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As we are for a dry spell - I am going to go to the lottie and water my soon to be brassica bed with neat nettle tea   :-X.   If I survive (it nearly killed my mate the other night when he went to look at my frog) I will let you know what happend to the weeds.  I am going to go quite late so hopefully will not disturb other lottiers with the stink - fell a bit sorry for the local residents though.

I've got some nettle soup brewing in my (small) garden. I thought it can't smell as bad as they reckon on A4A.

I was very, very wrong.  :o

Even the dog won't go near it...

OK, bit of a novice on the nettle tea/soup delights!  How do you make it? Why do you make it? Do you use it like comfrey? Is it truly that awful!!!!!  Lottie  ;D

http://www.nettles.org.uk/nettles/activities/nettlemanure.asp
tells you all you need to know. But smelling is believing...

I opened last years bucket the other day  you think the new stuff is bad! :o  :o  :o  try and wash that smell from your hands! ;D

QuoteI opened last years bucket the other day

Last year's bucket!!! That's not fertiliser, it's a WMD...

Using it tonight undiluted as it is supposed to kill weeds with fertiliser burn.  Have already used it diluted for my cabbages abd thy look grand.  And Doris, you're right - the stuff is impossible to wash off your hands - I have some very sturdy chemical gloves and I am wearing old clothes!

TM I was thinking of selling it overseas...............................But the sniffer dogs in customs would all die! ;D

Chemical gloves RC, now theres a thought, think it would burn through me marigolds! ;D

Tee hee-Red Clanger-you were more than welcome to the comfrey but I take NO responsibility for the stink you cause.

Stephan

Hack-ack-ack, urgh!!!!  Well, not too bad really, after the first watering can of the stuff - I had a fermenting bin and a dustbin full off the stuff to get through - trouble, I now cannot smell or taste my beer  :(

Can't taste beer, DISASTER :( :( :(

HAHAHA.  You lot have really made me laugh with this post!  ;D

I also have a pot brewing but mine doesn't smell that bad. It doesn't smell good, but not particularly awful. So either my brew isn't strong enough or I've got no sense of smell!

Wondered what that pong was RC  ;D, think you may have contaminated the whole of Lincolnshire  :)  :)

Sounds like good stuff, I've got the perfect patch of nettles in my garden, I'm going to start up my own batch of nettle tea and stink out my neighbours too!

Went and had a look today.  Weeds still looking healthy  >:(, and a bit of a pungeant smell still hanging around.

i inadvertently made some pong soup with the bindweed roots i was drowning in a bucket. it didnt smell bad until i disturbed the bucket :eek:
a sewage plant had nothing on it.