[tflabo]

Just returned from a business trip in Florida. I brought home some seaweeds from Dania beach—packed in plastic inside my luggage. What a stink-—right now its out back in a bucket of water in the sun brewing seaweed tea—for the plants of course. Anyone have experience using seaweed tea or just for mulch/compost?

[JRandomFreeper]

I have used the liquid seaweed and it works great. I use it and molassas mixed about 1.5 oz each to a gallon of water as starter soak for seeds, water for seedlings, and foliar spray, especially on the tomatoes. It stops spider mites on tomatoes from every showing up.

I also use it to feed my compost pile and it makes my compost work about 6 times faster than normal. So what would normally take a year to compost, breaks down in a couple of months.

My understanding is that it is actually food for beneficial bacteria and other little squigly wigglies that makes plants happy and makes compost break down faster.

/johnny