I’m only hopeful throughout the rest of the month that this is just going to get better and better with time. One side effect to seaweed use was the presence of a very distinctive flavour in the potatoes, something quite noticeable when compared to normal potatoes. This is something that is no longer an issue, though, now that farmers have access to very easy-to-apply granular fertilisers. This variation of the seaweed fertiliser doesn’t have the same side effect, the strange taste disappearing during drying or granulation. Ever wondered what top sportsgrounds use on their grass? The chances are they’ve used a version of my Lawn Magic, the professional secret of green, healthy and great looking lawns.

This issue of fertiliser use, soil degradation and water pollution has certainly come to the fore in recent years. The intensification of land use on the commercial scale has led to more fertilisers being used. The main ingredients in fertilisers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These elements are essential to plants but in excess, they degrade the quality of soil and leach or run off into waterways and have dire effects there. The type of weedkiller in the mix (AfterCut contains three weedkillers; 2,4-D, Mecoprop-P and Dicamba, while many competing products only have two in their mixes).The plant hormones contained in the organic seaweed foliar feed I use, also make their way down through the plants into the roots. Here they stimulate root growth. The more roots a plant has, the better it can absorb water and nutrients from the soil.

How many marks out of 10 would you give your lawn? If it’s 9 or more, well done! If not, then your lawn would benefit from an extra burst of nutrition from our organic seaweed feed to give it the wow-factor. Here’s how it works. The granules were slow to dissolve, and as I wasn’t watering the lawn so much, they persisted on the surface for well over a month.Chemical fertilizers, by contrast, introduce unnatural elements into the soil. This risks further imbalance of the natural life cycle of beneficial microbes. Of course changing the soil doesn’t happen straight away, but when building a new lawn adding it in will help tremendously for the health of the lawn for the future. How is seaweed applied to lawns? I’m always on the search for creative pet and kid-friendly solutions to improving my lawn. Liquid solutions containing seaweed kept coming up as a beneficial ingredient for lawn care. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And so, I dove into study-mode and did a ton of research. What I found surprised me. The ratio of NPK (that’s Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium) is better than the organic seaweed extract, but it’s high in potassium and I’m trying to reduce the amount of this in my garden. Hi Duncan, Just reading your article. I live in Ireland and am very fortunate to have a beach right beside me. I have planted potatoes and onions. I planted seaweed ontop of my seed potatoes and they are coming up lovely, but I am concerned about blight. I read in your article about seaweed preventing blight. Do I just cover the leaves completley in seaweed? and also do I need any other blight prevention along with the seaweed?

It doesn’t come with a spreader, so I had to guess the dose by using my hands, which isn’t ideal or accurate. I also have many years of experience in gardening at both a personal and professional level and I hold a qualification in landscape gardening. And do you know what else I like about it? The seaweed that the product is made from is gathered in Ireland. I like that it’s local and that using it helps our country’s economy.While treatment may result in an initial increase in grass growth or improved color from the infusion of the chemical fertilizer, the impeding of microbial activity in the soil will take its toll, eventually resulting in poor quality soil.