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    First time of making comfrey tea. It's only a week old and my oh my what a stink. I can understand now why TS stuffs the leaves into plastic bottles to make it. It's only been in the buckets for a week and if you're down wind of it in the garden, it smells like somebody's muck spreading. I've decanted some of it into plastic bottles already. Good lesson learned and thank you Snadge and TS.
    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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    I was checking if my (nettle) tea was ready - opened the milk container, took a huge whiff and almost passed out. Was heaving afterwards, pwooooar!

    Good stuff though, eh?

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    • #3
      I was going to say "proof of the pudding" Chris, but it hardly bears thinking about with a smell like that. As you say, it must be good stuff. I've fed it to some of the veg so we'll see.
      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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      • #4
        I have some left over from last year which is devoid of smell! Whether its also devoid of nutrients, I don't know!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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        • #5
          you won't believe it but I actually like the smell

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Snadger View Post
            I have some left over from last year which is devoid of smell! Whether its also devoid of nutrients, I don't know!
            It would be interesting to find out Snadger
            Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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            • #7
              I've been and fetched nettles today, which are now stewing in a bucket. It was to feed my brassicas, but is there anything else it's good for? e.g. growing enormously long runner beans.
              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Snadger View Post
                I have some left over from last year which is devoid of smell! Whether its also devoid of nutrients, I don't know!
                Glad you've mentioned yours from last year not smelling any more I was starting to think I was getting immune to the smell.

                Anyway I started a fresh lot and tipped the 1/4 bucket from last year in my compost bin.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  Shoved comfrey leaves into plastic milk bottles a la Twosheds and added water. Loads of comfrey and nettles growing all in the lottie site's weed pile...woohoo!
                  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                  Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                    I've been and fetched nettles today, which are now stewing in a bucket. It was to feed my brassicas, but is there anything else it's good for? e.g. growing enormously long runner beans.
                    Nettle tea is a nitrogen feed. As legumes fix their own nitrogen it would be pretty pointless to feed them nettle tea. Comfrey may be worth a try though?
                    Last edited by Maccabee; 05-06-2011, 10:20 AM.

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                    • #11
                      i thought Comfrey tea was for flowering ?

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                      • #12
                        I've just read in the July GYO that you shouldn't put a cap on the bottle as it may ferment and explode and to use it undiluted.
                        Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                        • #13
                          i thought you had to dilute it ?

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                          • #14
                            Thank you. What else is nettle tea good for then, apart from brassicas?
                            Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                            By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                            While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                            At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by rth View Post
                              i thought Comfrey tea was for flowering ?
                              It is. Peas/beans produce flowers. Although, i don't know if any fertilisers are actually necessary, i just let em get on with it.

                              Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
                              I've just read in the July GYO that you shouldn't put a cap on the bottle as it may ferment and explode and to use it undiluted.
                              Undiluted? That stuff smells pretty potent. I'd love to see how a young plant, or any plant for that matter, would react to undiluted feed. Well, i wouldn't love to see it actually but you know what i mean.

                              Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                              Thank you. What else is nettle tea good for then, apart from brassicas?
                              So far i've found it good for young tomatoes and chillis/peppers, before they produce fruit. Courgettes when planting out to give them a good head start as they are hungry plants. Apparently it's good for garlic/onions too if they begin to look a little yellow.
                              Last edited by Maccabee; 05-06-2011, 01:21 PM.

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