Ivyrose I don’t follow your argument, to “either compost these nettles or get rid of them using a weedkiller”, because once dug up you can as you say, compost them!
Nettles are way easier to remove than say couch grass, as Leif writes above.
You can also mulch them if the compost is deep enough (about 6in, with thick cardboard first) or with polythene for average 6 months.
I see no need to use glyphosphate on any weeds and disagree that it does not affect soil. That is Monsanto propaganda. More and more research is showing the damage to wildlife from glyphosphate, not to mention to humans – did you know that a fair amount of wheat and potato crops are sprayed with glyphosphate just before harvest? Farmers do this because it kills the leaves and makes combining/potato harvesting easier…
We need to keep our gardens free of these poisons.
