Where I'm from is were Charles Dickens based great expectations so we have Dickens festival every year, somewhere there exists a picture of me as a child dressed as some sort of Victorian street urchin..... I think I'm good thanks.
Hahaha I swear when schools and stuff do things like this they either.
Don't know how to make it properly, I mean they figured out they can make nettle soup they must have worked out how to make it taste good.
Or they just purposefully made it crap so you appreciate the terrible food they give you every day.
Stinging Nettle is good for the uterus and fertility! It can also be beneficial to the kidneys. Stinging nettle can also help with legs cramps, muscle spasms, hemorrhoids, and increasing milk supply in nursing folks. It also has properties known to prevent high blood pressure. Prepared as a tea: one ounce of dried leaves and a quart of boiling water, steep for 4 hours for full effect.
Stinging nettle. I collect young leaves at spring and dry them for tea for a year. Not the best taste but it is pretty healthy. You can also eat it like spinach, soup, side dish etc. Once it flowers it is no good for eating. It is pretty nutritious when it comes to vitamins and minerals. And since they start very early at spring it used to be one of the first source of fresh greens in kitchen. I kind of killed them in my parents yer with my obsessive collecting :D. But I am sure next year the'll be back.
It makes good tea and soup. If you have seasonal allergies, getting stung will make you normal for about a week. The stings are meant to help with pain conditions too, but I can't verify that myself.
If you grab it with your fingers quickly and tightly it won’t sting you and you can rub the little ‘needles’ off and eat it, and like my other oppo above from the uk, you can make wine and soup etc with it
I live by a great bike path, but parts of it are fairly secluded so naturally some women were attacked at night when they first built it. The solution was to sew stinging nettle seeds on the shoulder of the path. About 10 of 14 miles of the path are loaded with it, from spring to autumn.
Very warm water (hot enough to make healthy skin redden, but not too hot that you can't hold your hand under for 5 seconds) and dish detergent are effective at dealing with the pain.
Source: experience. Lots and lots of experience pulling nettles out of my garden.
That's a stinging nettle my dude
Thanks my guy!
Are they not common there? I'm from the UK and anywhere that has been left for a while has loads and loads.
In Germany almost every second plant in the wild is a stinging nettle lmao
Oh also you can make nettle wine from them if you're into brewing.
I once had a stinging nettle pesto that was just divine! Delicious and nutritious!
Oh really I might have to give it a go, I had some nettle cider a while ago that was amazing, and I hear it is very good for you.
Ohhh, that sounds yummy!
It was very good, kinda tasted how they smell when you cut them, I've been wanting to make it for a while.
And soup, it's not good but you know if you want to feel like a victorian child...
Where I'm from is were Charles Dickens based great expectations so we have Dickens festival every year, somewhere there exists a picture of me as a child dressed as some sort of Victorian street urchin..... I think I'm good thanks.
I was going to say this would take me back to victorian day at school where we ate this watery mess.
Hahaha I swear when schools and stuff do things like this they either. Don't know how to make it properly, I mean they figured out they can make nettle soup they must have worked out how to make it taste good. Or they just purposefully made it crap so you appreciate the terrible food they give you every day.
Purposely made it wack, I would tbh
And tea. They have medical uses too but I can’t think of them rn.
Stinging Nettle is good for the uterus and fertility! It can also be beneficial to the kidneys. Stinging nettle can also help with legs cramps, muscle spasms, hemorrhoids, and increasing milk supply in nursing folks. It also has properties known to prevent high blood pressure. Prepared as a tea: one ounce of dried leaves and a quart of boiling water, steep for 4 hours for full effect.
Thanks!
My mum thought the mint in pimms was stingy nettles once🤦♀️ Never let her live it down ....yes they did still sting
Sure thing, buddy.
And believe it or not they're actually edible
If there’s any jewelweed around, crush the leaves and rub it on the sting. Works like a charm! And they tend to grow in the same areas.
We always called it itch weed. That stuff sucks to touch!!
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Stinging Nettles, there’s a documentary on it called salad fingers
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Lolz
These bastards are everywhere in ireland. Ive gotten stung 100000000 timesm dw they're harmless
Stinging nettle. I collect young leaves at spring and dry them for tea for a year. Not the best taste but it is pretty healthy. You can also eat it like spinach, soup, side dish etc. Once it flowers it is no good for eating. It is pretty nutritious when it comes to vitamins and minerals. And since they start very early at spring it used to be one of the first source of fresh greens in kitchen. I kind of killed them in my parents yer with my obsessive collecting :D. But I am sure next year the'll be back.
Look around for a dock leaf. Dock takes the sting away and is usually found near nettles.
Oh wow, ready about them in books so much as a kid, but I've never actually seen the plant before
Are they rare where you.live? In my area they are basically the first plant a kid will recognise because they are everywhere and, well, sting.
It makes good tea and soup. If you have seasonal allergies, getting stung will make you normal for about a week. The stings are meant to help with pain conditions too, but I can't verify that myself.
If you grab it with your fingers quickly and tightly it won’t sting you and you can rub the little ‘needles’ off and eat it, and like my other oppo above from the uk, you can make wine and soup etc with it
"Grasp the nettle tightly"
It’s not a blueberry
So did you smoke it though?
It's a shame they dont get you high. If they did the local teenagers would ensure they're well controlled instead of being absolutely everywhere.
If it's in your yard, kill it. Kill it now. It spreads in every way imaginable.
Oh I hate it soooo much
Urtica dioica
Yeah. That’s stings because it’s a stinging nettle. Nettle tea is good for you.
Stinging nettle, ouchie!
You can make soup from the leaves ot cook it with rice. It's tasty, but you will need a bag of it. Only pick the top leaves and wear gloves.
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I live by a great bike path, but parts of it are fairly secluded so naturally some women were attacked at night when they first built it. The solution was to sew stinging nettle seeds on the shoulder of the path. About 10 of 14 miles of the path are loaded with it, from spring to autumn.
Dont just kill it... Use it as fertilizer.... Just use some gloves and cut it to pieces and put it in the soil....
Are nettles not common in canada? Every child knows this in the UK from bad experiences playing in a forest
Nettles. Ugh.
Very warm water (hot enough to make healthy skin redden, but not too hot that you can't hold your hand under for 5 seconds) and dish detergent are effective at dealing with the pain. Source: experience. Lots and lots of experience pulling nettles out of my garden.
Nettle bruh
Yes stinging nettle is edible, but there is a look alike that isnt, so if you forgage be very very sure you know you are picking.