"Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Newbie here, usually I can be found on rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
but hubby and I are foraying out into the jungle that is our garden,
and would like to start asking questions if we may...

We bought a couple of chocolate cosmos plants from a garden centre a
little while ago, currently they are still in their pots while we
battle against the 45 foot x 8 foot nettle patch we laughingly call a
garden. The label says nothing apart from the fact they are chocolate
cosmos - or cosmos chocolate, depending on which way you read it...

We seem to remember seeing chocolate smelling plants being advertised
somewhere, and I'm sure one of the myriad gardening programmes we have
on cable touched on them some time, but we don't quite know what to do
with them. They smell wonderful, and keep throwing out new flowers,
and we really don't want to kill them off...

Any suggestions please?

Oh, and whilst we're on the subject of nettles, any suggestions on a
brand of systemic weedkiller that'll actually get rid of the buggers,
rather than be treated like a feed and enable them to grow bigger?

Glyphosate does the trick. It acts slowly but surely. You may need more
than one application.
[Franz Heymann]

Thanks,
Suzie B
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Southend, UK
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