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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 9, 2012 12:33:35 GMT -5
So Mr. Good Oat, Do tell, When and how much to apply in seaweed. I actually never thought to apply it to grain, but I do apply it to tomatoes and peppers a few weeks after transplant. See how anemic they looked at planting. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 9, 2012 12:35:58 GMT -5
Here they are a month later. Green and healthy looking. Seaweed helps. So let us know how you are applying it to grain! Attachments:
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Post by canadamike on Feb 9, 2012 23:08:24 GMT -5
In the garden, seaweed is applied every week . If I have time, twice a week for me. Especially for tomatoes, cukes and other fruit producing veggies.
In the field, we use 20-25 liters of pure seaweed per acre, if possible divided in 3 passes. 2 is OK, but 3 is better. Some farmers will make more passes than that. The more you fraction your fertilisation the better it is. It is the same with any type of fertilisation.
And fermented seaweed, or seaweed tea, is better than the extract that has been burned by potassium hydroxide. You have the benefit of all the amino acids and vitamins that have not been dissolved by the alcali and are ingested by the stomatas...
Buy a bag of dried seaweed and make your own...use good plant based compost as a bacterial inoculant, maybe a lil'molasses and....let's rock...
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Post by bunkie on Feb 10, 2012 14:56:49 GMT -5
We have aboutten tons of it. Here, oat straw is the favorite for farm animals, but many not in the need would normally turn it under ( the straw) to add carbon and potash to the soil. Except that these years, there is a huge shortage of straw on the market and it goes for record prices. There is actually more money to make out of the straw than the grain itself. An oat with such a giant straw is quite attractive wow michel, awesome looking oat strand there!!! can't wait to see how they do here. interesting abuot the height. same happens with the perennial rye Mountaineer, that we grow here from Tim...up to 12 feet tall! have been reading alot about seaweed lately. i so miss the ocean. anyone know of any good, inexpensive sources for dried seaweed?
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Post by DarJones on Feb 10, 2012 15:26:38 GMT -5
I can't make up my mind if that pic is of a very tall oat? or a very short Mike? At least we have a current pic of the Old Goat. DarJones
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Post by canadamike on Feb 10, 2012 19:54:49 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Feb 10, 2012 19:58:06 GMT -5
Bunkie, I would like to point out that seaweed is excedingly synergistic with both yucca extract and humic acids.
Like in ''the total is more than the sum of the two...or three''
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Post by turtleheart on Feb 11, 2012 6:58:56 GMT -5
do you guys avoid pacific products now?
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 11, 2012 13:53:46 GMT -5
Nah, I take a big garbage can to the beach on a stormy day and haul away what washes up. Of course they have rules against that sort of thing now, so I have to do it right about sundown.
There are rules, after all we can't have ordinary people collecting seaweed, because we have corpse corp to haul it off and make us pay for it twice.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Feb 11, 2012 19:16:43 GMT -5
Fukushima radioactive material shouldn't arrive at the US side of the Pacific for at least a year. One could argue about how much radioactive Cesium should be in your seaweed, but by the time it arrives it should be very diluted.
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Post by canadamike on Feb 11, 2012 20:24:50 GMT -5
I'd rather have us forget about that topic, but forgetting things does not make them disappear...I am a bit afraid of what we will have to write next year...
Especially in the light of the HUGE cover up of the leaks...many scientists say it is 40 times worse than Chernobil...Kokopelli is working on it right now, and the news aren't so good.
I was in Bretagne, the eastern part of France in 2009, right by the Atlantic sea with Tom ( the water was in front of us) , and we could not eat the wild berries that were all over the place because the cloud of Tchernobil had passed there many years ago...friggin' frightening...
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Post by turtleheart on Feb 12, 2012 0:35:43 GMT -5
evil rain....7 days after, it hit the pacific coast of cali and alaska. they found seals on the beaches dead of radiation, not cancers, but the radiation itself. it was 1200 rads by the time the air front hit the north american coast. im never eating from the pacific ever again, nor california.
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Post by johno on Feb 12, 2012 9:30:10 GMT -5
I talked to my friend near Anchorage, AK recently. She said things are starting to wash ashore from the tsunami. I told her not to eat the fish... she said she takes a Geiger counter with her and checks each one. So far, no clicks.
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Post by steev on Feb 13, 2012 0:02:45 GMT -5
C'mon, guys! I've eaten pretty exclusively from California since Fukushima, and all I've noticed is that I don't trip on my way to the bathroom in the dark anymore. I don't think my eyesight's improving, so I must be glowing.
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Post by steev on Feb 17, 2012 0:11:17 GMT -5
The good news in this is that since it's verboten to forage seaweed from the beach in the daytime, it's now easier to find in the dark, glowing as it does.
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