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RE: Plant Walk #5: Grindelia, Stinging Nettle, Bristlecone Pine, Quaking Aspen
I love these posts of yours and I am a big lover of nettles, they are hard to find where i am at the moment but I have managed to grow a small batch the last couple of years, I just love nettle pesto and nettle tea xx
I have nettles growing in my potato patch at the moment, J. transplanted some there! Bit worried about them spreading though. I do love nettle tea too @ofsedgeandsalt, was raised on it - dried, shop bought organic stuff though - not fresh. In England I used to dry it myself, but hard to come by here.
I never heard of it until I worked on an organic farm in New Hampshire. It was one of the first 'herbs' I learned. Not a hard one to forget. I bet in England it is everywhere....
oh yeah! growing them. I've planted them too much to my dad's dismay at his farm.... He was like- why on earth would you plant something that stings you. But, now he just accepts it. :)