I have watched many , many of your videos and i dont normally leave comments but i cant go any longer, You are a true inspiration to me and i thank you for that! You and Sam Thayer are my two all time favorite wild food experts!! Thank you soooo much for your time and knowledge!
@Fastflyingpigs You can make nettle tea almost any times. As for the seeds, wait until the plant gives them up easily, re fall in your hand but before snow!) .
Thanks again Deane. We in Ohio have the tall stinging nettles that are all along The Mad river and other rivers around here. I am constantly getting 'HIT' by these 'bad boy's'. They do NOT PLAY around and will teach you quick what to avoid. WOW! I suspect that Baking Soda will work to nullify their terror. Thanks for that tip. I heard that 'Dock' also works. This is something that every outdoorsman should know. Thanks for all you do. Love the time you spend with your fellow man. Me included lol
I had my first sting today. it's growing all over my yard and took me doing research to find out what it is. I read about stinging nettle many years ago, but had no idea it was here. I'm in pasco county. I've found that white vinegar has helped the most. I think a poultice made of onion would help too. I made a paste of baking soda and water, but the water in it made things worse. so what I did after that was poured white vinegar over my finger, then sprinkled baking soda on. good relief
I "grabbed" a cluster and rolled into a paper towel, then used a rolling pin to crush them. Very tasty. TRUE STORY: I tripped and fell into a patch years ago, and it cannot be forgotten. Great to know I can eat these painful rascals! Best to all! Mr Brown
Great! If I remember correctly a misplaced decimal point in a 1930's publication got spinach the reputation of being nutritious. Nettles are far more nutritious than spinach.
I make stinging nettle pie... like spinach pie just substitute the nettles. Delicious and nutritious. Nettles grow in my woods where it can be fairly dry. The sting usually only bothers me for about 30 minutes but I have a dark complexion with oily skin. You can freeze or dry nettles for use over the year.
@bluesdog88 There are people who put Urticas into smoothies all the time. The quality of the sting varies and the "dead nettle" is actually a different species. Just don't confuse a Cnidoscolus with an Urtica. They look very different but some folks have confused them. The latter has hand shaped leaves.
My first conflict with nettles was as a 13 year old helping my dad bale hay on the neighbors land. It was quite hot and I had no shirt on. I opened a gate so dad could drive through, and backed right into a long row of nettles. Sweating seems to help the nettle sting more.I dropped right to the ground instantly. But I finally found out what my dad was grinning at as I opened that gate while walking backwards
@germanicelt That is why we study plants, to recognize them at different stages of growth. Generally said no, they don't grow back. You harvest young and tender. They usually sow themselves.
Many plants have formic acid, like the fire ants do. The C. stimulosus has that. What I wonder is if they would have some application in Fibromyalgia as bee stings sometimes help.
this is a wonderful video. I'm glad to have found you. I love nettles. I harvest hundreds of them yearly. I pull them up by the bottom of the stem, drop them in a pile, then hang them upside down in my kitchen. After they are dry, sometimes I get stung, but rarely. I fill glass jars with them. Then throughout the year I put handfuls in soups and stirfrys. Do they really have 1000X as much vitamins as spinach?
Thanks Dean, we use to get in the nettle all the time when we were kids ,luckly you can always find a dock leaf near by in England. Makes a nice soup too.Hoping to come down to one of your walks this year.
Yes they can be frozen. If frozen without cooking the needles can still sting you. If you blanch them first, which also improve their condition for freezing, the needles won't bother you.
We have the tall ones here. They love it down by the edge of the river, and under the overpass. I just harvested the seeds, which as you know are also medicinal. Great videos! I'm so impressed and I also bookmarked your site. :)
I had the luck of going to school up in the hills away from the city smog, but in the spring our dear hills were COVERED in stinging in nettles. There was always one kid who would try to brave the vibrant green carpet of nettles while wearing shorts and stagger back wailing. And these were California nettles, the weaklings of the bunch!
If you mean Salsola kali I recently found some at the beach. I think there will be a video on them, as I stretch the season and try to get to 100. The young growing tips are edible and shoots.
Goats eat nettles as is. Other grazers will eat them after they wilt. As for handling it. Start at the very bottom just under the grass line, break the stem then roughly push up the stem breaking the needles. The needles are perpendicular to the stem. If you push up the stem you can break the needles at the base before they sting you.
There are quite a few, several come to mind, Satureja douglasii, the Manzanita Bush, roses, rosemary, dandelion blossom tea. You might want to look up "feral Kevin" he has a web site and is based in California.
The sting is uric acid. My grandpa takes stinging nettles and hits them against his back to encourage circulation.. LOL, he is one tough cookie. I think our stinging nettles in Colorado are less intense than the one's you've touched, I never had them hurt me for more than a day..
@ForcedAgenda The Heart Leaf Nettle is certainly the dominant urtica in Florida. Birds, including chickens, can eat many things that bother us but not them. One reason why you cannot eat all the things that brids eat.
Juicing should get rid of the stingers... should. Some folks say if you get stung in the mouth while eating a nettle the discomfort goes away in about 30 seconds... that may be true, but I don't want to find out IF it is true.
It is the 19th day of spring in Australia and most of the nettles already have flower pods starting.Can I still harvest to eat or do I have to wait until autumn?
Great video. I think your nettles look quite cute! Over here in the UK, they often grow to over four feet high, and grow over large areas. Not much fun to walk through, but a lot easier to make cordage from.
I think raw food advocate David Wolfe also says that too... I don't know about his nettles but my local ones hurt like a bad bee sting and continue to hurt for days if not treated. It is one weed I eat for revenge.....
That's exactly what happened to me. I grew up where nettles had long leaves and were quite tall. I wasn't suspecting anything when I reached for this plant.
It reportedly grows in a couple of northern counties and in Volusia county. I've never seen it in Florida. If it grows in those area I suspect it escaped from cemetaries. It is not native. Thus far only time works the best at getting rid of the nettle sting for me.
I ran into a field of head high nettles in the dark playing war game simulations as a kid, of course, no one followed me, lol. Had a twenty mile hike home the next day, wonderful.
I heard they are good for promoting blood circulation/preventing hair loss, just rub those stings on your scalp. I think they are also astringent so they could help to clot blood when your wounded.
Edible nettles are edible nettles. England has some famous edible nettles. If you do a google search for ray mears and nettles you should get something relevant to area. I have some DVDs with him using nettles.
i know here in California ive only seen it in the mountains along the cost though ive heard it grows in the foothills of the sierras i guess the leaf trick works with certain types because back when i was in scouts they said to do that and it worked for me though the little bumps it gave me itched for a week before going away
@ptboy4 It also depends on what species of nettle you have. Our local nettle in among the worse on the planet for stinging. The sting is severe, like a hornet sting, and lasts for days.
I run the washing machine drainage to the ground rather than the septic tank and acidently discovered nettles love that area. Hundreds of them. I will try cooking them.
Hello Green Deane, I to live here in Florida. Are these the same Stinging Nettles that have the white flowers on the tops? Because the ones you showed here I did not see the white flower. Thank you
Someone young might cry, yes. Some nettles are mild, some in other countries are very strong. This one feels like a bee sting that doesn't go away for a long time.
This is the weed that some “friends” of mine would jump out from outta no where n slam a brother on his chest w a bouquet of stinging nettles😂😂😂 LIVE FROM “Surfside” Vilano beach FL RRRrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh😂 Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for the chuckle!
Also, just wanted to say hi and thanks to you and let everyone know our little remedy us pacific northwesters use to aid the nettle bites, and its very simple, just rub a little dirt or mud and it mostly go's away within seconds. Works great here! Just thought I would check into nettle tea as we could all use an immunity booster with the recent outbreaks, maybe I am onto something? We also have devil's clubs and man do those bite hard! I will def try the pee method next time get stung by one!
There are three to four dozen species, depending on who is doing the counting. As for size, small does seem to be worse except in India where they have huge ones that are said to be quite debilitating.
You can use grass on nettle stings.. you just have to roll and squish it so the liquid comes out. There are other better alternatives but grass is everywhere and those alternatives sometimes arent
It does look like a mint, and I probably would have done exactly what you said and reached down and picked a leaf without thinking anything bad could happen. Now if I see a plant that might be a mint that resembles this one, I will take my time and study it from a distance first and probably avoid contact.
It may be good, but it ain't fun. I tend to not be allergic to things and the local nettle sting is quite painful for about three days. Hot water was particularly irritating. If I were to use nettles for the sting I would pick a body place one doesn't use much or sleep on. Stings on your hands are a constant source of irritation. If I remember correctly it is formic acid and a few other things in the needles.
Hey GreenDeane, I was making some nettle tea the other day and I stumbled upon two plants which looked very similar to the stinging nettle. The one plant looked exactly like it except the leaves were much wider instead of the typical blade-like leaf. The other plant looked less similar as the leaves were grouped in threes and had thorns on it in addition to the stinging hairs. Just wondered if you might know what the were. Thanks a lot, have a great day!
Howdy My name is Doug. I really enjoyed your video about Stining Nettle. I think I have some in my garden. I touched it last week and it stung me bad. Do you know where I can get some seeds for it. I am just getting into eating and drinking weeds now and I find I have some right in my gardens. What are the benefits of eating this one. Let me know and thanks Doug in Calif...
Hey there! I am enjoying starting to watch your videos and plan to check them all out. Just wondering your location? Florida? I am in Skagit Valley, WA where it rains 90% of the year and the nettles grow by the acre and have seen them over 9 feet tall. Just wondering how many variations of the Nettle exist where you are. It seems the smaller they are the stingier they are haha.
@purity4all A lot of things are callled "thistles." Without a more specific plant I could not comment on edibility. Do you mean sow thistles, milk thistles, bull thistles, et cetera?
They really don't know what all of the chemical are but acid is among them and they do seem to resemble a bee sting, so there may be some medicinal uses. While some plants have the mechanical means to do that I don't think the nettle does. However, it could be a systemic reaction or allergy.
I don't really know how much rain we get really but I wear flip flops during the summer and seem to always get into this stuff. I always get it across the top of my toes. Ow! Ow! Ow!
I am really hoping to find nettles on our property this year. Strangely enough I've never touched a plant that felt like stinging. The specimens in your video sort of remind me of how Lemon Balm grows. What is the possibility I will find nettles in maritime Quebec? We have Jewelweed near the forest edge, along with buttercups, choke cherries and red raspberries. Where would I find nettles? Near a dry area or a bog area? In an open sunny area or in more shady parts?
Thank you. I once watched some video and they were showing a lookalike plant. I went out to look closely and found that my chickens ate them all. The plants never came back.
@chickenbonewatt The conflict is probably that some members of the family and realted species are edible, and others are not. Solenostenmon ocymoides has edible parts, as does the solenostemon rotundifolius and Coleus dystenterieus. Some are not toxic but just plain taste bad.
Ive been sort of traumatized since my first sting as a kid. Anytime in nature I usually avoid any plant because i didnt pay attention to what it looked like. I just had my second sting recently exploring behind my apartment. I learned the benefits while searching for a cure. I didnt know there were several types still having trouble identifying. if I was brave I would touch test. Also Im so scared I wont boil it right and too afraid to try I still really want to try.
I keep a jar of pickle juice just for the stinging nettles. I know it's vinegar , but for some reason just white vinegar didn't work as well as the pickle juice. I guess the salt helps .
Well I have been told to pee on my foot..........but I have just dealt with the sting. I told my family around here that you can eat this stuff and they were amazed!
Thank you mr. Green you have saved my sanity
Thanks so much for this episode! Baking soda! Could have saved so many miserable days as I tend to be attracted to the stuff.
If I get stung by nettles, I rub dock leaves on it ...works well and there always seem to be docks growing near nettles.
Thank you.........I have found you videos very interesting and educational.
I have watched many , many of your videos and i dont normally leave comments but i cant go any longer, You are a true inspiration to me and i thank you for that! You and Sam Thayer are my two all time favorite wild food experts!! Thank you soooo much for your time and knowledge!
@Fastflyingpigs You can make nettle tea almost any times. As for the seeds, wait until the plant gives them up easily, re fall in your hand but before snow!) .
Thanks again Deane. We in Ohio have the tall stinging nettles that are all along The Mad river and other rivers around here. I am constantly getting 'HIT' by these 'bad boy's'. They do NOT PLAY around and will teach you quick what to avoid. WOW! I suspect that Baking Soda will work to nullify their terror. Thanks for that tip. I heard that 'Dock' also works. This is something that every outdoorsman should know. Thanks for all you do. Love the time you spend with your fellow man. Me included lol
@EatTheWeeds Thank you for the response, sir!! I will have to figure out what I have. Absolutely love the videos, website and newsletter!!
I had my first sting today. it's growing all over my yard and took me doing research to find out what it is. I read about stinging nettle many years ago, but had no idea it was here. I'm in pasco county. I've found that white vinegar has helped the most. I think a poultice made of onion would help too. I made a paste of baking soda and water, but the water in it made things worse. so what I did after that was poured white vinegar over my finger, then sprinkled baking soda on. good relief
I "grabbed" a cluster and rolled into a paper towel,
then used a rolling pin to crush them.
Very tasty.
TRUE STORY:
I tripped and fell into a patch years ago, and
it cannot be forgotten.
Great to know I can eat these painful rascals!
Best to all!
Mr Brown
Excellent video, now I can actually recognize the famous stinging nettle, thank you very much
Great! If I remember correctly a misplaced decimal point in a 1930's publication got spinach the reputation of being nutritious. Nettles are far more nutritious than spinach.
i just met stinging nettles last fall and since then I have made cake, pizza and beer!!
Thanks... nettles are a great tradition in your area.
I make stinging nettle pie... like spinach pie just substitute the nettles. Delicious and nutritious. Nettles grow in my woods where it can be fairly dry. The sting usually only bothers me for about 30 minutes but I have a dark complexion with oily skin. You can freeze or dry nettles for use over the year.
Thanks... as for the juice... it's never done much for me but that doesn't mean I'm not going to stop trying...
Thanks for YOUR information am in Canada am goings to see if I find some we have lot in the Caribbean
once again, an impressive video, i have passed this on to several friends and family members
@bluesdog88 There are people who put Urticas into smoothies all the time. The quality of the sting varies and the "dead nettle" is actually a different species. Just don't confuse a Cnidoscolus with an Urtica. They look very different but some folks have confused them. The latter has hand shaped leaves.
My first conflict with nettles was as a 13 year old helping my dad bale hay on the neighbors land. It was quite hot and I had no shirt on. I opened a gate so dad could drive through, and backed right into a long row of nettles. Sweating seems to help the nettle sting more.I dropped right to the ground instantly. But I finally found out what my dad was grinning at as I opened that gate while walking backwards
MrMrwilson11 If you rub your stings with the Nettles it will take away the sting right away.
Crystal Weir-Heineman Do not work for me at all. Make it very worse. Nothing gets rid of the nettle sting for me except a lot of time, days in fact.
@EatTheWeeds So , being in the same family as Hemp, they are also an annual plant.
Green Dean you are adorable - thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! :-)
@germanicelt That is why we study plants, to recognize them at different stages of growth. Generally said no, they don't grow back. You harvest young and tender. They usually sow themselves.
Many plants have formic acid, like the fire ants do. The C. stimulosus has that. What I wonder is if they would have some application in Fibromyalgia as bee stings sometimes help.
this is a wonderful video. I'm glad to have found you. I love nettles. I harvest hundreds of them yearly. I pull them up by the bottom of the stem, drop them in a pile, then hang them upside down in my kitchen.
After they are dry, sometimes I get stung, but rarely. I fill glass jars with them. Then throughout the year I put handfuls in soups and stirfrys.
Do they really have 1000X as much vitamins as spinach?
Thanks Dean, we use to get in the nettle all the time when we were kids ,luckly you can always find a dock leaf near by in England. Makes a nice soup too.Hoping to come down to one of your walks this year.
@EatTheWeeds here the burdock grows next to the nettle or at least in the same soils nearby.
thanks
Yes they can be frozen. If frozen without cooking the needles can still sting you. If you blanch them first, which also improve their condition for freezing, the needles won't bother you.
We have the tall ones here. They love it down by the edge of the river, and under the overpass. I just harvested the seeds, which as you know are also medicinal. Great videos! I'm so impressed and I also bookmarked your site. :)
There is a tip out there, the harder you grasp them the less you will get stung. Also, they make for great beer =)
I had the luck of going to school up in the hills away from the city smog, but in the spring our dear hills were COVERED in stinging in nettles. There was always one kid who would try to brave the vibrant green carpet of nettles while wearing shorts and stagger back wailing. And these were California nettles, the weaklings of the bunch!
If you mean Salsola kali I recently found some at the beach. I think there will be a video on them, as I stretch the season and try to get to 100. The young growing tips are edible and shoots.
Goats eat nettles as is. Other grazers will eat them after they wilt. As for handling it. Start at the very bottom just under the grass line, break the stem then roughly push up the stem breaking the needles. The needles are perpendicular to the stem. If you push up the stem you can break the needles at the base before they sting you.
Love the videos btw. Very informative! :)
There are quite a few, several come to mind, Satureja douglasii, the Manzanita Bush, roses, rosemary, dandelion blossom tea. You might want to look up "feral Kevin" he has a web site and is based in California.
The sting is uric acid. My grandpa takes stinging nettles and hits them against his back to encourage circulation.. LOL, he is one tough cookie. I think our stinging nettles in Colorado are less intense than the one's you've touched, I never had them hurt me for more than a day..
@ForcedAgenda The Heart Leaf Nettle is certainly the dominant urtica in Florida. Birds, including chickens, can eat many things that bother us but not them. One reason why you cannot eat all the things that brids eat.
this was quite informative! thank you
Good! Just make sure you're sure of what's in your yard before consuming.
thank you, I never thought about using tongs! x
I cut mine in gloves and race to a buttery skillet for a great breakfast. Thanks so much Sir Deane.
Juicing should get rid of the stingers... should. Some folks say if you get stung in the mouth while eating a nettle the discomfort goes away in about 30 seconds... that may be true, but I don't want to find out IF it is true.
It is the 19th day of spring in Australia and most of the nettles already have flower pods starting.Can I still harvest to eat or do I have to wait until autumn?
@EatTheWeeds Yeah up here in Western Canada theyre not bad, Ive picked them with bare hands many times.
Great video! Thanks Dean!
Great video.
I think your nettles look quite cute! Over here in the UK, they often grow to over four feet high, and grow over large areas. Not much fun to walk through, but a lot easier to make cordage from.
@macadoodle15 Nettles can vary greatly in shape and size, which is why one has to check out the local species.
I think raw food advocate David Wolfe also says that too... I don't know about his nettles but my local ones hurt like a bad bee sting and continue to hurt for days if not treated. It is one weed I eat for revenge.....
@Lester284L Leaves of three with spines on the stem and under the leaf is a blackberry. The other might be a "false" bog nettle, not an edible.
That's exactly what happened to me. I grew up where nettles had long leaves and were quite tall. I wasn't suspecting anything when I reached for this plant.
It reportedly grows in a couple of northern counties and in Volusia county. I've never seen it in Florida. If it grows in those area I suspect it escaped from cemetaries. It is not native. Thus far only time works the best at getting rid of the nettle sting for me.
hello Green Deane do you have a video on what mushrooms are safe in Jacksonville FL area
surprised you mentioned Ray Mears. That guys awesome.
I ran into a field of head high nettles in the dark playing war game simulations as a kid, of course, no one followed me, lol. Had a twenty mile hike home the next day, wonderful.
Those must be different nettles than in the Northwest, the ones here don't have stingers on top, just on the stem, branch and underside of the leaf.
shadfurman oh and the remedies I've always heard (but never found super effective) are bracken fern juice or banana slug slime. :-)
I heard they are good for promoting blood circulation/preventing hair loss, just rub those stings on your scalp. I think they are also astringent so they could help to clot blood when your wounded.
Great Video! Wish I could find them here in SoCal.
That's the son of a gunest thing, being able to eat something that will sting the heck out of you! Lol "Come and get it, if you dare!" x D
@chunfu2 Wrong season, too could. Wait for spring.
Edible nettles are edible nettles. England has some famous edible nettles. If you do a google search for ray mears and nettles you should get something relevant to area. I have some DVDs with him using nettles.
@EatTheWeeds to summer ....you know-year round hiker!
i know here in California ive only seen it in the mountains along the cost though ive heard it grows in the foothills of the sierras i guess the leaf trick works with certain types because back when i was in scouts they said to do that and it worked for me though the little bumps it gave me itched for a week before going away
@Dufus02 If you live where there is burdock.
@ptboy4 It also depends on what species of nettle you have. Our local nettle in among the worse on the planet for stinging. The sting is severe, like a hornet sting, and lasts for days.
Thanks
@purity4all Those are bull thistles, or Cirsium horridulum
I run the washing machine drainage to the ground rather than the septic tank and acidently discovered nettles love that area. Hundreds of them. I will try cooking them.
Hello Green Deane, I to live here in Florida. Are these the same Stinging Nettles that have the white flowers on the tops? Because the ones you showed here I did not see the white flower. Thank you
The juice from crushing the nettles stem, takes away the sting.
Someone young might cry, yes. Some nettles are mild, some in other countries are very strong. This one feels like a bee sting that doesn't go away for a long time.
This is the weed that some “friends” of mine would jump out from outta no where n slam a brother on his chest w a bouquet of stinging nettles😂😂😂 LIVE FROM “Surfside” Vilano beach FL RRRrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh😂
Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for the chuckle!
Also, just wanted to say hi and thanks to you and let everyone know our little remedy us pacific northwesters use to aid the nettle bites, and its very simple, just rub a little dirt or mud and it mostly go's away within seconds. Works great here! Just thought I would check into nettle tea as we could all use an immunity booster with the recent outbreaks, maybe I am onto something? We also have devil's clubs and man do those bite hard! I will def try the pee method next time get stung by one!
There are three to four dozen species, depending on who is doing the counting. As for size, small does seem to be worse except in India where they have huge ones that are said to be quite debilitating.
Sounds delicious. Nettles can vary greatly in their sting, from mild to near-death ones in India. Eat the weeds is the solution.
What variety if stinging nettles is so potent in India?
just picked some today! gonna try this out
You can use grass on nettle stings.. you just have to roll and squish it so the liquid comes out. There are other better alternatives but grass is everywhere and those alternatives sometimes arent
It does look like a mint, and I probably would have done exactly what you said and reached down and picked a leaf without thinking anything bad could happen.
Now if I see a plant that might be a mint that resembles this one, I will take my time and study it from a distance first and probably avoid contact.
Absolutely as long as it is an Urtica and the parts you juice are from above ground.
Only the dwarf nettle grows here, but there are other plants that are good for fiber and cordage.
It may be good, but it ain't fun. I tend to not be allergic to things and the local nettle sting is quite painful for about three days. Hot water was particularly irritating. If I were to use nettles for the sting I would pick a body place one doesn't use much or sleep on. Stings on your hands are a constant source of irritation. If I remember correctly it is formic acid and a few other things in the needles.
Hey GreenDeane, I was making some nettle tea the other day and I stumbled upon two plants which looked very similar to the stinging nettle. The one plant looked exactly like it except the leaves were much wider instead of the typical blade-like leaf. The other plant looked less similar as the leaves were grouped in threes and had thorns on it in addition to the stinging hairs. Just wondered if you might know what the were. Thanks a lot, have a great day!
Howdy My name is Doug. I really enjoyed your video about Stining Nettle. I think I have some in my garden. I touched it last week and it stung me bad. Do you know where I can get some seeds for it. I am just getting into eating and drinking weeds now and I find I have some right in my gardens. What are the benefits of eating this one. Let me know and thanks Doug in Calif...
@snipesnrifles Never... on the trail I have run into only one rattlesnake in some 30 plus years.
Are the flowers edible? It would be easier just to throw the whole thing in the pot! Thank You.
I cook them flowers and all and add a little bit of ginger to the water. Drink the water or add it to soup
Hey there! I am enjoying starting to watch your videos and plan to check them all out. Just wondering your location? Florida? I am in Skagit Valley, WA where it rains 90% of the year and the nettles grow by the acre and have seen them over 9 feet tall. Just wondering how many variations of the Nettle exist where you are. It seems the smaller they are the stingier they are haha.
@iandstanley Dock may work but it was not around when I got bit.
@purity4all A lot of things are callled "thistles." Without a more specific plant I could not comment on edibility. Do you mean sow thistles, milk thistles, bull thistles, et cetera?
@EatTheWeeds Where?? i am a 100% native Hong hongner and i can't find it anywhere-in fact i know every single hiking trail in HK but i can;t find any!
They really don't know what all of the chemical are but acid is among them and they do seem to resemble a bee sting, so there may be some medicinal uses. While some plants have the mechanical means to do that I don't think the nettle does. However, it could be a systemic reaction or allergy.
I don't really know how much rain we get really but I wear flip flops during the summer and seem to always get into this stuff. I always get it across the top of my toes. Ow! Ow! Ow!
@Lester284L Young stems are edible.
Do have pics of them with the flowers? I have Nettles in my yard that has white petaled flowers.
I am really hoping to find nettles on our property this year. Strangely enough I've never touched a plant that felt like stinging. The specimens in your video sort of remind me of how Lemon Balm grows. What is the possibility I will find nettles in maritime Quebec? We have Jewelweed near the forest edge, along with buttercups, choke cherries and red raspberries. Where would I find nettles? Near a dry area or a bog area? In an open sunny area or in more shady parts?
Thank you. I once watched some video and they were showing a lookalike plant. I went out to look closely and found that my chickens ate them all. The plants never came back.
Young and tender is always a good rule with wild greens.
@chickenbonewatt The conflict is probably that some members of the family and realted species are edible, and others are not. Solenostenmon ocymoides has edible parts, as does the solenostemon rotundifolius and Coleus dystenterieus. Some are not toxic but just plain taste bad.
great video
i live in southern California i love nettles,they are so delicious, don't eat large ones, they are extremely bitter...
Ive been sort of traumatized since my first sting as a kid. Anytime in nature I usually avoid any plant because i didnt pay attention to what it looked like. I just had my second sting recently exploring behind my apartment. I learned the benefits while searching for a cure. I didnt know there were several types still having trouble identifying. if I was brave I would touch test. Also Im so scared I wont boil it right and too afraid to try I still really want to try.
Thanks....I have two videos involving sow thistles and one about the bull thistle. On my website there is an index by date of the You Tube videos.
Awesome, although maybe you could spend some more time talking about the cordage aspects of the stinging nettle.
I keep a jar of pickle juice just for the stinging nettles. I know it's vinegar , but for some reason just white vinegar didn't work as well as the pickle juice. I guess the salt helps
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Well I have been told to pee on my foot..........but I have just dealt with the sting. I told my family around here that you can eat this stuff and they were amazed!