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Would Algae work as a good fertilizer? Beside my house every spring to fall the canal gets covered in a thick layer of it. I am not sure the nutritional facts about it. like what it contains and stuff. Thanks for the help.

1/16/2005 12:52:16 PM

Indiana

It couldnt hurt, seems as if it would be along the same lines as kelp.

1/17/2005 6:22:09 PM

Ottawa, Ohio

What about disease? The guys at OVGPG said that after watering from ponds/ect they ended up with high levels of pathogens...

1/18/2005 1:07:43 AM

Cologne / Germany

Don´t they say it should be the northern Atlantic Ocean stuff otherwise it´s crap?

1/18/2005 4:37:46 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Saltwater algae might help. The cold saltwater imparts the minerals, auxins, etc on the kelp that we like to use. These elements are absent from freshwater plants of all kinds.

The added organic matter won't hurt though as long as it has been composted first. As collected, freshwater pond-much is way too heavy to add to the patch raw.

1/18/2005 5:55:57 AM

It would be good stuff to use. The canal is full of this sludge like stuff every year. I took a rubber dingy out of the water and instead of floating on water it was just algae. You couldn't even paddle. This stuff would probably be high in nitrogen, and decomposes very fast.

1/18/2005 1:42:59 PM