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Or you cold eat the seaweed too!!! Makes great soup!

Do you rinse the salt off first? for the fertiliser?

I wonder if its like freezing sloe before making sloe gin - noticeable difference in flavour - better with ones that have been frozen first and then smashed a bit to let the flavour out - must be some chemical thing :)

MARIGOLDS: (Calendula): Keeps soil free of bad nematodes. The marigolds you choose must be a scented variety for them to work. One down side is that marigolds do attract spider mites and slugs. French Marigold (T. patula) These marigolds also help to deter whiteflies when planted around tomatoes and...

Love this post!!! Thanks for all the ideas!!!

PS I still have dried nettles on my wall from last years crop! Still taste as good :) Not sure if they have any goodness in them?

:)

Thank you - sounds like will pull them up then?!

After the two weeks of sun, lots of "weeds" I've left some to see what they turned into...still none the wiser....Help!!!

My Mooli has bolted and flowered and my radish is straight and has huge leaves and my pots have 2-3ft high tops!!! What on earth is going on this year!!!!????????

Second year I've sown Echinacea and nothing

Everything else is thriving, I have seeds, seedlings, loads of peas and Nasturtiums to swop

I'm in Bournemouth or can post :)

how do i post it as a photo not an attachment???

Hello Rick&Carol - you made me think I should post a pic of my nettle tea.....well nettles :)

definitely need photo :)

do you have storage heaters in canada...they're electric run heaters...well find some old scrapped ones and take the bricks out, these are like lava stones and absorb all the heat of the sun in the day and let it out slowly through the night. If you need to use solar or other forms of heat it will c...

Spooky I asked the same question on wild food section!!!

Does heating to dry them not get rid of all their goodness?

Thanks

Thanks ftb :)

FAB - thanks been buying mine from health food shop and costs a fortune - will make some :)

Acorn sounds interetsing!!!!

How about NETTLE TEA, I buy this too, I couldn't think of a way to dry the nettles to make tea without of getting rid of all there goodness????????