Sunday 25 September 2016

Collecting Seaweed for the New Pumpkin Patch


So I,ll start again . Here we are down at Gunwalloe . There's rain coming in , but who cares ? !

The tide is going out and has washed up some lovely fresh clumps of seaweed .


I usually bring a black bin sack for us to sit on , but today it is coming in really useful ,  to gather some seaweed for the veg garden .


I filled it to about half way , since it is quite heavy and we had quite a walk uphill to the carpark . I can always come and  get some more another day .


Back home I empty it into my wheelbarrow and wheel it up to the veg garden .


              Seaweed is great in the veg garden , it really makes things grow !


I,m busy getting the new Pumpkin patch ready for next year , layering up newspaper , grass clippings , cardboard , horse manure ,  hoover bag contents , Autumn leaves , spent compost , shredded branches and seaweed  . The more effort that is put into the garden now during the Autumn , the bigger the pay off next year ....but this is no effort really , since it is our friends the worms that will do the work , chomping through it all .
 No hard , back breaking digging for me ..except just to gently turn it all over and rake it in the Spring .

                                                 Beautiful Cornish seaweed .


So the next  layer will be more cardboard ,then green stuff grass clippings, newspaper , I try to alternate it;  green stuff followed by brown stuff is how it really works and the air trapped within it keeps it all  beautifully light and smell free.....so no walking all over it !
     The worms love it !

It hard to see from my pics , but it is a fairly large circular bed ,but not so large that I cant reach easily into the middle of it without treading on the earth .
Not treading on the earth is very important , because in doing  so the earth  becomes compacted and the worms get squashed : (
   So there you are , my new Pumpkin Patch for next year . Hope I haven't put you off your tea ! : )

2 comments:

  1. Do you need a permit to gather seaweed now? My garden could certainly do with some nourishment.

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    1. I,ve never heard of needing a permit ? I never pick living seaweed growing attached to the rocks . I only take a small amount from the beach , when it is washed up in mountainous heaps from time to time .
      I also regularly do litter pick , I wish more folk would ....the sea is full of plastic rubbish , old torn fishing nets ,tangled fishing lines complete with sharp hooks .

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