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The first nettle harvest of the year. Nettle soup will be on tomorrow’s menu and I’ll start making some nettle fermented plant juice too.
Good food for us and good food for the plants.
Nettles are a great addition to a compost heap too. #GrowYourOwn #Allotment #Gardening
Provided they haven't flowered, and your compost heap works.
@Badgardener Well, if someone’s compost heap doesn’t work one of the better things they can do with it is add a compost accelerator like nettle leaves to it.
I take your point clarifying the use of nettle leaves before they’ve flowered.
If making a hot compost it’s ok to use the whole plant at whatever stage of its life. It will compost down beautifully in this context.
Generally, I leave my nettle patch alone after late spring so it can become the insect rich habitat it should be.
Someone's compost heap has never worked, because someone never turns the damn thing over and never gets the balance right. Someone is getting a new chipper today, so someone can actually go back to basics with the compost and mulching. Hopefully, someone will actually produce something resembling compost by the end of the year.
@Badgardener Ha! Don’t forget to add some water to it too. Good luck. Do all those things and you won’t fail to have some pretty good compost.
Throw in some chicken manure and you could have some hot compost going on too.