Friday, November 25, 2011

Nettle Tea - A Good Fertilizer for Your Plants

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Regularly drinking it can help you to regulate your blood sugar or hormone levels and it's good on fighting health ailments such as hair loss, skin, respiratory and joint problems. But this powerhouse tea does not stop with your body! Nettle tea can also work on your garden and it is considered to be a good substitute for any chemical fertilizers.

Gardening at home may require too much time, work and effort such as visiting stores just to purchase fertilizers and giving it to your plants. Do you actually call it natural? The plants living in a natural environment do not need any fertilizer and they can live for years. On the other hand, using chemical fertilizers may not be advisable for your fruit or vegetable garden. Why put so much effort into growing a healthy garden when you will still utilize artificial fertilizers?

Here's this tea to help you! The high nitrogen and iron contents found in this tea gives much needed nutritional boost to leafy plants (although advocates recommend avoiding the use of nettle tea on roses and tomatoes, as its iron content may be too much for these plants to handle). Additionally, it also seems to give plants immunity to plant disease and insects when either added to the soil or sprayed directly on the plants. It works best when combined with manure to facilitate better fermentation process among your plants.

A less concentrated recipe is needed when nettle tea is used as a fertilizer than when it is drunk by people. There really is no need for exact measurements; simply grab a few handfuls of nettle leaves (wearing gloves, of course!), put them in a bucket, fill that bucket with water and let the mixture sit for ten to fifteen days. Once your nettle leaves soak in the water, your natural fertilizer is now ready! Keep in mind that this concoction will start to smell...horribly (doesn't all fertilizer?); make sure you keep it somewhere while it is fermenting where it will not become obnoxious to you or your neighbors (unless you do not like them!). It can be difficult to enjoy a scenic garden if there's a horrible smell around. Another important note when making nettle tea fertilizer is to continue using gloves when handling it. Nettle teas for human consumption have no stingers because it has been boiled. In contrast, the stingers are not deactivated (this may hurt you so be careful!) as this fertilizer is not boiled.

In addition, you can find easy to use, helpful information about Nettle Tea at http://nettleteahq.com/

Nettle Tea HQ is a site dedicated to helping everyone benefit from all that nettle tea has to offer. Drop by and say hi!

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