I’m often down on my nearest beach, Black Steps: only accessible at low water, so one’s “visiting window” changes daily. Yesterday, alone but carefully Peregrine-observed, I filled a large bucket with stranded seaweed: a good load to haul back for the garden.
Some say seaweed is only a soil improver, has scant value as manure; they can never have tasted seaweed-fertilised tomatoes and potatoes! Furthermore research in which Dale Fort participated established that an active ingredient in some seaweeds improves the drought resistance of both annual crops and trees… How useful could that be, in future?
I must stress – I only collect stranded weed: I never pull living weed off the rocks.
