How to make Natural Organic Nitrogen Rich Plant Food Fertilizer from Nettles

Just a quick video showing how easy it is to make your own Nitrogen and Trace Element Rich Natural Organic plant and vegetable feed for the garden from Nettles.
Simply pick a bucket full of nettles,new growth is best but older plants will do,then chop this up a little in the bucket and simply leave to soak in a bucket of water for around a week.
After a week or so the leaves will start to break down and release the nutrients and trace elements and turn into a brown liquid.
Then simply sieve the liquid and store.
Use this feed on any plants or vegetables around the garden but especially leafy green plants like lettuce or cabbages as they appreciate a bit of extra Nitrogen.
Dilute the feed so that it's about the colour of weak tea and that's about it.
Cheap,natural,organic feed from the humble nettle.

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[iowanne]

Do you use this fertilizer on your tomato and pepper plants? How often do you water with this diluted liquid?

[allotmentdiary]

@iowanne You can use it on the toms and peppers until you get fruit appearing then switch to a more Potash feed.

As for how often you'd use it I'm not sure as it depends how much you dilute it really.

Trial and error I suppose.

Cheers,Dan

[SquareFootGardening5]

Can you use it direct when you made it?

[allotmentdiary]

@SquareFootGardening5 You want to dilute it down so that it's about the colour of weak tea and then you can water the plants with it.

Cheers,Dan.

[dragon66139]

stupid question ik but wud it work on cannabis plants?

[ReviveUK]

lovely brew..i've read nettles are useful for chuckin on the compost heap as well, said to speed up decomp process...for iowanne I also read comfrey tea is higher potash so more suitable for toms and peppers once they've flowered/fruiting

[poojkhgf]

I use it too but add rabbit droppings and urine (human)

[kokonutbaby1]

could u do this with any kind of weeds as I dont have nettles but I do have alot of weeds around?

[Teddybearcop48]

This looks like a wonderful idea. I wonder how much nitrogen is in the green tea if any. Has anyone had this tested... Thank You ! !

[FJvoodoo]

I do something similar but as compost tea, i use compost about 4 cups of compost to a five gallon bucket and 1 cup of molasas or corn syrup to brew with. This looks like it has lots more nitrogen in it, what a combination, must try both together, thanks for the tip...

[FJvoodoo]

That's one hell of a bucket, plastic i assume? I need to find one of those, the ones from Lowes must be made out of regrind as they break really easy.

[SquareFootGardening5]

@allotmentdiary Alright thank you very much, Eric