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We’ve always been big fans of seaweed and fish products for the garden, but we have noticed there’s a bit of confusion around what their purposes are and whether they’re the same or different. So we asked horticulturist, agriculturist and permaculturist Steve McGrane to give us an in-depth explanation of what these products are, how they’re derived and how they work on soil and plants — separately and together. Something else we wanted explained, this time by Megg Miller, is what factors affect our chooks’ egg output. My chickens, which are all about five to six years old now, temporarily stopped laying for the first time ever at the end of summer/early autumn. I knew it was normal, but the timing seemed a bit off, plus I’ve been lucky in that…