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Seaweed fertiliser

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Seaweed fertiliser, also spelt

American and British English spelling differences

American and British English spelling differences are one aspect of American and British English differences.The spelling systems of Commonwealth of Nations countries, for the most part, closely resemble the British system....
seaweed fertilizer, is a valuable addition to the organic garden, and is abundantly available free for those living near the coast. However, caution should be observed when collecting seaweed

Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
, particularly from areas that are liable to pollution

Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms ....
, such as downriver (including estuaries

Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
) of industrial activities as seaweed is susceptible to contamination.

A perhaps less serious potential problem with seaweed is its salt

Salt

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Seaweed fertiliser, also spelt

American and British English spelling differences

Seaweed

Pollution

Estuary

Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
content. While it is unlikely that you will add sufficient seaweed to seriously upset the balances of salt in your soil

Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
, it is not liked by worm

Worm

A worm is a common name given to a diverse group of invertebrate animals that have a long, soft body and no legs. There are hundreds of thousands of species of worms, 2,700 of these are earthworms....
s, who will not live in it. It can be hosed down before adding to the soil to reduce the salt content, or left to be desalinated by rainwater.

Seaweed, particularly bladderwrack, kelp

Kelp

Kelp are large seaweed plants , belonging to the brown algae and classified in the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genus. Some species can be very long and form kelp forests....
or laminaria

Laminaria

Laminaria is a genus of 31 species of brown algae , all sharing the common name "kelp". This economically important genus is characterized by long, leathery laminae and relatively large size....
, can be either applied to the soil as a mulch

Mulch

In agriculture and gardening, is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate. A wide variety of nature and Synthetic fiber materials are used....
(although it will tend to break down very quickly) or can be added to the compost

Compost

Compost , sometimes known as brown manure, is the end result of controlled aerobic decomposition of organic matter known as composting. It is used in landscaping, horticulture and agriculture as a soil conditioner and fertilizer to add vital humus or humic acids....
heap, where it is an excellent activator. In terms of soil structure

Soil structure

Soil structure is determined by how individual soil granules clump or bind together and aggregate, and therefore, the arrangement of soil pores between them....
it does not add a great deal of bulk, but its jelly like alginate content helps to bind soil crumbs together, and it contains all soil nutrients (0.3% N

Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element that has the symbol N and atomic number 7 and atomic mass 14.00674?. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78% by volume of Earth's atmosphere....
, 0.1% P

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is the chemical element that has the symbol P and atomic number 15. The name comes from the and . A Valency nonmetal of the nitrogen group, phosphorus is commonly found in inorganic phosphate minerals....
, 1.0% K

Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element. It has the symbol K , atomic number 19, and atomic mass 39.0983. Potassium was first isolated from potash, hence the name....
, plus a full range of trace element

Trace element

In analytical chemistry, a trace element is an Chemical element in a sample that has an average concentration of less than 100 parts per million atoms, or less than 100 micrograms per gram....
s). For those who cannot gather fresh seaweed, it is available commercially in a dried 'meal' form, which can be applied at a rate of 60-100g per square metre

Square metre

The square metre is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m?. It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre....
, or as a concentrated liquid feed which should be diluted @ 1 part to 15 with water, and can be applied either as a foliar feed or to the root zone.

In the Channel Islands

Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, off the France coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey....
, such seaweed fertiliser is known as vraic in their dialects of Norman

Norman language

Norman is a Romance languages and one of the Langues d'o?l. The northern Norman can be classified in the septentrional O?l languages with Picard language and Walloon language....
, a word that has also entered Channel Island English, the activity of collecting vraic being termed vraicking. In Scotland

Scotland

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, it is used as fertiliser in lazybeds

Lazy bed

Lazy bed is a method of arable cultivation. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5m in width, with narrow drainage channels between them....
or feannagan.

Falkland Islanders

Falkland Islanders

Falkland Islanders are the people of the British overseas territories of Falkland Islands....
have also been nicknamed "Kelpers

Kelpers

The Falkland Islanders, most of whom are of Wales or Scotland descent, are nicknamed kelpers because the islands are surrounded by large seaweeds called kelp....
" from time to time, from collecting seaweed partly for this purpose.