Photo depicts a beach covered in seaweed in Thibauld recently
Photo by Clayton Florent
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get it in antigua every year around this time it has even closed hotels
I was in the village when the seaweed came to shore and it was cleaned up by the villagers the very same week!!!! Case closed
Yes! Seaweed has been covering Castle Bruce beach for weeks. We’ve collected 6 sacks so far to use as mulch and to throw in the hole before we plant our crops. The difference is amazing! You can also burn it and use the ashes as fertiliser. We didn’t even bother washing the salt out because we wanted it to deter slugs and other pests.
It’s true, seaweed can be used as an organic fertilizer. All one have to do is to wash out the salt…then either, mix it in with the soil, before planting the crops, use it as mulch, or make seaweed tea fertilizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CRhnKTQGcc&list=PLUgDhWAnHYDGYruJOLn1fciy6396mcmd_&index=6
Yes FATHER, how miraculous thee gifts… Farmers collect that stuff in used onion bags, put bags in river for up to 2 days, now you can either add it to your compost pile or apply to the soil directly. Good source of organic matter.
Put the seaweed around the coconut trees
We see it all the time here in Grenada also but this seems to be one of the worst I’ve seen.
This is a wonderful opportunity for the village to come together and make seamoss drinks or collect the seaweed and earn some revenue by selling it to the seamoss manufacturers. In other countries, seaweed is very much used on a daily basis because of its high nutritional value.
The Villagers should get moving everyone come out to clean up it doesn’t look good and remember it’s your community you don’t need others to tell you what to do
This also happened to some beaches in Barbados. There is a lot of cleaning up to do.Come on villagers show solidarity
I hope the villagers get together to clean it up and not subject themselves to the stench when it starts to rot.
For God’s sake, the village is Thibaud. Not Thibault. . If someone is posting something about a village do spell the name of the village right.
Wow, instead of appreciating the photo and what it depicts, someone getting a headache over a minor typo. Oh, these perfect Dominicans. SMH
If it was your village wouldn’t u want it to be spelled right?
Great pix. I like the colour that this Sargasso Seaweed has given to the beac – albeit telmporarily. But spelling the name of the village as Thibault is not a “typo”. That’s a terrible spelling error. DNO should graciously accept their mistake, correct the error and apologize.
Free fertiliser!
We need to find some use for this seaweed..heard it can be used as fertilizer after the level of salt has been reduced
@100%…….. You are right. it can also be used for animal food (pigs). It is very good organic fertilizer.
OMG . That`s a lot of clean up they have to do.
Global warming?
no it’s called shifting of the ocean currents….
Tor.
Hello and good afternoon my people. I gave you a Thumbs Up because it’s just shifting Ocean Currents as you said. I was in Puerto Rico two weeks ago and they are having similar problems on the Eastern Side of Puerto Rico.
…thought the place was called TEE-BOW