Seaweed

Hi All,

I applied some maxicrop seaweed extract a few days ago, and the grass is already a noticeable darker green.

The label says use every month during growing season, doesn't grass grow every month of the year except in cold dark winter?

I'm not sure if it contains nitrogen as it doesn't say on the label, would I need any other feeds to go with it? Last year I used the miracle-gro general purpose stuff that goes on the hose, should I continue to use this in addition to the seaweed or is the seaweed extract enough?

Thanks in advance

 

Pretty much, yes.

I don't know the details of the specific product, but seaweed does indeed contain nitrogen. All plants do. I wouldn't be too worried about the nitrogen content for lawns though. Nitrogen is the most abundant part of air, and as long as the soil is healthy and full of all the right microbes, they will sort out the conversion from nitrogen gas to nitrogen in mineral form. I suspect it is the abundance of trace elements and iron in seaweed that helps the grass green up.

If the soil is already good, I personally think your seaweed feed will be enough.

 

Great, thanks for that, I'll stick with just the seaweed then

 

If you have any moss then you can put Iron Sulphate on the lawn to kill the moss - that will DEFINITELY green up your lawn too, if you need a quick-fix in that regard

 

Not sure of the particular seaweed product you used but in general seaweed is a soil conditioner. It will help with correcting the soil pH and at the same time will provide trace elements as Clueless1 rightly says. Once the seaweed starts to work, which is generally pretty quickly, the microbes in the soil will work more vigorously on the nutrients which are already present and thereby improve the condition of your grass. The key here is the correction of soil pH which seaweed does very well.