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  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    I've decided we need to pick nettles - you can make liquid plant feed from them, they help to activate compost, then there is nettle beer, soup, etc, etc.. I made nettle pesto once which was quite tasty!
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    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    oooo now thats interesting...not sure I'll go as far as eating them though squizz

    There is also something else that you need to grow...comfrey is it? Can't think which plant it is that needs it as a fertilizer though...i'll be back with the answer :)
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  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/index.php

    obviously has similar properties to Nettles
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Hmm I've read about using comfrey - it smells pretty bad when you're 'fermenting' it apparently!

    Nettles taste OK - very, erm, green. Lots of iron in them as well.
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    Yes it does say that about it...ah if its down the allotment I won't care, as long as its the other end away from my shed :)
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Payday today! All the usual debt payments have come out so that's another £120 off my total. Only £45 left on my smallest debt so going to pay that off completely I think.

    Had a really good run last night, 3.7 very hilly miles in 39:11 - feel like I'm properly getting back into it now. Attempting 8 miles at the weekend!

    No further on the house situation, I was too sleepy last night to manage much in the way of conversation :rotfl: Things are generally lovely though :)
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    edited 22 January 2010 at 11:57AM
    And I've just paid off that £45 - wooo and indeed hooo! :D

    (and an extra, er, £1.47 off my overdraft to bring me to a nice round £9700!)
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • beanielou
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    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Great news on one debt down :)
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  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    redsquirrel80 wrote: »
    No further on the house situation, I was too sleepy last night to manage much in the way of conversation :rotfl: Things are generally lovely though :)

    what better time to have the conversation than when you're sleepy and things are generally lovely!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Thanks Beanie. I am not being entirely :A today - just spent a fiver on lunch from M&S!

    Tonight I think Maz.. after a couple of glasses of wine ;) I am going to ask him outright whether he thinks I should still have my own place and go home now and then.. or not!
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
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