Topic: compost

[petuariapete]

Soak some nettles in a large bucket of water to make an infusion. Diluted it makes a great feed.

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[saddad]

Anything organic will compost: the world isn't knee deep in dead Horsetail plants, and as they have been around since the Carboniferous Period we would be otherwise! Try to compost a few in a compost bag or three, one inside the other to avoid puncture, we do this with couch and it makes an excellent mulch after 2-3 years... and no I haven't reintroduced couch even when I used some after one season and the couch was still recognisable as pieces of root!
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[artichoke]

I agree: starting off my current allotment, I bagged up all the nasty weeds with persistent roots such as creeping buttercup, couch grass, bindweed, dandelion, docks, nettles (What a depressing list) and three years later put them back into the soil with a great deal of vengeful satisfaction as a nice brown mixture which certainly did not spring back to life.

That allotment is reasonably clean now - just needs regular hoeing for weed seedlings and a close watch around the edges where the communal grass paths creep into the plot.