SEAWEED  

Seaweed has long been recognised for its nutritional benefits. However, it is not only humans who enjoy these benefits - plants do, too. Two products have been developed which produce healthier and stronger crops and other plant life. These are Hebridean Liquid Seaweed and Hebridean Seaweed Meal.

 

HEBRIDEAN LIQUID SEAWEED?

Liquid Seaweed comprises a water soluble concentrate of seaweed and Ascophyllum Nodosum.

How does it work?

This Seaweed is one of the richest available, containing a very wide range of elements concentrated from the sea. It contains more than sixty natural organic elements, amino acids, enzymes, trace elements and many other organic substances.

Collectively, these have had a catalytic effect on plant growth by supplementing the plants own biochemistry and ensuring greater efficiency in the growth mechanisms of crops to which it is applied.

As the roots develop and strengthen, nutrients previously locked up in the soil are released, thus negating deficiencies in trace elements and ensuring more effective use of fertilisers.

Applied photosynthesis and the build-up carbohydrate is encouraged, resulting in stronger cell structure and a plant better able to resist stress and disease.

Checks from natural means such as drought and adverse weather, as well as the induced checks of herbicides and chemical treatments, are more successfully resisted by plants treated with Hebridean Liquid Seaweed.

Analysis of Hebridean Liquid Seaweed

Elements	mg/kg	pH: 6-0
Boron	11.2	As you can see, Liquid Seaweed contains natural trace elements. Crops like Maize which need energy grow much stronger and healthier with the much cheaper trace elements such as Zinc and Iodine that are present in liquid seaweed, many farmers find that their crop analysis often gives ME:13.5.
Calcium	410
Copper	0.4
Iodine	250
Iron	63
Magnesium	98
Manganese	0.1
Phosphorus	38
Potassium	15,862
Sodium	2,689
Zinc	1.4
Liquid seaweed is your secret weapon in Maize growing.

 

The Liquid also contains all the essential amino acids, vitamins and growth-promoting substances such as Auxins, Betaines, Cytokinins and Gibberellins.

The other main constituent of Hebridean Liquid Seaweed is a high-level of Solubilised Alginates - a major source of nutrients for biological activity in the soil - which creates the ideal soil structure.

General Application Rates

One litre per acre at a cost of just

Grass	Application Time	Litres Per Hectare
Early Spring	Crops: Grazing 7/10 days before turnout.	5.0
After Cutting	Hay: Silage as soon as field cleared.	5.0
With Sprays		2.5

 

Potatoes	Application Time	Litres per Hectare
	At onset of tuber initiation	2.5
	10 days after tuber initiation	2.5
	3 weeks later	2.5
	A further 3 weeks later	2.5

 

Spring Cereals	Application Time	Litres per Hectare
ZGS 21/23	Tillering	2.5
ZGS 30/31	Leaf sheaf erect/1st node	2.5

 

Winter Cereals	Application Time	Litres per Hectare
ZGS 21	Early Tillering (autumn)	2.0
ZGS 31/32	1st/2nd node	2.5
(wheat) ZGS 49/59	Flag leaf ear emerged	2.5

 

Soft Fruit	Application Time	Litres per Hectare
Strawberries	Early Blossom	5.0
Raspberries, etc.	Fruit Set	5.0
	After Harvest	5.0

 

General	Application Time	Litres per Hectare
Any stressed or unhealthy crop		5.0

Compatibility

Hebridean Liquid Seaweed is compatible with most spray chemicals and, for convenience, can be applied together.

 

HEBRIDEAN SEAWEED MEAL?

Hebridean Seaweed Meal is Nature’s richest source of naturally chelated elements for livestock. 

In Seaweed Meal the elements are in the correct proportion to each other and being in an organic form are readily available to the animal.

The Average Analysis of Hebridean Seaweed Meal

Ingredient	Percentage (%)
Ash	20-25
Crude Fat	2.4
Crude Protein	6.9
Fibre - less than	8
Nitrogen-free Extract (carbohydrates)	55-60
Sand - less than	0.5

 

                            

  Seaweed encourages clover.                                                                                                                      Great coloured flowers using seaweed 

                          

These pictures were taken  2/7/2013 it shows a fair crop of  Triticale this crop was sown at the end of April, you don't need reminding that this was one of the coldest springs on record. Just 1 liter of Seaweed per acre has been given twice.

 

     

 We all know 2012 as been a wet year, this field of Maize has had 4 liter's of seaweed to the acre, this has then got the roots growing nicely and then 1 cwt per acre or Nitrogen. This picture was taken 15th September 2012, as you can see it's not as tall as it should be but it's not yellow and not too stunted, as some Maize has been this year.     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

CORN CROPS

Corn Crops develop good root growth which enables the plant's roots to forge deeper into the soil where the plant finds trace elements. This enables the plant to weather better and be much stronger. Given the right conditions, this results in more bigger crops.

                    

This photo was taken the 11th June 2012. It shows a crop of Organic Barley which was sprayed with liquid seaweed in late March, 1 litre per acre was used. Before then the farmer Mr. Woodgett said that " the crop was a pale yellow" and that after 4 days of spraying the seaweed on the crop it greened up nicely it should yield 2 tones per acre, the land is chalk.  

We were told in september that the above crop of barley yelded at a ton and a half per acre but it only cost £3.60 in seaweed.

Case Studies

Brian Hudson

Stoke on Trent

Uses liquid seaweed on his maize crop and finds he gets better roots, stronger plants and a good M.E of 12.5. This is because liquid seaweed is very high iodine which gives natural strong growth. Brian also finds then when used on grass it gives a sweeter tasting grass that is grazed well with no waste. Many people like Brian also find that there is a lot less waste from the animals when fed hay made with liquid seaweed.
Interestingly putting the seaweed straight into the lagoon saves time on spraying and gives his slurry natural trace elements and enzymes which helps breaks down solids which makes the slurry more available to the plant

With the recent wet weather of 2012 some farmers have told me that the growth is much stronger and keener when the weather turned warm in July/ August compared to fertilizer which gives a weaker growth and turns slushy when cut. More later.  

  

     Good healthy crop, growing well.   Sept 11

       

                                                                              Deep rooting system on maize.

            Gardener from Melksham gardener's club.

                                        Handy Garden size.

                                               Duke of Edinburgh an old variety of Dahlia from the 1950's.

             

                  Deeper colour and longer lasting flowers.

           

More good flowers grown with seaweed 10/6/12. We all know how wet it's been so these plants need all the help they can get.

           

                  Carrots and leeks grown with liquid seaweed good healthy crop great flavour, good keeping qualities

                        

  Thank you to Mrs. Anne Jones Of Melthem Holmfirth Huddersfield She was so impressed with the Liquid seaweed she kindly sent Us a show winning leek.

  

Ordinary flowers do really well with liquid seaweed.

           

Our Table at Melksham Gardeners Club Sept 9th 2012.                                 Judging time at Melksham Gardeners Club Sept 9th 2012.  

It was very good to meet old and new customers and get such a positive feedback about our Liquid seaweed. In a Year that has been a monsoon after monsoon which has made gardening very difficult.. Lets hope for a better year next year.

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                 

    An ordinary field of grass in the midlands has had seaweed mixed in the slurry lagoon at 2 litres per acre. Saves on time and money spraying and gives good  results.

    Please remember that when using seaweed on grass the results are on going year after year with a much stronger rooting system.

               3 grazing’s and 1 silage crop.

              Total fertiliser cost £11.50 per acre  

              Remember it’s the trace elements that give the green looking grass and sweeter taste. 

 

        

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