I topdessed this pot with nettle pulp from my tea and a seed survived the boiling water and sprouted!
And check this out, I have this other pot in which a couple of my plants have been struggling and I started top dressing with the pulp from the nettle tea I drink daily and behold, all kinds of sprouts popped up from seeds I sowed ages ago!
Can’t say I’ve done it myself, but I’ve seen some old school gardeners that pull up nettles (as well as other ‘weeds’) and soak them in buckets of water, for months at a time to create fertilisers.
Would Purple Nettle have any benefits?I have tons of it all over I leave it for the bees.I let it go wild and get like a foot tall I have tons of it everywhere
Doesn’t make much sense to me when you can simply use nettle as mulch, cut some of it down and top dress with it, it seems to stimulate mycorrhizal fungi, and it acts as a moisture barrier.
Never leave any soil bare and you’ll need a lot less water.
Mulch makes a garden so much more robust against both draught and frost.
And on top of that it feeds the soil.
The benefits stack up.
Any kind of nettle will do, cut some of it down and use it to enrich your soil, but leave some for the bees ofcourse! Thank you for thinking of the bees!
I was told growing cannabis next to stinging nettles causes an increased tricome effect from the two learning from each-other synergysticly.I wonder if that’s true?
1 kilogrammer / 2.2 lbs (fresh with roots) for 10 liters of rain water (optimal). Two weeks is the max in general, but when bubbles (fermentation) stop to be seen it’s ready to be stored in hermetic jerricans (plastic only). On the concept, it’s very similar to cannabutter in fact except the temps ^^
I made some fertilizer tea a couple of weeks ago. Green Willow Shoots and leaves(Best for Growth Hormones) Nettles, Dandelions, Aloe Vera, Thistles, and some other green and flowering plants.
I’m going to transplant some and use it as a cover crop in my fabric pot.It makes a real good moisture retention I noticed the areas it grows are always nice and moist and for some reason it always attracts the praying mantis around here.I always find them or thier egg clusters in clumps of the stuff.I don’t ever have to spray for bugs with them and the lady bugs anymore the lady bugs like hanging out on it too
high I agree it is amazing fertilizer, it contains silica so it makes plants really strong, apparently just after first application… and silica reduce biotic stress at plants… so they are more happy…
I use it only outdoors/greenhouse as it can get really stinky! but I saw they are selling some nettle tea for indoors…
I put nice fresh strong nettles into barrel with water and cover it, in week on the sun it is done… I dont filter it at all, it is needed to get air to it, as air kills pathogens, and by time it gets more and more stinky LOL and after month or more it gets really strong, so be careful with it, and kind of more dense than water. yup!
plants have more tough cell structure, so tough that it is even hard for insect to bite it. miracle fertilizer to me!
yeah any silica is good. but nettle tea or nettle brew contains other beneficial elements, like amino acids, proteins and minerals. N, Fe, Mg, Zn etc… also these vitamins: A, B1, B5, C, D, E, and K
it is really visible, after first application, like plants are boosted and stronger…quicker in growth…
