MrPin Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 The nettles round here do not sting! Why is that? I am now down west, but when I lived in Surrey, there were some right stingers! As all schoolchildren found out! How many types of nettles are there, and can you make wine out of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Probably not nettles, but just stuff that looks like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 The nettles round here do not sting! Why is that? I am now down west, but when I lived in Surrey, there were some right stingers! As all schoolchildren found out! How many types of nettles are there, and can you make wine out of them? The nettles wouldn't dare sting you, Mr P! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justthisbloke Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 We're a bit later in the year now. The first stingers of Spring have real bite. They get worn out by late Summer (or maybe people get "immune" to them). If you move between Spring and Summer that'd explain it. Or they're "dead nettles" and you should be sucking the nectar from their flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 The nettles round here do not sting! Why is that? I am now down west, but when I lived in Surrey, there were some right stingers! As all schoolchildren found out! How many types of nettles are there, and can you make wine out of them?Fen nettles Mr Pin?Never tried the wine but a bushcrafting chum did make me a bowl of nettle soup once with some nettles, a chicken stock cube and a potato. So it wasn't nettle soup really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Fen nettles Mr Pin? Never tried the wine but a bushcrafting chum did make me a bowl of nettle soup once with some nettles, a chicken stock cube and a potato. So it wasn't nettle soup really. Gardenersing is not the world of Pin! I have to keep it a bit tidy, to keep my neighbour sweet! It's amazing the "free food" you can get if you know where to look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Yes you can make nettle wine! Not to mention many other nice things: soup someone already mentioned; nettle tea is nice and easy-going. Some Cornish folks famously use them in a cheese called Yarg. Or - if you're not scared of it - you can eat them more directly either raw or cooked. They're best for most purposes[1] when tender in spring. April/May is ideal - same sort of season as the wild garlic. Though for wine I suspect the tougher beasties from later in the season would work. [1] Perhaps that's subjective. I haven't made anything nice from later-season nettles myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Yes you can make nettle wine! Not to mention many other nice things: soup someone already mentioned; nettle tea is nice and easy-going. Some Cornish folks famously use them in a cheese called Yarg. Or - if you're not scared of it - you can eat them more directly either raw or cooked. They're best for most purposes[1] when tender in spring. April/May is ideal - same sort of season as the wild garlic. Though for wine I suspect the tougher beasties from later in the season would work. [1] Perhaps that's subjective. I haven't made anything nice from later-season nettles myself. Nettles also vary in their stingyness depending on what they are growing in. I always found nettles on land that had cows on were nasty bastards - maybe there was something in cow poo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Nettle stew......free and it works. http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/planting/how-to-make-a-nettle-feed/220.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Nettles also vary in their stingyness depending on what they are growing in. I always found nettles on land that had cows on were nasty bastards - maybe there was something in cow poo? Something to do with the heavy soil churned up by the horribly-unnatural concentration of heavy animals in a confined space? What do you think of the ones that grow together with brambles? One more hazard, or a culinary complement to the blackberries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 The nettles wouldn't dare sting you, Mr P! They did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patfig Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 We're a bit later in the year now. The first stingers of Spring have real bite. They get worn out by late Summer (or maybe people get "immune" to them). If you move between Spring and Summer that'd explain it. Or they're "dead nettles" and you should be sucking the nectar from their flowers. Yes juts after a dog has p1ssed on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Yes juts after a dog has p1ssed on them Ah, the poor man's Sauvignon Blanc 'I'm getting apricots, damsons, nettles ... and p1ss' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patfig Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 I remember drinking that and it was like pee, not the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 They did! A rub with a dock leaf should sort it, take the sting away......they grow close to nettles for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 I remember drinking that and it was like pee, not the best TCP Tom Cats Pee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 A rub with a dock leaf should sort it, take the sting away......they grow close to nettles for a reason. Are you an old wife? Or have you appropriated someone else's tale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Are you an old wife? Or have you appropriated someone else's tale? Not old or a wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 You take the stem of nettles and rub it on the sting. Helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 13, 2014 Author Share Posted July 13, 2014 A rub with a dock leaf should sort it, take the sting away......they grow close to nettles for a reason. When I had a crap, at dad's allotment, I used them a bum-paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 You take the stem of nettles and rub it on the sting. Helps. I know have a mental image of John Nettles rubbing his stem on Sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 When I had a crap, at dad's allotment, I used them a bum-paper! What, nettles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 I know have a mental image of John Nettles rubbing his stem on Sting. You have a more fertile (pun) imagination than I! We have stacks of the buggers (I'm talking about the nettles) here. Got stung the other day getting into the car. But then if I could be arsed to do some gardening, that probably wouldn't have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 The nettles round here do not sting! Why is that? You are drunk and numb to pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1929crash Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I remember drinking that and it was like pee, not the best How would you know to make a comparison? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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