Vraicking in Jersey

Seaweed fertiliser (fertilizer in American English) is a valuable addition to the organic garden, and is abundantly available for free for those living near the coast. However, caution should be observed when collecting seaweed, particularly from areas that are liable to pollution, such as downriver (including estuaries) of industrial activities as seaweed is susceptible to contamination. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1098x1432, 1312 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Seaweed fertiliser Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1098x1432, 1312 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Seaweed fertiliser Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... English language spread in the United States. ... This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia that are related to Organic gardening and Organic farming. ... Seaweed-covered rocks in the UK Biologists, specifically marine biologists, consider seaweed to be any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic, and thus differentiated from most algae that tend to be microscopic in size [1]. Many phycologists prefer the term marine macroalgae over seaweeds... Water pollution Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits. ...

A perhaps less serious potential problem with seaweed is its salt content. While it is unlikely that you will add sufficient seaweed to seriously upset the balances of salt in your soil, it is not liked by worms, who will not live in it. It can be hosed down before adding to the soil to reduce the salt content, or left to be desalinated by rainwater. A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). ... SOiL is a five-piece hard rock/alternative metal music group from Chicago, Illinois. ... A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. ...

Seaweed, particularly bladderwrack, kelp or laminaria, can be either applied to the soil as a mulch (although it will tend to break down very quickly) or can be added to the compost heap, where it is an excellent activator. In terms of soil structure it does not add a great deal of bulk, but its jelly like alginate content helps to bind soil crumbs together, and it contains all soil nutrients (0.3% N, 0.1% P, 1.0% K, plus a full range of trace elements). For those who cannot gather fresh seaweed, it is available commercially in a dried 'meal' form, which can be applied at a rate of 60-100g per square metre, or as a concentrated liquid feed which should be diluted @ 1 part to 15 with water, and can be applied either as a foliar feed or to the root zone. Bladder wrack is a seaweed that was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1812, and was used extensively to treat goiter, a swelling of the thyroid gland related to insufficient iodine. ... Families Alariaceae Chordaceae Laminariaceae Lessoniaceae Phyllariaceae Pseudochordaceae Kelp are large seaweeds, belonging to the brown algae and classified in the order Laminariales. ... Species Laminaria japonica . ... In agriculture and gardening, mulch is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate. ... A handful of compost Compost is the aerobically decomposed remnants of organic materials (those with plant and animal origins). ... Soil structure is a sub-discipline of Soil Science concerned with the description of how particles in a given soil adhere - how they stick together. ... Alginate is a linear copolymer with homopolymeric blocks of (1-4)-linked ß-D-mannuronate (M) and its C-5 epimer α-L-guluronate (G) residues, respectively, covalently linked together in different sequences or blocks. ... General Name, Symbol, Number nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 2, p Appearance colorless Atomic mass 14. ... General Name, Symbol, Number phosphorus, P, 15 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 3, p Appearance waxy white/ red/ black/ colorless Atomic mass 30. ... General Name, Symbol, Number potassium, K, 19 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 4, s Appearance brownish white Atomic mass 39. ... Microminerals (also known as trace elements) are micronutrients that are chemical elements. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...

In the Channel Islands, such seaweed fertiliser is known as vraic in their dialects of Norman, a word that has also entered Channel Island English, the activity of collecting vraic being termed vraicking. In Scotland, it is used as fertiliser in lazybeds. The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... Norman is a Romance language and one of the Oïl languages. ... Motto: (Eng: No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen of the UK Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by... Lazy bed is a method of arable cultivation. ...