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nutrients from the ocean
NUTRIENTS FROM THE
OCEAN
by Barbara H. Shaw
with Ann Molloy
Many believe that all life began in the sea, so it makes sense that minerals
and nutrients from the sea are beneficial to land-based organisms today,
including your plants. Barb Shaw goes deep to extract information
on how ocean-based nutrients will help your garden grow.
T
he oceans are exceedingly rich in minerals and organic nutrients.
Over the past few billion years, zillions of cubic kilometers of miner-
als weathered from rocks and megatons of organic residues washed
down rivers and into the planet’s seas. Want rare earths and trace
minerals? Aluminum and boron to yttrium and zinc—every one of the
elements on the periodic table is found in any sample of ocean water.
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