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Might be a stupid question. Are these nettles? Haha

NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
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I have sowed lots and lots of seeds in my new bed so I’ve been waiting for everything to grow before I start weeding so I know what’s what.   
So here’s were my stupid question starts haha. I’ve been away for a few days and come back to nettles everywhere. I’ve come to pick them out but there not stinging me haha.  Every year I get stung to death pulling nettles out.  I’ve even touched them on purpose and now I’m doubting myself even though I know they look just like nettles 😂

And please don’t be rude.  I know they quite obviously look like nettles. 


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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
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  • NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
    That ms my point pansyface I’ve touched them, Brushed past them. One of my kids sat in a patch whilst I had my back turned.  And nothing!! No one hasn’t been stung hahah
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    What did you sow? it might give us more of a clue
    AB Still learning

  • NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
    Im actually very surprised I still have the list. I thought Id binned it.    Apologies for how scruffy it is. Hope you can read it haha  

    there may have been some more since then but that was the first lot I put in the garden. (Not all went into This particular bed)
  • NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
    This bed is just for red and yellow flowers and a few whites if that helps 
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    They are definitely nettles. Pull them out now before the stings develop.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    fidgetbones said:
    They are definitely nettles. Pull them out now before the stings develop.
    Yes ... those are nettles ... I spent my childhood in fields, hedgerows and ditches ... definitely stinging nettles aka Urtica dioica.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Snip the new growth and make a tea with some sage leaves and mint. Lovely  :) You can dry out the spare tops and keep using them for tea for months. It also goes well with elderflower which will be along shortly and I like it with red clover flowers but that might not be to everyone's taste.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Steam them and add them to mashed potatoes = Nettle Champ 

    https://www.recipelion.com/Irish-Recipes/Irish-Nettle-Champ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NotyalcaNotyalca Posts: 134
    Great ideas!!
    I remember someone made nettle wine at university. That was some pretty potent stuff haha

    i have taken them all out now.   A first for me. I have never not been stung by a nettle before! 
    Even the tiniest used to get me. Maybe I’ve grown immune!
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