Stinging nettle soup
Now that the stinging nettles are growing well in the hedgerows, it is the time to put them to good use. Yesterday I started to make a fantastic plant feed using stinging nettles. Gather up a good carrier bag full of stinging nettles, leaves and stalks. All you have to do is scrunch them up at the bottom of a bucket and weight them down with a brick and fill the bucket with water. Just leave the nettles in a corner of the garden for about 2 weeks - you will certainly be able to smell when it is ready.
This is quite natural and a wonderful, nitrogen rich organic feed for all the garden. The smell comes from the breakdown of the plant matter, resembles cow manure.... and you may get a few flies showing interest. This green / brown liquid is highly concentrated and you dilute it one cupful to a gallon of water. Use it as a feed for plants. This can also be used as a foliar feed. It really works!
posted by Matron @ 6:50 PM
1 Comments:
I certainly have plenty of nettles around so I might just try this. The only thing is we have half a plot so we're very very close to our neighbours- I wonder what they'll think of the smell!
I heard they make good compost activator too, so I've been trimming them down periodically and throwing them in the compost bin.
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