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Free organic fertiliser

Last post 05-06-2009 11:32 PM by bigsusan55. 4 replies.

• 11/04/2009 01:46 PM
  Rflcopter Location: Joined on: 13 Mar 2009 Posts: 17	Reply | Contact Hey I heard this on a show last year but I have never tried it out. Get a bucket of water, and fill with nettle tops. Leave for a week and remove the nettles and you are left with a free organic fertiliser! Has anyone here tried this and does it really have much benefit to the plants? Look here : http://www.nettles.org.uk/nettles/activities/nettlemanure.asp

• 11/04/2009 04:27 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  I've not tried nettles, but I've made comfrey fertiliser. It stinks! Making use of something that's usually a nuiscance sounds like a good idea though. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 13/04/2009 02:01 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact  I make the comfrey one too.  You can also use the nettle and comfrey together and don't forget to stick a lid on the bucket sue1002

• 05/06/2009 03:26 PM	In reply to
  ericg Location: Hampshire Joined on: 22 May 2009 Posts: 3	Reply | Contact  on this very subject, i produce my own organic fertilizer with a beehive wormery! the worm eat most of my green and home waste and produce fertilizer that's great for my plants. i got mine from earth-essentials

• 05/06/2009 11:32 PM	In reply to
  bigsusan55 Location: North-West London Joined on: 14 May 2009 Posts: 144	Reply | Contact  The water from one of my butts is always rich from leaves that have been washed in.  Absolutely stinks, but the plants seem to like it. Susan B