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Help! Am I growing stinging nettles!?
Bizarre one this...last year I bought a small blackberry and raspberry bush. They both grew very well but as first season (I think correctly) they didn't bare any fruit...
However, this year, the raspberry bush is growing well, upto approx 3 feet so far but my blackberry bush looks very much like stinging nettles??? Is this right or has a wondering bird deposited some seed for me?!
Help very welcome
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Do you have a picture?
You could stick your hand in them and see if they sting rather than just prickle you
That would be conclusive wouldn't it Fleurisa
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think simply googling picture of stinging nettles would be slightly less painful
Post a picture we'll be able to tell you better!
They definitely prickle!
2 minutes and I will add a photo
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Nettles.
Looks like nettles to me unfortunately.
Very healthy ones mark you!
Poo - I thought so...
So where/how has this happened? IE where has the blackberry bush gone?
Also - is it worth keeping ?