• Seaweed fertiliser (or fertilizer) is organic fertilizer made from seaweed that is used in agriculture to increase soil fertility and plant growth. The...
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    apply desalinated seaweed fertiliser to improve the ground.[citation needed] In Newfoundland, lazy beds were augmented with seaweed, a process which continues...
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    Fertilizer (redirect from Fertiliser)
    A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues...
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  • Harbour". One or two words linger on in the local English, e.g. vraic (seaweed fertiliser – a word common throughout the Channel Islands), and the pronunciation...
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    Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. In its simplest form farmers gather from natural beds, while at...
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    or two French/Auregnais words are still in common use, e.g. vraic (seaweed fertiliser), as well as impôt, which is the word used for the island's landfill...
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    Jersey, and was also formerly noted for the production of vraic (seaweed fertiliser). The cottage industry formerly practised by Grouvillais of burning...
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    Biosecurity Compost Controlled release fertiliser Cover crop Fertilizer Food additive Grasscycling Manure Vermicompost Seaweed fertilizer Biofertilizer Organic...
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  • is a corkscrew-like tool that is used for the commercial harvesting of seaweed, whose invention is credited to Yves Colin in 1961. The device consists...
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    use as a liquid fertiliser. Since the organism contains triacylglycerols and fatty acids. Alan P. Major (1977). The Book of Seaweed. Gordon Cremonesi...
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    the past the island was used by locals for the collection of seaweed for use as a fertiliser, but today Lihou is mainly used for tourism, including school...
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    algae. In Scotland and Norway, up until the mid-19th century, several seaweed species from Fucus and other genera were harvested, dried, burned to ash...
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    markings; they have small, leaf-like appendages that resemble kelp or seaweed fronds, providing camouflage, as well as a number of short spines for protection...
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    Laminaria digitata (category Edible seaweeds)
    northern Atlantic Ocean. Laminaria digitata is a tough, leathery, dark brown seaweed that grows to two or three metres. The holdfast which anchors it to the...
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    give farmers horse-and-cart access to the beach to collect seaweed to use as a fertiliser. A second tunnel, leading seawards, is the fishermen's access...
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    largest producer of seaweed in India, producing 22 thousand tonnes, followed by Gujarat, Maharashtra and Lakshadweep. The red seaweed is the most cultivated...
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    needed] Alginates are refined from brown seaweeds. Throughout the world, many of the Phaeophyceae class brown seaweeds are harvested to be processed and converted...
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    2017. Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. Second Edition. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, UK ISBN 978-0-9955673-3-7 Nicola White (2007). "A brown seaweed - Fucus...
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    litigation in relation to the effectiveness of the Maxicrop brand of fertiliser. Edmeades was born in 1949. Robert Harvey (1914–1985) and Ina (née Fitness...
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    Hormosira is a genus of seaweed in the family Hormosiraceae. It is monotypic, with a single species, Hormosira banksii, also known as Neptune's necklace...
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    Ascophyllum (category Edible seaweeds)
    Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae. Its common names include knotted wrack...
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    Fucus spiralis is a species of seaweed, a brown alga (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae), living on the littoral shore of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and...
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    fertiliser. Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland has a distinct history of this and still has several kelp-ovens that were used to cook the seaweed....
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  • there is a sheep dip. Angus Munro is seen in winter, gathering seaweed for fertiliser. He describes how he passed on his boat to his son, retired from...
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    bear crozier-shaped hooks which cling on to and get tangled with the host seaweed. The tetrasporangial phase forms much-branched, brownish-red tufts of fine...
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    frogfishes, the only species in the genus Histrio. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in subtropical oceans. The scientific name comes from the...
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    spirorbis is a small (3–4 mm) coiled polychaete that lives attached to seaweeds and eel grass in shallow saltwater. They have a smooth, white, sinistral...
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    This demersal fish is normally sedentary, hiding under rocks or among seaweed. Its can be found at depsth between 0 and 40 m (0 and 131 ft), although...
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    Caulerpa racemosa is a species of edible green alga, a seaweed in the family Caulerpaceae. It is commonly known as sea grapes (along with the related...
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  • harsh climate, feeding on Enderby's scrub vegetation, southern rata, and seaweed, evolving to cope with the environment. Cattle had been released earlier...
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