The Shropshire Seaweed Company

The Shropshire Seaweed Company Organic seaweed fertiliser & soil improvers, made in Shropshire for healthier soil and plants. Helping UK gardeners grow the natural way since 2005.

Everything we make helps build healthy, living soil, because strong plants start from the ground up. Over 100 miles from the nearest coastline, Shropshire is the last place you'd expect to find a company that makes products from seaweed. When we tell local people what we do, they often look at us like we're completely mad! However, here in the heart of rural England, we do think we know a thing or

two about organic living and 'the good life' - which is what drove us to develop our seaweed product range.

08/09/2026

Have you ever thought about what it really means to ‘feed’ a plant? 🌱

07/09/2026

Organic isn’t just a badge, it’s a decision you make every time you tend your garden.

The badge isn’t it important bit, but it does help you know which products actually support nature’s way of doing things, ours included.

This Organic September, we’re celebrating the practice, not just the sticker. What does growing organic mean to you?

04/09/2026

This is the same lawn, one week. The difference? 5 minutes of work.

Grass goes dormant over summer to survive, but right now it's ready to bounce back: the soil is still warm, and the rain is returning, which makes early autumn the best window all year to green it up and get roots down before winter.

The biggest impact you can make now that the rain has hit is to feed it with a gentle seaweed. This helps it green up fast and root deep, without forcing soft growth.

Give it one week, and you'll be surprised by how quickly you see the results.

What state is your lawn in after the summer?

03/09/2026

Everyone's been asking us about frass this summer, and most of the questions revolve around one thing: slugs.

So here's our honest answer.

First, what frass actually is: what's left after black soldier fly larvae break down plant material. A nutrient-rich, living soil improver, not a quick-fix feed.

It doesn't force-feed your plants. It feeds the soil, the microbes and fungi that make nutrients available to your plants over time. The result is slow, steady growth, less waste, and roots that grow stronger, more branched and more drought-resilient season after season.

Now, the slugs. Frass is rich in chitin, the same material insect shells are made of, and plants seem to read it as a warning and raise their own defences.

In our ongoing garden trials, 9/10 people reported noticeably less slug damage when frass was applied around the base of a plant every 4-6 weeks. Our trials continue, but so far, it's safe to say we think it could be a powerful tool in the garden, beyond the soil improving qualities we already know and love it for.

Have slugs won the battle in your garden this year? Tell us your stories below.

🔗 Find out more about frass in the comments.

02/09/2026

If you do one thing for your soil this autumn, give it an immunity shot 🪱

01/09/2026

Three ways to water deep, no hose required:
1. Bottom-water your pots. Stand thirsty containers in a tray of water and let them drink from below. The roots pull moisture straight up, and none of it is lost off the baking surface.
2. Sink a pot by the root ball. Push an empty plant pot into the soil right beside the plant and water into that. It funnels the water straight down to the roots instead of running off dry, crusted ground.
3. Make a DIY olla. Bury an unglazed terracotta pot up to its rim, block the drainage hole, fill it with water and pop a lid on top. The water seeps slowly through the clay, underground, exactly where the roots are waiting.

Surface watering in a heatwave mostly evaporates before it does a thing. Get it down deep and direct and you grow roots that reach down and cope on their own.

Water, feed, mulch, and water deep. That’s a garden built to get through a drought.

👉 Save all three parts and come back to them when the rain doesn’t.

31/08/2026

If you do one thing for your soil this week, mulch it.

In a drought, bare soil is the enemy. The sun bakes the surface and your water evaporates before the roots ever see it. Mulch is the single biggest move you can make right now to keep moisture in the ground, especially now we’ve had a good rainfall for the first time this summer.

Here’s the sequence that makes the biggest impact. Water deeply first, then feed, (frass is ideal here as a top dressing), then mulch straight over the top. The frass feeds from below, the mulch locks it all in.

A good layer of mulch shades the soil, slows evaporation right down, and keeps the root zone cool and damp while everything above ground is gasping. Water, feed, mulch. That’s the order that carries a garden through a dry spell.

You’ve got the moisture locked in. Now the real trick is getting water down to the roots in the first place, and a hosepipe ban makes that the hard part.

Keep your eyes peeled for part 3, showing you three ways to water deep without a hosepipe. 👉 Save this and get your mulch down this week.

30/08/2026

If you’re reaching for the feed to rescue your plants in this drought, stop.

Fertiliser needs water to work. In bone-dry soil it can’t move to the roots, and feeding a thirsty, stressed plant means you’re likely wasting your money as it cannot be properly absorbed. And, whilst we’ve seen some rain in the past week, we’ll need a lot more for the soil to fully recover.

Get the order right. Water deeply first and let the soil properly rehydrate. Feed the next day, when the plant can actually take up what you’re giving it.

Stay tuned for part 2: the one thing that’ll make the biggest difference now, and why frass earns its place as a top dressing. 👉 Save this before your next watering.

29/08/2026

Two olive trees, planted a metre apart. One looks gorgeous. This one’s on the brink.

Same variety, same care. The only difference is that hers sits in a little more shade, and this one took the full force of the heatwave without enough water. Now it’s scorched and crisping while its sister a metre away hasn’t turned a leaf.

So can we bring it back? We’re certainly going to try.

Here’s the mistake most people would make now: reach straight for the feed. But the soil in this pot is bone dry, and once potting compost dries out completely it turns water-repellent. Pour water on and it runs straight down the sides and out the bottom, past roots that are still parched. Feeding into that does nothing.

So we’re taking it slow. Rehydrating the soil over several days, little and often, until it’s properly wet the whole way through. Only then will we feed. Water first, always.

👉 Follow along to find out if this olive tree can be saved.

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