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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Neezy13 on April 15, 2011, 08:39

Title: Use nettles in potato trenches
Post by: Neezy13 on April 15, 2011, 08:39

Ive read about using comfrey to line potato trenches, would stinging nettles have a similar affect?

Title: Re: Use nettles in potato trenches
Post by: arugula on April 15, 2011, 08:44

Sounds interesting, but I would say that the potatoes are already in the ground and the nettles are only just starting to come up, here anyway....

:)

Title: Re: Use nettles in potato trenches
Post by: Neezy13 on April 15, 2011, 08:48

I wish mine were, ive only just got my allotment yesterday :)
I can get my hands on lots of nettles but no comfrey as of yet.

Title: Re: Use nettles in potato trenches
Post by: arugula on April 15, 2011, 08:54

Well done you and good luck with the lottie. :) See what others say about the nettles, you do make nettle tea after all.....

Title: Re: Use nettles in potato trenches
Post by: Neezy13 on April 15, 2011, 08:57

Thanks.  :)
Yeah thats what i thought, just want to make sure nobody else has tried and had a bad result from it.