In this video, we explore the benefits of why this old fashioned fertiliser is key to a healthy lawn and garden. To find out how the seaweed is harvested and processed, we travelled to the west coast of Ireland to Ocean Knowledge's seaweed factory to find out about the sustainable methods they use to harvest the seaweed and process it using a cold-pressed extraction process
On our next part of the journey we travelled to the world-famous Ballyliffin Golf club, home of the Irish opened in 2018 to interview Andy Robertson, the links superintendent to find out how he uses the seaweed and why it's an important part of how he maintains his golf greens
On this visit, we caught up with Declan Gallagher, managing director at Ocean Knowledge to find out What's the difference between seaweed, algae and kelp What nutrients are in the seaweed, how seaweed helps with soil health and why carbohydrates are important to plant health
Wanting to know more about seaweed and the science behind it, we travelled back to Belfast to meet up with Dr Deborah Cox, Managing Director of Lagan Valley Scientific at Belvoir Park Golf Club. Deborah talked us through the science behind seaweed, including how seaweed helps with root growth and how seaweed can help with plant stress and seed germination. The different methods used to apply seaweed to a lawn or plants and how seaweed can help with not only your lawn but the other plants and flowers in your garden.
00:00 Why this old fashioned fertiliser is key to a healthy lawn 01:00 How seaweed is harvested 02:02 How the seaweed is processed 05:05 How the seaweed is used 06:44 What's the difference between seaweed, algae and kelp? 07:35 What nutrients are in the seaweed 07:51 How seaweed helps with soil health 09:35 Why carbohydrates are important to plant health 11:08 Back in Belfast 11:50 How seaweed improves root growth 12:21 How does seaweed help with plant stress? 12:46 How seaweed helps with seed germination 13:22 What methods can be used to apply seaweed 14:31 How seaweed can help with the plants in your garden
A massive thank you to all the people and companies that took part in this. This video was three years in the making
On the channel, I get asked a lot of questions as to why seaweed is good for a lawn.
I reached out to Ocean Knowledge as I already use their products. They invited me to Donegal to see how the seaweed is made. We tried to make that video a few times but covid kept getting in the way. As time passed with each attempt, we started to have more ideas on how we could improve the video.
It's been a learning experience for me and my dad Chris, as we drove around Ireland on our quest to find out about seaweed. This video was a huge project to film and edit. We travelled hundreds of miles, with hours of footage and the editing time far exceeded what I have ever done before.
But it's now done and if you are reading this, thank you for watching. If you made it this far into the video description and have a question I will do my best to answer it. (Let me know if you read this far)
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