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Can you Overpower stinging nettles with wild plants???
Shaw2
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Can you Overpower stinging nettles with wild plants???
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Not in my experience - nettles will always win - and I've a great deal of experience of nettles.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Me too. Stinging nettles are wild plants and they can overpower anything shorter or anything that starts into growth later than themselves. Anything that's already established will win against new planting as well
In the sticks near Peterborough
anything that would overpower a stinging nettle bed will itself become a serious problem really quickly!
Unfortunately I don't think you can!
Nettles and bindweed would gang up together against you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They wouldn't stand a chance.
Japanese knotweed, maybe
In the sticks near Peterborough
No.. Simply.
One thing you can do is keep picking any new shoots though as soon as they appear.. Eventually they will work there way next door
Hi Shaw2, if there is not too many of them you could make use of them as they make good Nettle Tea, loads of Nitrogen in them stingers. good luck