How to make seaweed tea or fertiliser for the garden
Seaweed tea is an amazing fertiliser for your garden and has benefits also as a foliar spray, fertilising and protecting. The materials you need are readily available if you're near the ocean and it's quick to prepare.
If you'd like to research the benefits yourself, check some of the seaweed fertiliser products on amazon or jump on Google and search.
Gather your seaweed
Grab a bucket and hit the beach. The kelp type of seaweed works well but you can use anything. Throw it in the bucket after you've removed any sea creatures.
Rinse your seaweed
Rinse off the seaweed with fresh water. You don't have to, but the salt can be too much for some plants.
Leave it in the water
Put your washed seaweed back into the bucket and fill it with fresh water. Place the lid back on but leave a small gap. Aerobic steeping works faster. Adding an air pump also speeds it up, but that's not necessary.
Mix your seaweed tea fertiliser
Your water will start to discolour pretty much immediately, but after 24 hours it's steeped enough that you can extract some and use it on the garden.
Put a small amount into a watering can and mix it to a ratio of 1 part tea to 9 of water (yes, my diagram below is wrong!). Try watering around the plants just a little to begin with.
Repeat the process
You can keep the process going for ages. It will get stronger and stronger, so dilute it further as it ages. Test it out on your plants and see how they respond. I've found that berries love it!
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