Truly organic fertiliser
Posted: Friday, 10 March 2006 |
No rumblings of tractors and attached trailers past my house for the last few days. Either seaweed acquisition has finished, or it is being obtained from the west or south beaches.
Seaweed is used as fertiliser on the machair, where various vegetables are planted and grown. The first thing that surprises people not familiar with this plant is how large it is, with thick strands and stalks up to several feet long. The second thing is how heavy a heaped fork of wet seaweed can be. And the third is how much wet sand you can get covered in after only a few minutes of forking seaweed.
Seaweed is used as fertiliser on the machair, where various vegetables are planted and grown. The first thing that surprises people not familiar with this plant is how large it is, with thick strands and stalks up to several feet long. The second thing is how heavy a heaped fork of wet seaweed can be. And the third is how much wet sand you can get covered in after only a few minutes of forking seaweed.
Comments
Seemingly hot seaweed wraps detoxify and remineralise the skin while regulating the body's water balance. Can't find a recipe for seaweed wraps but I suppose you just cook the seaweed and fill tortillas with it. You've already got the Berneray Balm so the 'Sound of Harris Spa' concept is quite a business opperchancity.
Annie B from Lone sheiling
Looks more appetising than mushroom quiche!
calumannabel from Daphne's Brue
I'm just wonderin if you would like to contract out to the local allotment co-op. The committee think it would be fair exchange for my hothouse. Oh, and glad to see you did actually survive the scallops, I was starting to get worried.
GrannyE. DBE.RM from Auchenshuggle
Have you no pictures of diggers? That gets them excited in Tobermory. PS I'm a bit worried about your tyre pressures?
calumannabel from Carageen Cottage Lewis
The stuff of dreams, nightmares, and inhaling too much smoke from a peat fire.
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