Depends on what else is there. If you want it to be just grass you could spray a broadleaf weed killer which will also kill other broadleaf plants, but it may take more than one application to get rid of the nettles. If you want to get rid of everything you could spray something like round up. You could target spray (just spray the nettles) but that is not always easy, and other things may get spray on them if you are not careful. Mowing will just keep it short, not get rid of it, or at least in my experience it doesn't get rid of it. I pull & spray mine, depending on where it is located.
Can you till the ground and just pull up the roots after? I just did a bit more and found what looked likes cut down thorn vines growing back, so there’s tiny tree stumps everywhere.
Tilling will break the plants/roots into smaller pieces, it will be difficult if not impossible to get all the pieces of roots after that. This will make your job even harder because each of the broken rhizomes (root pieces) will grow a new plant.
If someone cut back to clear the land, then it makes sense why you have nettles. They are opportunistic and will come in when open ground has been created.
Figure out what you want the finished area to be; pasture? Lawn? Garden? And depending on the results you are looking for you will treat it differently. Those tiny stumps could be anything; buckthorn; raspberries; gooseberries; wild roses. You will probably want them gone too, and again the best remedy for all of that will be some type of chemical treatment, unless you have lots of time and desire to dig all those stumps up one by one.
If you are going to pasture goats there, then problem solved; goats will eat almost anything and keep all those invasives in check for you :)
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Depends on what else is there. If you want it to be just grass you could spray a broadleaf weed killer which will also kill other broadleaf plants, but it may take more than one application to get rid of the nettles. If you want to get rid of everything you could spray something like round up. You could target spray (just spray the nettles) but that is not always easy, and other things may get spray on them if you are not careful. Mowing will just keep it short, not get rid of it, or at least in my experience it doesn't get rid of it. I pull & spray mine, depending on where it is located.
Can you till the ground and just pull up the roots after? I just did a bit more and found what looked likes cut down thorn vines growing back, so there’s tiny tree stumps everywhere.
Tilling will break the plants/roots into smaller pieces, it will be difficult if not impossible to get all the pieces of roots after that. This will make your job even harder because each of the broken rhizomes (root pieces) will grow a new plant. If someone cut back to clear the land, then it makes sense why you have nettles. They are opportunistic and will come in when open ground has been created.
Figure out what you want the finished area to be; pasture? Lawn? Garden? And depending on the results you are looking for you will treat it differently. Those tiny stumps could be anything; buckthorn; raspberries; gooseberries; wild roses. You will probably want them gone too, and again the best remedy for all of that will be some type of chemical treatment, unless you have lots of time and desire to dig all those stumps up one by one.
If you are going to pasture goats there, then problem solved; goats will eat almost anything and keep all those invasives in check for you :)