~ NOW.....EATING NETTLES ! ~ My revenge, at last....!! ~

[Hattie the Hen]

As many of you already know I have a continuing running battle with stinging nettles in my garden & I am fed up with people shaking their heads sorrowfully at me & making remarks like "well you can tell your soil must be good" etc. I am now officially growing them............
SO THERE !!! All because I have found these recipes....................... look!>>>:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/02/nigel-slater-nettle-wild-garlic-recipes

Actually there are other edible weed suggestions in there too.


I reckon if I use the tops & chop the plant back so they regrow, I should be able to get several harvest a year............

Now should this treatment eventually kill them off I can easily move to another patch -- no problem..........!!
If you have any more nettle recipes please add them below as I think I might need them.......!!

Happy Hattie

 

[Ladyhawke1]

You crack me up!

 

[kcsunshine]

Hattie - not only are they good for you, but I've read they are great for your chickens, giving them richer darker yolks. And, cows that eat them will give more milk.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi kcsunshine,

It's funny my hens never touch them but my cockerels do. I wonder why it is that way round? They both free-range !!!

I have often eaten nettle soup, esp. in Spring but I didn't know that about cows giving more milk after eating them.

Thanks for the info.


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[seedcorn]

Hattie, if I wore a cap, it would be off to you. I read the article, I'm too much of a sissy to even pick the stuff. As close as I get is a hoe or 2-4D spray. It had better have fruit if I'm to get stuck to gather it to eat........

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi Seedcorn,

You would be surprised how well it eats. Tread carefully (& wear gloves..... ), it is really easy to collect. Part of the joy & satisfaction of food is the hunt & the labour.........that changes ones attitude to enjoyment. It is only too easy too easy to keep ones distance......!

Happy Gardening, everyone!



Hattie

 

[seedcorn]

Hi Seedcorn,

You would be surprised how well it eats. Tread carefully (& wear gloves..... ), it is really easy to collect. Part of the joy & satisfaction of food is the hunt & the labour.........that changes ones attitude to enjoyment. It is only too easy too easy to keep ones distance......!

Happy Gardening, everyone!



Hattie

that I know as I've "collected" it many times......good eating. I'll stick w/getting revenge my way.....KILL IT.

 

[Rosalind]

I've also read that you can make them into fiber, a bit like hemp or flax.

Seedcorn, I have lovely dreams of the day that someone invents a car that runs on Japanese knotweed, ground ivy/creeping charlie, poison ivy and Asian bittersweet. My undergrad adviser used to fantasize about discovering some medicinal or hallucinogenic property of knotweed, just so that it would be hunted to death by pharmaceutical companies and hippies. It is supposedly edible--I've tried it, the young shoots sauteed in garlic butter, but it tastes very much like a shredded handkerchief owned by someone with a bad head cold.

Anyway, nettles: Supposedly nettle tea is good for your hair. DH has a shampoo with nettles in, and, well...let's just say that it certainly does not encourage hair growth, whatever anyone else may say. But my grey was a wee bit less noticeable when I used shampoo made of sage, rosemary & nettles boiled as tea, then mixed with castile soap and pectin to jell. I switched to a citrus type a couple months ago, and it's back to OMG I AM OLD every time I look in the mirror.

 

[seedcorn]

Hattie needs to find recipes for crab grass. Then find people who will come to my yard and gather it. Come on Hattie, I have faith in you.......