What and Why?- Liquid Kelp Fertilizer

Soil is vital for every life form. It is a vital part of ecosystem. Plants need soil to grow. All animals directly or indirectly eat plants or plant products to survive. When soil is so important, it needs to be carefully prepared before planting the seeds or saplings in order to enable them to grow...

NGA Articles: Seaweed for Plants Long ago, gardeners who lived near the ocean learned that seaweed was good for their plants. Exactly how it works is difficult to pin down, but scientists have found in seaweeds a veritable soup of plant-growth stimulants, vitamins, chelating agents, trace minerals, enzymes, and amino acids, all of which influence the growth of plants in different ways.

As relative newcomers to the garden party, we can be delinquent about (and yes, at times intimidated by) fertilizing. Maybe that's why we're so attached to our carnivores - because they self-fertilize, and in such a theatrical way? But slowly, we're coming around. We recently discovered our garden pond as a way to feed our...