★ How to: Make Seaweed Fertiliser (A Complete Step by Step Guide)
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- ★ How to: Make Seaweed Fertiliser / Fertilizer (A Complete Step by Step Guide)
In Today's Project Diary Video I will show you a quick and easy way to make a homemade liquid fertiliser / Fertilizer from Seaweed.
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Hello, good video, I’ve been making seaweed feed for years, I like the bucket with holes in another bucket like a sieve, I’ll try that, i will say that seaweed doesn’t need to be rinsed of salt and the salt content isn’t huge and will plants no harm and is infact a very beneficial mineral in these quantities, I totally agree it stinks though!! I keep mine in the greenhouse to rot quicker and when I go in to water my tomatoes blimey does the smell hit me!!! Cheers for the video mate👍🏻
I LOVE when I find a fellow British on YT. I collect seaweed only in October and have never washed it 🧐🤔 oh oh I must start washing it. I normally just put it straight on the raised beds, add kitchen scraps that I have saved up for a month, some crushed eggshells and also stinging nettle. I then cover it all with horse manure and some compost. Cover it with a large, weed fabric and leave it until mid March when I uncover and leave it for 2-3 weeks before turning it, adding fresh compost, then I start planting. It has never affected my plants or soil thankfully.
@@woodforthetrees3496 not many flies around, cool enough so won’t smell as much
no do not wash it, you keep the microbiotic, the sea salt has diverse trace minerals, increases electric conductivity and combined with your kitchen scraps it will get the nitrogen to a fast composting. Do not wash it.
I live in 🇹🇹 . Right now the beach is covered with seaweed. I'm going to do this for my garden. Thanks for sharing.
Did you get a chance to make it? How did it turn out?
Which country is this?
@@jatinbharti69 Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies.
@@TriniMonstera I thank this country for my Moruga scorpion peppers! Top notch!😉
thank you so much, sri lanka is an island, nobody uses seaweed for anything, I will try this. Thank you so much
My Girlfriend is half Sri Lankan. I'm hoping to visit one day. Good luck with the seaweed :)
Coolll
@@ProjectDiaries you look like nick jonas
@@ProjectDiaries hi I was just wondering I have an avacado plant growing in a fairly large pot of around 75- 90 litre pot full of organic horse manure compost. I came account your CZcams channel about using seaweed liquid fertilisers. My avacado plant which is now approximately 1.8 metres tall has leaves turning brown at the tips. I do not want to use harsh chemical fertilizers is there by any chance that seaweed liquid fertilisers are any good for avacado plants? I do live over in the UK so very windy and very frequently raining, but having grown my avacado plant from seed now around 2-3 years I do think it requires some sort of fertilisation as just watering the plant isn't doing very much just more leaves turning brown and crumbling off. If you have any kind advice or tips on growing avocado plants it would be very helpful and great.
Thank you,
Kind regards,
Tom.
I pick up sea weed and mulch it like Rice, made a mulcher , with a blade, electric motor, direct drive, go good , put the stuff , on the Garden in Fall , seems to Be Working well , Did good with potatoes, this year, first year trying it , I enjoy your video , thanks,
Thank you so much we are from Guyana, nobody uses seaweed for anything, I will try this. Thank you so much
It's ok to use them with the salt. In my village they just bury it directly in the soil. It's amazing for the plants. The rain will wash the salt. But attention maybe it's because we plant in sand that it's very similar to the beach sand, which doesn't retain any water, it's a very oxiginazed soil.
I love seaweed, here on Grand Manan we got the good stuff. Dulse, alaria, sea lettuce, laminaria digitata, nori, kombu, kelp and all the rockweed you could ever want. Pick, rake, just depends on zones and laws :)
You've nailed it again, I'm going down to The West Pier now. I can't catch fish, and my new worm pump doesn't work, surely I can catch some seaweed. This is the video I wanted you to make, and I was just about to get some fertilizer from Poundland
I hope your next bite whilst fishing is either a 10lb Bass or 20lb cod
@@robbiebanks9182 we're gonna need a bigger boat
A great free fertiliser, have to say though I've never rinsed it off and never found a problem.
Good points about only using washed up weed that isn't living or providing a habitat.
Not sure if he’s right that plants don’t like sea salt as where I live there are fields along the coast with a good variety of wild flowers,trees,plants whereas more inland there is way less biodiversity
everyone should be ecologically minded like this good fella. cheers from Australia....
Indeed they should :)
I like how you make the seaweed solution and you talk on how to do everything clearly. I am going to try myself. Cheers thanks.
Excellent detail and information without useless padding!
You're an outstanding teacher, love your accent! Super information, well presented.
Thank you! :)
You'd be surprised how salt tolerant some plants can be. I live in an area of the U.S. often referred to as, "The Rust Belt". Our roads get salted frequently in winter to remove snow, and it doesn't seem to hurt grass at all. Drainage ditches also seem quite full of life. Still, using a net bag ( from onions or other veggies ) will help any salt laden moisture to drain off before you get the seaweed home.
I amend my soil with epson salt 🤷🏿♂️
@@beerye3750 that's much different than sodium chloride. Epsom"salt" is magnesium and something else
@@K-Zone Magnesium sulfate(sulfur)
5:28 ....that is what i wanted to put in coment ...u said it ....most important thing ....i'm not waiting 4weeks ever again ...i used to make it with urtica diodica and smell is just wonderfull ...birds used to drop from sky when i opened the lid to feed the plants
Good one, thanks from New Zealand.
I have learnt a lot from you today, I live bay beach in South Wales and will be making seaweed fertiliser, Thanks
another option would be letting it dry, processing it into a powder and adding it directly to your soil in autumn to let the microorganisms break it down for the following season. my seaweed powder supplier recommends 50g per square meter and applying it only every second year, completely eliminating the need of any fertilizer or other soil amendments.
are there any prooves it is relased slowly? cause there are mixtures of seaweed and somethng else to make it longtermrelased.. did your supplyer only use seaweed on its own?
Have a look at the potassium content on your dried seaweed product. If it's really high, much higher than on this video, it likely has been heated during the processing, which unfortunately destroys some of the benefits related to using seaweed- the cold resistance, for example. Cold processed is best as in this DIY.
We make fertilizer with seaweed here in St. Lucia.🇱🇨🇱🇨
I was at the seaside today so while there I grabbed a big bag full of seaweed and brought it home. I washed it all down and then blended a load into a pulp then spread that around the base of my plants and watered it down.
I'm going to try making a liquid fertiliser next with some and see how it goes.
How did you blend it?
Potato growers in Jersey (that's the island Jersey in UK for anyone in USA who doesn't know where Jersey is...) put seaweed onto their fields directly from the beaches in the spring. The salt does no harm at all.
wow thankyou. this was great information. I'm in perth Australian so I'm gonna check with our local Fisheries and coastal department about the laws. your channel is amazing. merry xmas mate
Great! Let me know how you get on. Merry Christmas to you too :)
I never thought that seaweeds has a lot of benefits to plant. Thanks for this useful info.
Another way to use seaweed is as a soil amendment in the fall. In October, we dig trenches in our gardens, lay the seaweed in and bury it. We add composted cow manure and Winter Rye seed on top. Come springtime the seaweed is all decomposed in the soil. This also eliminates smelly seaweed and bugs.
you can also sheet on it and make a nutes sndwich for plants
I gather seaweed where possible of concrete boat ramps because this stuff is as clean as from all things like sand and tide movements here in NZ.
Collect it when you least want it then it will be well brewed by the time you do use it say 6months to a year later or more depending on how much you use in one go.
I collect enough to fill no less than my 66gal drum.
My drum would be full of rainwater about halfway.
Works out that as long as there is enough water in the drum to submerge the weed the better, stirring from time-to-time helps make a stronger brew.
Add as much weed as possible every now and again keep adding more weed, place a lid overall.
Time means nothing when making seaweed duce I reckon the longer the better.
I'll rob my drum as I need it.
I take it out by the bucket fulls, pouring it on the ground between my cabbages and collies etc.
The only thing I noticed it burnt was silver beet leaves my advice is to render it down a bit here.
In the past my cabbages and collies grew to 18"s across the top, its base was as thick as a man's wrist, one could sit on a cabbage with ease it did does not break as one would expect.
Cheers 😁😁😁
You are right about the sea being sensitive. Picking to much washed up kelp will destroy the ocean.
not at all nature is abundant stop qorrying like a californian naive wokeling and experience mother nature
Great video. It’s important to mention that if you you smash up by pounding, chop up, or grind up the seaweed you’ll get a much speedier result. The seaweed will break down over the course of months and so has a long shelf life. I wouldn’t advise using this indoors as it will stick out your house apartment etc.
so , one could actually use this as advantage,, not chop anythng/get longtermfertilizer?
This video is awesome. I just noticed there is a huge resource of SeaWeed in a local sea I visited here in Nigeria a few days back which prompted me to come online and search for more info. Yours has been a nice one in making liquid fertilizer. I also would want to know how to apply the liquid on crops and the left overs, like you have on the bucket you kept for 4weeks. I need as much Info as I can before I go into harvesting it.
Applying fertilisers is really down to which crop you are growing, which part of the cycle that crop is in and how well your soil is. Over fertilising a plant can cause as many issues as not fertilising
Which sea do you found this in Nigeria. I base in Nigeria.
Here in my native ireland especially west coast seaweed has been used fertailiser .soil conditioner for donkeys years
Thank you for letting me know the NPK of seaweed. 👌literally been trying to find that out for ages
fantastic stuff - thanks so much
Thank you for another useful video. Your voice and manner are pleasing to listen to.
(It was sad to see same blue plastic bits in the seaweed you were picking up that we see in California. I guess we have to clean up the entire ocean before we can pick up seaweed without sifting for garbage.)
Thank you great information
Hi...Awesome.. If I make too much and only have indoor plants...Can I freeze the very diluted mixture I've made.?... And should I fertilize my indoor plant about once a month? Even during Jan-Feb? Thanks so much.
Very well done mate! Cheers from Canada.
Awesome. Gotta try this.
Excellent tutorial. Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to you and yours
Thank you. Blessings in return to you too
good idea, I'll stick with dandelion or nettle tea though just so i dont have to wash it and get the salt and sea gunk out.
Those will be my next fertiliser videos. Dandelions and Nettles aren't available all year round like Seaweed is
True. Too many dandelions in my.lawn right now though :) like your videos, keep 'em coming mate.
Great video! Really like your channel :)
Marco nutrients are npk micro nutrients are magnesium copper iron sulphur etc. Seaweed has growth hormones and helps simulate organisms in the soil release bound nutrients making seaweed a good partner for other fertilisers.
macro are also mag, sulphur, calcium, carbon micros are on the micro side, iron nickel silica mnganese, copper, boron, zinc, selenium
Thanks for sharing.
This bloke reminds me of the GEICO Gekko!
To much work and time to wait. Just gather seaweed all year. In summer toss into your compost. In fall and early winter shred it with the lawn mower and dig right into the garden. Now you get the benefit of the entire seaweed plant and not just parts of it. You can even side dress your plants with the shredded weed.
God Bless Joe
Is that okay if I chuck it on to garden? I have done 4 plastic bags of seaweed today around trees and I wonder if it is getting stink.
does it really relase nutrients longterm? i heard opposite.
I like the lawnmower idea!
nice information, I"LL to try asap
Thanks! :)
Too far from the coast to try this one and thankyou for sharing.
😆 Happy Gardening, Terry.
You can also use Sushi Seaweed sheets if you have a store that sells them and would like to make small batches?
Project Diaries can you make a video on how to do seaweed fertilizers using dried seaweeds and kelp from a store? thank you ☺
It's exactly the same process. The water just rehydrated the dried seaweed
Got some seaweed last week seem to works best on tomato plants .
Thanks a lot.
Lee, have you got your name down for an allotment yet or have the local council built all over them? I think an allotment would be just the thing for you. I collect seaweed, mainly for livestock but I take a rubbish bag with me and sort the rubbish as I collect. The really beneficial elements are iodine, selenium and cobalt amongst others. Really good for heathy animal and plant life.
I wish I had the time. I only do these projects in-between looking after my Grandad
I would suggest putting your name down anyway, it takes a long time to get to the top of the list.
Ps. Give your grandad my regards from West Wales, he is a lucky man for having such a caring grandson.
Will do. Thank you :)
I wonder how seaweed would be as an addition to worm composting.
It would be a complete nutrient
ThanQ...great info...
thank you for the video, as always very informative and great to watch your enthusiasm. I have a question re storage life of this fertiliser. i found a glass jar i had seaweed and water in, it's been in there for a year!! can i still use it? it doesn't smell any more different to the way it did a couple of weeks into it brewing. thank you
Thank lots brother...
another good video Lee - pity I moved from the seaside a few years ago.
Great info thanks
Good info
Great video! But why is the water brown before you put any seaweed into it? And if it's soaking in the water, won't it be soaking in salt water?
Thank you!!😉
It is liquid gold for your plants...I promise❤. You'll get tasty big plants.
Hi, I live in Brighton and watched every episode of your videos. Thank you so much. I tried to collect some dried seaweed near Worthing a few month ago and soaked in water as you instructed, but a few months passed and nothing has changed. The water is still quite clear and no smell. Is there any specific type of seaweed I should choose or avoid? Many thanks.
Hi, Im from Brighton, also! You Need to stir a little
I always her that we should be careful taking anything from the Pacific. This supposedly due to pollution. Our water is literally greens and the tide always leaves behind this brown foam (looks like the brown cushion in couch cushions).
Excellent brother wow!
Thanks You :)
Or you could just buy it from the shop saves all the messing about you can get a good one for like £8
Great!! Thanks..!!
Hi, I’m new to gardening so have been watching lots of videos. I saw one that said you can bury seaweed into the soil and then plant there, is this true? Or is it better to do this liquid? Thanks for the videos 😊
Plenty of seaweed down here in Newhaven, but not sure I can be bothered to wait 4 weeks for it to brew 🤣
Hi, this video has been really helpful, thank you! Im from Brighton, and love to use what nature has to offer, without causing harm! I have collected seaweed for a few years now, but only used it as a mulch. I never new the ratio of Sea weed extract to water. If it had sat around for a while, it stunk so bad & my neighbours wondered what the smell was! lol! My husband would have to safely dispose of it! Hahaha! I cant stop laughing when I think of it, the smell! Stunk is van out!! Anyhoo, thanks to this video, I now keep it in my greenhouse! Anyway this ratio, if I used 1 ltr of extract how many ltrs of water? please, wasn't sure if it was 10 or 20 ltrs Thanks again
I would think measuring the PPM/TDS would be the best way to go about it.
It's never the same strength or have the same number microbes.
I tend to overthink thinks tho lol
You can use the sting nettle in the same way.
It is even more potent than the seaweeds. Very rich in Potassium, beneficial for leaf growth and health.
And the smell is something you never experienced before, more like rotten fish.
Nevertheless in garden can make wonders! I use fermented sting nettle concentate on everything in garden.
My neighbors keeps asking me what the heck i do with my plants that they never got any diseases and get so nice harvest, especially tomatoes! The secret consists of only 3 things, chicken or pigeons manure, sting nettle and horsetail plants.
BTW keep your containers covered by a lose lead or plastic foil wrapped with a elastic cordon till the fermentation is done and your neighbors don't even know you have any fishy there. Once you mix the fermented liquid with water the smell won't be that stong at all.
Thanks Sir
Thank you for this amazing video is that Newhaven where you picking the seaweed?
Beautiful wish you could send me some to the U.S.
If anyone is interested .....I chuck seaweed into my worm "hotel" ....I read it was a worm aphrodisiac.
They seem to love the stuff.......smellier the better.
What a great idea - do you leave it to stew in water first or just wash it and chuck it straight in?
@@pkk639 I chuck it in a big bucket of water ...... leave it a week ...then just add some as a special treat ..if they've been good.
A bagful lasts about 3-4 months and what's left is liquid fertiliser for the garden.
It's win ..win.
@@philmcdonald4778 perfect!!! Thanks so much x
Interesting. Commercial Seaweed solution is so cheap though and consistent strength.
Possible but that would involve spending money and I'm showing people how to grow things for free :)
Plus the satisfaction of making it yourself.
Might as well just buy a bag of potatoes rather than grow them yourself, using that logic.
salt and minerals arent really bad for plants
many people add salt to their garden especially tomatos and peppers, great for photosynthesis
Even with sea salt the recommended dose is only 1 tea spoon per gallon of water.
I think you may be referring to epsom salt(magnesium sulfate), which is beneficial in the flower/fruiting stage. Sodium chloride(table salt) is no good for and causes toxicity issues and root death in most fruit/vegetable plants. Although... trace amounts can be handled by plants with no worry.
Can u use the spent material in the compost afterwards? I have the worlds biggest kelp on the washington coast. I can drive on the beach and get truckloads at a time. Want to make biochar and am looking for the ultimate seaweed biochar charger tea recipe.
Seaweed and fish fertilizer can be good IF one can get them free or at low cost for truckloads of seaweed or barrels of fish at almost zero cost. There is little fertilizer value in them and both are loaded with salt especially sodium so there is nothing special but can be ok if free.
Great movie. Greetz from Nederland.
GT video and info I will try this thanks 🐦🐞🐝😁🌷🌷
Good luck Graham
You are the best
Aw Thanks! :)
Hello. Thank you for sharing the information. I want to know if watering with seaweed solution when the plant is not in it's active growing season, harm the plant?
Hello,
Wonderful video, out here where I live we dont have any seaweeds, can I use fruit and vegie skins as an alternative?
Thanks
Love your content btw
Grass and straw works - warning the ammonia content can get really high - don't burn your plants.
5:26 first then double think
What dilution would we use with the first batch of seaweed juice ?
Not sure I understood you
1 part in 10 ?
Also , I ve had some brewing for weeks and there is a white layer on top
What is this ?( and it stinks )!!!
Thanks 🙏
5:53 ratio of diluting
Hi, I had a carrier bag of seaweed standing in a tray and the bag disintegrated . The rainwater diluted the seaweed so I thought I'd bottle it. However, I then saw some larvae floating in it. Should I strain it to remove them? Is it too late to do anything? I wanted to use the fertiliser for growing spuds in a bag. Look forward to your advice. Thanks ever so.
I didn't wash mine because I didn't want to wash off the micro-organisms. Don't the Koreans use seawater in their fertilizer teas? Help, I am about to innoculate some biochar with it. I chipped up bull kelp in the wood chipper and put some of the long fronds and bladder wrack in it too. I don't think it will be too much but what do you think? test it on something?
are you supposed to keep air circulation? I left the lid cracked and some sand fleas or something were feasting but seem to have gone away now. Mine doesn't smell too bad. Been in there a couple months but it is cool weather.
What do you mean store for 3 weeks? only 3 weeks? I don't have anything growing yet! Also, do you use seaweed in your compost? Can you do a video on all the uses of seaweed in the garden? I live on the Washington state coast of the Pacific Northwest. 5 min from the beach and I can drive on it to gather kelp. I did Hugelkulture with kelp logs and rotting red alder. gonna grow some mushrooms too. Been documenting my journey a bit. will post a video at some point. Built a beautiful garden. now to find out if the mushroom compost over a year ago is composted enough and I don't kill everything with salt.
Can you talk about salt air? My partner is worried salt air pruning will prevent me growing lettuces and things. Is that true? UK gardeners should know and I don't see you guys having any problems with salt air. Never even heard it mentioned. He thinks he knows everything but doesn't.
A video of gardening by the sea would be sooooo awesome. I don't know how far you are from the beach. You can see my beach and my dogs on my channel.
What are your thoughts on using chicken manure pellets or tomorite? My young tomatoes plants weren't doing that well in the pots so I fed them with some tomorite about a week ago and now they are going great guns!
You brewed them in a bucket like the video?
Another great video. I’ve used commercial seaweed based concoctions before and I’d always wondered if I could have made it myself. A question: What do you do with the used seaweed material? I would have thought you could use it as a mulch but the stench might have the wife and neighbours complaining. My only other thought is bury it? Ideas? Cheers.
I tend to add the used sea weed as a mulch or even chop it up mix it with compost for potted plants.
@@diondestelle3659 doese it relase over a whhole summer steady?
Compost it.
Would it be ok to let it compost somewhere in the garden....like use it as a mulch??
Thanks for information 👋ℹ️ please ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Do you know what thew pH is on this liquid ? Used seaweed for years, but just put it in compost bins straight from the beach. Saw potatoes farmers putting it straight on the potatoes growing in Jersey ... each farmer is allocated a portion on beach for seaweed collection.
I’ve had some in a bucket for about a year now, can I still use it?
Hi, could I do this same process fermentation with organic powdered kelp (type for human consumption) and dried seaweed that I buy from grocery store? Thank you
Can you use any old seaweed
The salt has not killed my plants yet my tomatoes thrive with seaweed mulch
Hello, liked this video and subbed. Good info.
Can the prepped seaweed for sushi be used? It would be easier to obtain for lots of folks.
As far as I know, sargassum contains cyanide. how to get rid of cyanide before further processing?
Plants are fine with the sea salt. Waist of time presoaking
Would you recommend adding leaf mold or another source of microbes to the mix while it's brewing away?
We learn by experimenting mate, try it if in dept chuck it out.
I have a question: What fruits and vegetables should you NOT use Seaweed fertilizer on? Or can you use it on them all?
he told you need to test them most veggies nd fruits will love them cause it enhances the flavor