Comments on: so what are nettles good for? http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Rosie http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-573 Rosie Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:43 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-573 Make sure it's got a well fitting lid!! Make sure it’s got a well fitting lid!!

]]> By: colouritgreen http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-572 colouritgreen Thu, 01 May 2008 09:54:07 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-572 I'll have to give it a go. just need to find some sort of bin to use...sure there must be something lying around ... I’ll have to give it a go. just need to find some sort of bin to use…sure there must be something lying around …

]]> By: Rosie http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-570 Rosie Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:09:24 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-570 I made mine today and even got two small boys to help fill up the bin with water!! The french love all sorts of plant brews for both food and pesticides as in this site: http://www.frenchgardening.com/tech.html?pid=3164873867231346 I made mine today and even got two small boys to help fill up the bin with water!! The french love all sorts of plant brews for both food and pesticides as in this site:

http://www.frenchgardening.com/tech.html?pid=3164873867231346

]]> By: colouritgreen http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-564 colouritgreen Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:27:58 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-564 anotehr good idea. bet pumpkins would like that... anotehr good idea. bet pumpkins would like that…

]]> By: Rosie http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-563 Rosie Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:34:01 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-563 I am just off to pick a big dustbinfull to make liquid plant food. Top dustbin with water, leave to infuse for 3-4 weeks and then use diluted 1:10 as plant food. But BEWARE - place well away from habitation - it stinks. It might not make uch of a dent in the amount you have got but at least it'll give you something useful. I am just off to pick a big dustbinfull to make liquid plant food. Top dustbin with water, leave to infuse for 3-4 weeks and then use diluted 1:10 as plant food. But BEWARE - place well away from habitation - it stinks. It might not make uch of a dent in the amount you have got but at least it’ll give you something useful.

]]> By: alifelesssimple http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-546 alifelesssimple Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:43:02 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-546 If your sheep won't eat them once they're pulled you could try borrowing a donkey from somewhere, that's how our top field got cleared of them, you don't even need to pull them up for them. If your sheep won’t eat them once they’re pulled you could try borrowing a donkey from somewhere, that’s how our top field got cleared of them, you don’t even need to pull them up for them.

]]> By: colouritgreen http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-545 colouritgreen Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:49:59 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-545 thanks Paula - the list is quite huge when you stop to think about it.. I intend to work my way through it all.. revenge as you say! Poppy from a life less simple also said animals will eat nettles if they have been cut and allowed to wilt - I shall ahve to try that.. but probably next winter as they have too much nice grass now! thanks Paula - the list is quite huge when you stop to think about it.. I intend to work my way through it all.. revenge as you say!

Poppy from a life less simple also said animals will eat nettles if they have been cut and allowed to wilt - I shall ahve to try that.. but probably next winter as they have too much nice grass now!

]]> By: paula http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/so-what-are-nettles-good-for/#comment-544 paula Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:26:41 +0000 http://colouritgreen.wordpress.com/?p=202#comment-544 Soup! My children loved it to distraction. The amount of tender nettle tops they brought into the kitchen could have kept us in soup for a decade or so. I don't know if it was a kind of sweet revenge - you sting me, I eat you? Dried as a good source of minerals for stock - if they'll eat them, and us too as teas or made into tinctures. Green manure along with comfrey leaves. Some more too but I'll have to go and think. Soup! My children loved it to distraction. The amount of tender nettle tops they brought into the kitchen could have kept us in soup for a decade or so. I don’t know if it was a kind of sweet revenge - you sting me, I eat you?

Dried as a good source of minerals for stock - if they’ll eat them, and us too as teas or made into tinctures.

Green manure along with comfrey leaves.

Some more too but I’ll have to go and think.

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