seaweed ?

Hi everyone, I've just started my new compost in a bin I got from the council. Up to now I've put in food scraps, grass sods, brown cardboard, soft garden cuttings. I have just been down to the beach walking my dogs and wondered if seaweed could be used in my compost bin ? or can it just be spread on my veg patch I am preparing for next year ?

Gazania

 

Hi Gazania,

I put seaweed with my compost, but don't use huge amounts due to the heavy metals that they can contain.

I read somewhere about crofters being poisoned as they used seaweed as their main fertilizer.

Give it a wash with the hose first, otherwise you'll only being growing brassicas due to the salt.

 

Wouldn't the gribbles nibble the tubers ?s00k

 

Sorry, I was thinking of sea slaters, not gribbles.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://rxwildlife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sea-slater.JPG&imgrefurl=http://rxwildlife.org.uk/2008/05/15/sea-slater-woodlouse/&h=1669&w=1042&sz=298&tbnid=_mZi6F45x7wECM:&tbnh=284&tbnw=177&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsea%2Bslaters&zoom=1&q=sea+slaters&hl=en&usg=__-AerzT05eqO220XA767vMEjZ0RQ=&sa=X&ei=EPScTOubFpHa4Aad4p2CDQ&ved=0CBwQ9QEwAA

 

The buggers gang up & pinch your bait if you fish the piers at night, switch your light on & theres dozens of them shouldering a fillet of mackerell & taking it back home.