Gardening and Writing with Seaweed

There are many blogs devoted to the use of seaweed in a garden.  I will be using this page to connect my gardening to my writing.

I collected three bags of seaweed-- mostly eel grass-- on the beach in Truro this morning. Kind of like this.

The local coffee roaster, the Beanstock, gives away these great burlap bags.   It's mid-October on Cape Cod.  We have not yet had our first frost.  I will be planting garlic in a new bed in a few days.

This is a pretty new garden, planted in an area that had been shaded by locust trees and overgrown with blackberry bushes.  There is a small amount of topsoil (from the locusts) but it is pure sand a few inches down.

So far, I have had luck with swiss chard, arugula and lettuce, all of which are happy with the dappled light.



I add a lot of compost and composted horse manure as well as seaweed to the soil.

   

October: Large garlic cloves from a few varieties-- some saved from the summer crop.

A layer of compost, organic fertilizer and seaweed.  Then the cloves go in, followed by more of the same.

Garlic bed ready for the winter!