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Phil Rees:

--- Quote from: Bill Skinner on November 09, 2010, 08:09:15 pm ---By now you should have lots of fibers and have started spinning them into thread?  Bill

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Hi Bill .... not quite.
Some of the nettles have rotted to the extent that they fell apart into a mush. However... I edged my bets a little and placed some bundles of nettles in wet long grass. these seem to have retted perfectly. The outer woody layer is now black and rubs off with your fingers, so I'll be laying this down in the barn over this weekend to dry.
So it should all now be moving onto the next phase.
Photo's to follow

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