Collecting Free Seaweed Fertilizer With My Trusty Rucksack.

 

I went for a saunter the other day looking like I was going on a Irish hiking and camping trip in winter.  

I use to go camping in the Lake District at New Year when I was in my early twenties.  But I'm not doing it at my age in rainy Ireland.   

Everywhere is swimming especially the veg plot with the relentless wet winters we have had for  the last five years here.

My plot needs lots of tlc and weeding.  Unfortunately it will have to wait until we get a week or so of dry weather.

I don't think I will grow so much veg next year and I will use some of the raised beds for perennials and make it more French potager style.  Which should look attractive and hopefully attract benefical insects and bees and butterflies.

I picked up my trusty big rucksack from it's slumber on top of the wardrobe and placed it on my back and walked to our nearest beach

A bag full of seaweed and my hiking boots and big rucksack.

I emptied the seaweed out into my weeding bucket.

I'm going to fork in the annual weeds and use them for a natural green manure and spread the seaweed over the raised bed.  The potatoes next year should love it.  I will also spread some well rotted fym over the winter.

My late grandfather use to collect horse carts full of seaweed for his veg garden.  Organic gardening was carried out for thousand of years by our ancestors.

There's supposed to be 40 trace elements in seaweed and it's weed free.

So I  went for a walk and collected some seaweed for the veg plot.  Talk about killing two birds with one stone.  We both benefited  didn't we?

Have rucksack can carry things👍😃.

Do you collect seaweed for your veg plot?