advice please

Louis Theroux

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Jan 17, 2002, 4:20:30 PM1/17/02

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I'm trying to grow some seaweed down the garden, but i'm not having much
success, the bucket of water keeps going stagnent & the seaweed goes rotten.
I think i'm not putting enought salt in the water, i've been putting about a
table spoon/litre can anyone advise if that is enough?
any other advice on growing seaweed would be much appreciated.

Sue & Bob Hobden

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Jan 17, 2002, 5:36:58 PM1/17/02

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"Louis Theroux" wrote in message ...

Try posting you question on ...
rec.aquaria.marine.misc or a similar group

They should know about growing seaweed although their's would tend to be
from warm climates.

Suggest you get hold of some marine fishtank salts ( contains all sorts of
trace minerals too)and use that to make up the correct mixture strength as
stated on the packet, you will also need to provide movement in the water by
perhaps using an airpump and stone, possibly even a filter system. I do know
it's not an easy task at all to keep it growing.

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Marie O'Neill

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Jan 17, 2002, 8:20:37 PM1/17/02

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Louis Theroux <Lo...@thepotting.shed> wrote in message
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If you want to combine learning about it with a really good overseas trip,
try Zanzibar (east coast, I forget the name of the village) where the ladies
grow it attached to posts in the shallow sea water and harvest it as a crop
that is dried and sold (for a pittance) for cosmetics. You might need to
brush up on the old Swahili before you go.
M. O'Neill

Alan Gabriel

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Jan 17, 2002, 5:50:33 PM1/17/02

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"Louis Theroux" <Lo...@thepotting.shed> wrote in message
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Are you using ordinary table salt or sea salt?

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David Hill

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Jan 18, 2002, 2:48:08 PM1/18/02

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If you think about it, a bucket of water with any plant material is going to
go stagnant quickly. The sea water that you find sea weed in is a living
thing, has minerals, other organisms, and above all else it has Oxygen and
movement.
A large tank with marine salt in rainwater, adequate aquarium pump to supply
plenty of oxygen and a few nice marine creatures and you should have a
chance, but a marine aquarium is not cheep to run.
You don't say Why you would want to grow sea weed.

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www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Mike

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Jan 18, 2002, 3:04:16 PM1/18/02

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In article <3c47...@peer1.news.newnet.co.uk>, Louis Theroux
<Lo...@thepotting.shed> writes

Move to the seaside where the 'bottom of the garden' is the sea.

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