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from Rick McGreal contains these words:

I has looking through the FAQ and found this....
http://www.nugget.demon.co.uk/MetaFAQ/nettle.html

Now...As a man on a very tight budget I can't really afford to go around
buying these really expensive lawn feeds....

Will this work oin my lawn to give a bit of an umpfh???
And as my compost pile is slow to kick in I doubt I'm going to get much out
of that this year! B-)

I have an old 2 gallon plastic beer keg that the last tennants kindly left
and I have been using to collect rain water....And I have access to
literally TONS of nettles....

Is it worth my investing 2 hours collecting the nettles and starting this
off?

Yes, but filling a two gallon container with nettles will take you
about 5 minutes max if you wear gloves and use a serrated breadknife to
cut the stems.

Cut green nettles in 6 " layers between other compost ingredients,
will also apply some oomph to your compost heap and get it working. They
can also be used as a weed and slug suppressing mulch between rows in
the veg garden.

Janet.