Tom, I'll have to wait to report on the seaweed has this is the first year I experiment with it.
What I did was layer it with mushroom compost, horse manure, rotten straw in the new beds we built back in march/april. I didn't rinse it because it was going to "hopefully" get the winter rains to wash it a little. I left the beds exposed for the first 6 weeks or so and then covered them with black plastic. Turned everything a couple of times and it looks beautiful!
Did a test in the beds with green manure in July to see how it would grow and it went crazy. So I think we're good!
I've also put some in the compost bins to get them going.
Now let's just hope mother nature is kind to us this year we are already having WAY above normal temps and fires have already started. I think we're in for another very hot and dry summer.
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