Seaweed fertiliser (or fertilizer) is organic fertilizer made from seaweed that is used in agriculture to increase soil fertility and plant growth. The...

apply desalinated seaweed fertiliser to improve the ground.[citation needed] In Newfoundland, lazy beds were augmented with seaweed, a process which continues...

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...

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...

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...

Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. In its simplest form farmers gather from natural beds, while at...

Jersey, and was also formerly noted for the production of vraic (seaweed fertiliser). The cottage industry formerly practised by Grouvillais of burning...

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...

Biosecurity Compost Controlled release fertiliser Cover crop Fertilizer Food additive Grasscycling Manure Vermicompost Seaweed fertilizer Biofertilizer Organic...

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...

use as a liquid fertiliser. Since the organism contains tricacylglycerols and fatty acids. Alan P. Major (1977). The Book of Seaweed. Gordon Cremonesi...

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...

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...

largest producer of seaweed in India, producing 22 thousand tonnes, followed by Gujarat, Maharashtra and Lakshadweep. The red seaweed is the most cultivated...

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...

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...

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...

needed] Alginates are refined from brown seaweeds. Throughout the world, many of the Phaeophyceae class brown seaweeds are harvested to be processed and converted...

frogfishes, the only species in the genus Histrio. It lives among Sargassum seaweed which floats in subtropical oceans. The scientific name comes from the...

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...

these definitions are edible fungi (such as edible mushrooms) and edible seaweed which, although not parts of plants, are often treated as vegetables. In...

Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae. Its common names include knotted wrack...

euphemistically as night soil, would either be incinerated or composted into fertiliser. Although the more advanced water closet (flush toilet) was popular in...

by two industries. The first was fishing and seaweed collecting; seaweed would be used as a fertiliser called "Goémon". The second was salt extraction...

component of agricultural fertiliser. Mining ended in the 1930s, because of the inadequate mineral content in the fertiliser. The remains of the buildings...

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...

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...

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...

harsh climate, feeding on Enderby's scrub vegetation, southern rata, and seaweed, evolving to cope with the environment. Cattle had been released earlier...

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....