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Posted by BigG up North (U1914634) on Wednesday, 19th May 2010
I read last year that you can make a good fertiliser with nettles, just leave them socking for a few months in a tub and then mix with water and it'll will act as a fertiliser and an insect repellant.
The problem is I did that, they've soaked over winter, I now have two large tubs, but I've lost the article - I'm so flaming disorganised!!!!
So a few questions:
1. What is the mix, is it one part to 5, 10, 20?
2. Which insets will it repel, I seem to recall that it may work on brassicas to deter butterflies.?
3. How often should I use it?
4. One tub is really dark, the other paler, does it make any difference?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as at least I can find the answers here!!!
Thank you again!!
What on earth is socking!!!! I meant soaking, can't even find the right keys on the computer now!!!!!!!
Thanks calendula - duly copied and printed and will put in my notes this evening - so hopefully won't lose that!!!
Thank you again
Ping
Yes,
Here's a good mixture.
Get a water butt, fill full of water, get tons of nettles, shove them in, and then the key ingredient - horse shit. Get the shit from off the road or wherever, and put it into the mixture. Leave for a month, and then you can feed anything with it, and just watch em grow!
Great for plants that need heavy feeds - tomato, melon etc.
Might just try that silo, I've got a pile rotting down in the corner of my veg patch - and a water butt and loads of nettles!!!!!! Not in the veg patch, but in sections of our our garden I allow to overgrow!!!.
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