Homemade fertilizer

[Blueszz]

Originally Posted by BlakeeBoo

Do you know if you can make tea out of that kind of nettle?

Yes you can! In some stores here, you can buy various sorts of dried herbs including dried nettle. The only thing you have to do is pour boiled water over it and guess what, it even doesn't tast bad
Some other herbs can be used fresh when you want to make thee from them, I don't know if this is the case too with nettles.

In spring, I collect the young sprouts and let them dry. My guinea pigs love this dried herb too.

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Blueszz

Yes you can! In some stores here, you can buy various sorts of dried herbs including dried nettle. The only thing you have to do is pour boiled water over it and guess what, it even doesn't tast bad
Some other herbs can be used fresh when you want to make thee from them, I don't know if this is the case too with nettles.

In spring, I collect the young sprouts and let them dry. My guinea pigs love this dried herb too.

I think the post you quoted [Do you know if you can make tea out of that kind of nettle?] was referring to the Bull nettle and NOT the stinging nettle. I would not make a tea for people out of the bull nettle, since it is a completely different plant.

[Blueszz]

Originally Posted by camille1585

I think the post you quoted [Do you know if you can make tea out of that kind of nettle?] was referring to the Bull nettle and NOT the stinging nettle. I would not make a tea for people out of the bull nettle, since it is a completely different plant.

Oops, I obvious didn't read well. I thought it was about the stinging nettle.

[greenbean]

Urea is produced by reacting air with natural gas, producing anhydrous ammonia. The anhydrous ammonia is then reacted with a by-product of the previous reaction, carbon dioxide, to produce urea.

There are two main problems with urea. One is that it uses up fossil fuel resources, mainly natural gas. Much of the nitrogen in urea is also lost to the atmosphere as ammonia. However, it should also be mentioned that synthetic fertilizers are not the biggest pollutants by a long shot. Also, too much organic fertilizer could have the same impact as another problem with synthetic fertilizers, run-off and pollution of water. Both can cause a harmful increase in nutrient levels in water systems, among other things causing massive algae blooms and disrupting entire ecosystems. But urea-based synthetic fertlizers are more likely to cause these problems than organic fertlizers.