Dear List, <div><br><div>I am living in tropical East Africa and have recently moved to a house near the sea. I have some experience in setting up and designing domestic scale biodigesters and am planning on installing a flexible bag or fixed dome digester at my new place in the next couple of weeks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am planning on using cow manure as the principle substrate but was wondering whether I could make use of the large quantities of Sea Grass (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:1.1em"><a href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/173375/0">Thalassodendron ciliatum</a>) </span>which is washed up on the beach every day. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone know whether this would be a suitable substrate for co-digesting with the cow manure? If so any recommendations on feeding rates per kg of cow manure? </div><div><br></div><div>Also I am intending to use the bioslurry as a soil improver and fertiliser on my land and would like to know whether the salt content of the seagrass is likely to have a negative impact on the slurry/soil. I'm not keen on using precious fresh water to wash it first...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any pointers or links to resources would be welcome. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Oliver</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:x-small">Oliver Kynaston</span></div>
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