I forgot to add a few points:

FYI, Nori is dried kelp. It's sold at some grocery stores and is used to make sushi.

Is composting this stuff really necessary? It dissolves in water overnight, and I'm only interested in trace nutrients and growth hormones, which the water would rapidly extract. I'm mainly looking for a supplement to some fish fertilizer I have.

Finally, I've read the FAQ, but it lacks any specifics on making kelp fertilizer from dried kelp.

Again, many thanks for any suggestions.

Couldn't you just buzz it in a food processor to a medium chop and stir several tablespoons of it dry around plants or into planting holes? I might add some cornmeal into the processor as well to give the mixture a bit more body.

That sounds good, I'll give it a try. Do you think it would be useful to foliar feed in addition to your suggestion?

So nobody ever made a kelp-based foliar feed? Anyone?

I read all over the internet about how wonderful kelp fertizler is, and that it makes a great tea for foliar feeding or soil drench, and like Nandina suggested, it's great to just sprinkle it on the ground and scratch it into the soil a bit. But nowhere do I find the actual AMOUNT of dried kelp to use. How much is enough...too much...just right?

The first time I made sh!t tea I had a similar problem, and I ended up burning half the roots in my garden because I didn't dilute it enough. I know organic gardening isn't an exact science, but doesn't anyone have even a ballpark recipe for kelp tea? Please?

I have been wondering about the same thing. As the weather approaches Spring I have directed my thoughts into preparing seeds, soils, fertilizers etc for the gardening season. I found this website which states that you could use 1:1 part ratio for nori and water. Hope this helps.

Here is a link that might be useful: What is in seaweed fertilizer

Nori is not seaweed. It is algae. Kelp meal is available in garden centers and professional garden suppliers.

Here is a link that might be useful: Nori

'Nori is not seaweed. It is algae' ??????? bluegoat - how are you defining 'seaweed' if Nori isn't included?

The first line of your Wiki link says that Nori is an example of a seaweed. Seaweeds are an example of algae. So yes, Nori is algae, but also seaweed. Maybe you meant that Nori is not kelp?

My point was not to confuse kelp and nori. Is the algae in my rain barrel seaweed? It would seem that the definition of seaweed is quite broad.

Anyone refine a method for this? I have some out of date nori sheets and am thinking about tearing them up and just burying them in the soil!

Funny. Just this afternoon I cut up a sheet of old nori and mixed it into some plumeria seedlings I was transferring. Hopefully it won't hurt the little guys.

A few sheets of nori aren't going to do anything dramatic to your garden.

Kelp - and other seaweed - is traditionally used as fertilizer, in LARGE quantities. Layers of it, several inches thick, left to rot over the winter for spring planting.

Well i container garden so i'd probably have enough nori to make a difference in a few of them. Do they require worms to break them up? If so, then i probably won't do it as i dun think there are many worms in them.

I am a seasoned worm and urban Farmer. I have recently found that compost tea with nori added can only help with added nutrition to the microbes already present. And if nothing other than nori is available i would absolutely compost it with or without worms present. 2 rules of thumb with true farming and gardening in my opinion: 1) there are no failures or real wrongs here just generations of natural instinct so trust yourself and never stop growing. And 2) if adding anything to compost tea or compost remember that if in any of your research you see that something is repeatedly used and you have it any form (i.e. dried, roasted, powdered, etc.) you should experiment and use it.

Hope this helps in the case of nori as a use in the garden. .

Take care and KEEP ON GROWING.

This would be very costly to use right? Sure you can compost this stuff but aren't these tiny expensive packages? Again they sell kelp meal and solutions for gardens. In sure you will find it works much better much more cost efficiently.

No, nori is not kelp. That's like saying corn is cannabis. Kelp is konbu in Japanese and it's a completely different kind of seaweed.