Vere - I make and use nettle tea. I make and use comfrey tea. Following Elaine Ingham, however, has made me question my use of anaeorobic teas. Intellectually, that is. I still have the same heart-connection to using herb water than you have expressed.
HOWEVER, I want to ask everyone: my current 50 gallons of nettle tea (now down to the last 10) has gone quite black (spent weeks very brightly GREEN). I'm wondering if anyone knows if I could harm anything with this tea. I have set up one of Will Brinton's CRESS TESTS for this tea (as well as for some very black chicken manure tea) but the results are not in yet. -Allan >Allan, > >I just began using it for the first time in June. My garden looks very >healthy but I've seen nothing to attribute to the nettle water, positive or >negative. But I now know what Steiner meant when he referred to the >importance of involving oneself in one's crop growing rather than buying >commodities off the shelf. I got the nettles free by the Red River near >me. I've been able to pot up some stinging nettles and get them growing in >my yard. > >I was impressed and intrigued by Rolf Peterson and Paul Jensen's >(University of Lund, Sweden) "Effects of nettle water on growth and mineral >nutrition of plants", parts I and II in Biological Agriculture & >Horticulture 1985, 1986. Do you know if there has been any follow-up on >their work? > >I find it a delightful experience cooking up my own fermentations. I've >made some hoseradish water too (same proportions as the nettle water). But >I don't know how to use it. Next time I'll try burdock water. > >Do you know Dr. O.W. (Oscar Werner) "Ben" Grussendorf of Woodlands, >Manitoba? He is the only biodynamic farmer I know of in Manitoba. I met >him in 1982-83. He was my introduction to biodynamics. > >Vere. > > >Allan Balliett wrote: >> >> Vere - >> >> What results are YOU getting from your nettle tea? -Allan
