[daisy1990]

I live on the coast so have plenty of opportunity to pick up seaweed- how do you make feed (and does it smell vile??)

[binner]

binner, I see that live a long way from the coast but this year my toms, peppers, cukes have been fed entirely on home-made seaweed liquid feed and this is the first year they've shown not the slightest trace of Mg defficiency. Next time you have a day out in Bridlington fill the car up with seaweed 

i prefer scarbourgh to be honest 
is it legal to remove a couple of sacks of seaweed? i didnt think you were aloowed to, same with beach sand? il give it a go anyway

[Kristen]

I have used Epsom Salts (buy from chemist very cheaply)

Not much Epsom Salts is needed, so where you buy it probably makes little difference, but I would disagree with chemists being cheap - I've found garden centre Epsom Salts comes in much larger bags and works out cheaper. But I bough my bag years ago and only use a few teaspoon full's each year so I may be way out of date!

[SarahB]

is it legal to remove a couple of sacks of seaweed? i didnt think you were aloowed to, same with beach sand?

Sand is part of the beach.    Anything on the beach between the high and low tide marks is fair game, always assuming you're not in a nature reserve or something!  But you can just collected detached seaweed, dead stuff that's been left by the tide - that's not really any different from collecting driftwood.  We collected a big bucketful from Reculver the other day, and we didn't even get down to bare rock in a tiny patch; there'd been a big storm and all the rocks were covered in loose stuff.  The smell was pretty grim though!    

[binner]

  The smell was pretty grim though!    

huuuummmm 75 mile from coast to home, best go on a warm day so we can have the windows open

[SarahB]

Oh, the stuff in the car wasn't too bad, it was in a sealed bin (though you could still smell it) - but the beach itself, on a hot day, totally covered to a depth of some inches by dead and decaying seaweed, was something else!   :blink:

[mobilekat]

Seaweed sounds a good idea, reminds me of a clause in our Deeds- we have right of access over the neighbours garden for the delivery of seaweed.....

And that's the neighbour who is rather annoying (we keep finding cigarette ends in the garden as she had a pot for them on the wall and hadnt realised it was overflowing into our garden!!!)- also everytime their cat catches a rabbit the throw it (the rabbit) into our garden (we throw it back!)