Post by dewolfe on Feb 8, 2013 14:05:51 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone ever posted on this before but I thought it may be helpful to some people. We live by the shore so we are able to take back eel grass every year. We just pick a day and take back a few loads of the stuff and pile it by the garden. We have a root cellar and we use it for our potatoes, turnips, and cabbages but with our carrots, parsnips, and a few beets we leave them in the ground for the winter. We just pile the eel grass over top of them before the weather gets too cold and it keeps them from freezing so you can peel back the eel grass in the winter and take whatever you need out of the ground. If you are planning on adding to your garden next year or starting one you can throw the eel grass over a patch of grass and it will block out the sun so when you take it off its just ground. Also put it around your potatoes after they have been banked and you won't have to worry about weeds growing. You can plant potatoes in the eel grass and they'll have no mud on them, only thing is it will keep the cold in so they come up a little slower. To fix that just start the potato off on the ground with a little earth over it, you wont need to have the ground tilled very deep. Then when it comes up keep banking it with eel grass and you will have some clean potatoes. One more use for it is when it starts to break down you can till it into your ground. If you try to do this before it breaks down its too long and will wrap around the tines on your tiller but when it breaks down it becomes short pieces and it will keep your soil very loose when tilled in. Just thought of posting this today as I took some carrots out of the ground, may not be good to alot of you but to someone by the shore it may be helpful.
