Green Algae Strategy Products - Fertilizers

Fertilizers Seaweed has been used as a fertilizer and soil conditioners for centuries. Many common fertilizers include several varieties of algae because algae provide usable nitrogen. Consumers like algae fertilizers because they are all natural.

Maerl is commonly used as a soil conditioner throughout Britain, Ireland and France. It is dredged from the sea floor and crushed to form a powder. The product carries considerable calcium and magnesium carbonate and works well as an organic fertilizer.

Agroplasma is the distributor of one of Europe's leading algae-based liquid plant nutrition supplements. The company claims Ferticell is a unique product made of 16 unicellular bacteria types that penetrate into the leaf instantaneously. Additionally, it stabilizes the auxins and cytokinins in the plant which is important for plant growth and for homogeneous crop production.

Maerl, Fertilizer Distribution and Lawn Fertilizer



Diatomaceous earth. This product comes from large fossil deposits of planktonic algae called diatoms. One of the largest sites of diatomaceous earth is in Lompoc, California. This material is actually the silica cell walls of these protists. The cell walls have minute pores and are used as an abrasive or filtering agent. Products containing diatomaceous earth are:

•	Hygroscopic (water absorbing) packaging that comes with camera lenses and other products to moderate the effects of humidity

•	Silver polish, rubbing compounds and shoe polish

•	Filters – swimming pools and industrial filters using diatomaceous earth, diatomite