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Hadley Ny

Seaweed? What's the difference between weeds taken from the lake and ocean? If there is none I threw a lot back from my anchor which I wish I kept. When the wind blew I could fill a five gallon bucket. Sorry all non-medicinal. Willing to bet the anchor caught more weeds than I caught fish..which was quite a few..but weight wise I had a lot..will start saving for next year along with fish carcasses.

6/24/2017 4:04:39 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Not the same...

6/26/2017 10:17:39 PM

Bethlehem CT

Ocean water contains all the micronutrients that plants require to live. Therefore so too do the plants and animals living in the ocean. The same is not true with pond water.

6/27/2017 7:18:29 AM

President - GPC

Trace elements in seaweed far superior to pond weed.

6/27/2017 9:44:54 AM

Hadley Ny

Thanks, I did a job years ago at a guys house who was a retired professor in the agriculture..horticulture?? and he had a beautiful small garden. Milfoil was removed from a nearby lake and he used it for fresh surface mulch and then tilled it in the following year. I believe he said it was loaded in nitrogen and critters attached were all beneficial for the soil. Just curious..much easier to buy kelp supplements if needed.

6/27/2017 10:28:20 AM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

Pond weeds are often full of snails, an alternate host to the black spot parasites that fish get. So that milfoil was probably supplying a lot of calcium in the snail shells.

6/27/2017 12:59:41 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

If you composted it would be fine. Although it is still not kelp. We add the stuff that washes up on the beach to the compost pile at the lake. The worms like it

6/27/2017 1:40:04 PM

Hadley Ny

Will probably save myself a few pails. I fish Lake George which is considered one of the Queens of Americas Lakes. (Worth while googling) 32 miles long. 3 miles wide and up to 200' deep right in the middle of the Adirondack Mts. Pristine water. All the flats in 20-40 feet of water are all loaded with weed beds. Not tall weeds but thick. Many small critters live in the weeds and the pan fish and bass are plentiful in these areas eating all the tiny critters hiding in the weeds. Fresh water shrimp, crabs, etc. Will probably make a great compost. I'll give it a shot..again because it's free and natural. I've got plenty of room to play in the garden.I'll be fishin in the mornin!!

6/27/2017 3:44:26 PM

Central Illinois

If its in a state park your not allowed to take it,A friend of ours got caught with a handful of water plants and had to return them.

6/28/2017 8:25:44 AM