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Stinging Nettles in lawn

How do you get rid of stinging nettles in lawns? I love walking bare foot on grass and they ventured onto the lawn when it was neglected for two years. Dan x Use a selective weedkiller for treating broad-leaf weeds like dandelions- it will not harm by Doctor_63

31/07/2012 21:13:44

by Doctor_63

Talkback: Stinging nettles

crop, there is 5' deep of stingers, apart from chopping off the tops to prevent them towering over my fence, would the RoundUp weedkiller be safe to use? Muffymoo, I have the same problem. Those country stinging nettles can get really tall. They are good by Debs

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06/06/2012 09:19:59

by Laura Corin

liquid plant food

Learn how to turn clumps of stinging nettles to your advantage, by turning them into nitrogen-rich, liquid plant food Does this mean i dont have to buy fertilser or anything else I already use lots of manure on my plants and the soil Thanks I think by pash2

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26/06/2012 18:22:35

by pash2

Talkback: Scent and memory

The scent of dock leaves take me back to my childhood and trying to alleviate the sting from nettles. Kate, But A gardenia always reminds of how my late husband went into a flower shop in Bristol centre on our forst date and came out with one made by happymarion

20/06/2012 14:33:03

by Kate Bradbury

Talkback: Nettles

Samaritan clearing up great clumps of public nettles when actually i am just feeding my rather woody compost. I have to say nettles the English type give me a sting that lasts for at least a week but I also have the very pretty dead nettle in my garden by hereisabee

28/11/2011 18:36:39

by Gartenzwerg

Nettles for Butterflies

to the Butterfly Conservation they say Stinging nettles http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/downloads/48/gardening.html I grow a couple of patches of the horrible, stinging ones simply because they were there when I moved in so I just keep them under control. One by Green P

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08/07/2012 21:33:37

by Green P

fertiliser

hello, I would like to make my own compost to feed my tomatos can I make this either from stinging nettles or sheep droppings if so how do I make it, Janet What I do is 3/4 fill a container with stinging by njridgway

11/05/2012 19:07:40

by ladygardener2

Talkback: Feeding plants

nettles for the first time this year but I'm now in a dilemma as to what to feed with it and how much & how often to feed??Anyone else use stinging nettle feed successfully and can help me with my dilemma by Abby2

31/07/2012 17:25:02

by Sparklepinksunflower

Talkback: 10 uses for nettles

in the old times. The blisters were with red mud to recover.AR vivian allman wrote (see) can you buy nettle plants? I'm not aware that you can buy plants, but you can certainly buy seeds, from many stockists of wildflowers. It may be sold as Stinging Nettle by spidea

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21/07/2012 06:18:49

by Gary Hobson

One for the ladies...

plants are used in my life but was wondering if there was anyone else that did the same? um dock leaves for nettle stings, um i read somewhere parsley is a powerful aphrodisiac. I'ce seen big fields of opium poppies grown in lincolnshire by the showground by Sam Glendinning

09/04/2013 00:07:23

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