Planting weeds? An unconventional solution to say the least.

Sargassum is not so rare, actually it is quite common.  You learn something new every day.  Well, it's new to me anyway.  It washes up onshore in the nearby locale of Crystal Beach, Texas.   A little over an hour's drive from downtown Houston.

Question:  could you transplant this stuff into the Dead Zone, and will it grow there? This book might give clues to answering that question.  If it could grow there, it would bring the Dead Zone to life and it would turn the dirty water into beautiful crystal blue water.  Well, maybe it wouldn't, but the video below seems to find a strong correlation between clean water and sargassum.

Change is in the Air – Seaweed, Seaweed Everywhere!

Over recent weeks, scientists and resource managers in such diverse places as Trinidad, the Dominican Republic and Sierra Leone have been reporting unusual incidents of seaweed washing ashore in massive quantities. The seaweed is a type of brown algae known as Sargassum, which commonly drifts on ocean currents of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. This algae is well-known for washing up en masse on beaches in places such as Florida, Texas and Bermuda.

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Uses for Sargassum

Alternative Uses of Sargassum