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Nettles
Ashdale
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I am trying to cultivate a patch of my garden a fruit and cutting garden. The patch has been overgrown with waste-high nettles for many years before we lived here and they are very difficult to get rid of. I garden organically and don't want to use chemicals. I have weeded as best I can this year butnthe nettles are very resilient. i have coved much of the patch with pieces of old carpet and planted the flowers for cutting in pots rather than risk them in the ground. Will this kill off the nettles, or at least weaken them for next year. Btw, I already have other wild areas of the garden for insects, butterflies, etc
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I'd say if it's covered for a year, if they're not dead, they should be a lot easier to dig out.
If you don't manage to get rid of them, I find they make good garden food when steeped in rain water, and that keeps them down as well.
Nettles aren't that hard to dig up but the seeds keep germinating for years
In the sticks near Peterborough