It seems that every few weeks the small beaches that line the West Bay Walkway are covered with dense drifts of seaweed. Sometimes it is just spaghetti-like tangles of giant kelp but other times it is the bright green lettuce-like weed pictured here. It can lie on the beach for several days or a week before changing tides and currents wash it away and often it becomes quite smelly. I suspect it would make good fertilizer if applied to the garden.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Seaweed
It seems that every few weeks the small beaches that line the West Bay Walkway are covered with dense drifts of seaweed. Sometimes it is just spaghetti-like tangles of giant kelp but other times it is the bright green lettuce-like weed pictured here. It can lie on the beach for several days or a week before changing tides and currents wash it away and often it becomes quite smelly. I suspect it would make good fertilizer if applied to the garden.
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It sure does look like lettuce! That's a lot of seaweed! Wow. Lots of products use seaweed, actually, over and above sushi. It's good for you.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great image, i must admit i have a strange affinity for seaweed, i once brought some back in my pocket all the way from england, of course it was dry.
ReplyDeletei had been to amsterdam on the same trip can't imagine what they would have thought if i'd been stopped in customs ;)
I saw a guy once out at Weir's Beach scooping up big shovelful's of this seaweed, and we asked him why. He said it made great fertilizer for his garden!
ReplyDeleteI guess that confirms it!
I bet it does make good fertilizer..
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