cultures that eat food grown in soil that contains high amounts of readily available minerals. Seaweed as a plant food has probably been used for quite sometime. Seaweed has many uses, you can compost with it. If you have the powder form available just add it occasionally to your compost pile.

It can be used as a spray to feed your plants through the leaves. Plants respond very well to applications of sea weed and it really is hard you burn them with sea weed, even the small delicate plants. Read the instructions for applications on the label before attempting to use any product. In my 30 some years of experience using sea weed for feeding my plants I have always found it to enhance growth and production. The end result almost always tastes better. Maybe because the plants are getting more minerals, which seem to enhance their growth and over all health. Vegetables and fruits love seaweed. Regular seaweed applications of seaweed keep your plants happy and healthy. You may also help your seeds to sprout by soaking them in seaweed over night before planting. This helps to soften the outer shell of the seed so it will germinate faster. Water in your newly planted seeds with seaweed to insure they have a good start. When the seedlings first pop up mist the little plants with seaweed. All these little things will help your plants get off to a disease free healthy start for the growing season.