What Is Stinging Nettle

The best time to harvest nettles is the first few weeks of spring when the leaves are young and tender. It's no wonder since stinging nettle greens are loaded with antioxidants as well as lutein, lycopene and iron.

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It was a never-ending and tedious job. No matter what weed cloth I used, no matter how thick the mulch I applied, I still had weeds... It will take some time, but in the meantime my good weeds will be working away in my garden, building highways for nutrients...

If using a towel, be careful not to rub too hard, as you might push the bristles further into your skin or spread them to other parts of your body.Apply an anti-inflammatory cream like hydrocortisone to the sting.

I therefore provided a layer of dead leaves, bark and twigs in the bottom of the jar.At about the end of September they completed their caterpillar phase and both weaved a cocoon, incorporating the hairs from their final caterpillar stage and in this...

Nettles are high in minerals, iron most notably, and are well-known in building the condition of the blood. While there are only a few visual differences between fen nettle and the stinging variety, there is a more marked difference under the microscope.

Read on to learn more about burning nettle plants.) grows in various areas across the Eastern, Central and Western United States. What is burning nettle, and what does burning nettle look like?

For lunch, I heated a few tablespoons of olive oil and sauteed two teaspoons of minced garlic, then added a colander half full of rinsed stinging nettle shoots. (However, the weeds are doing just fine!) Cold frames and a cute greenhouse for year-round...

Many vegetarians prefer to use vegetable rennet in their cheese. Add enough water to just cover the nettles. Vegetable rennet is fairly easy to harvest from the right source. Rennet is added to milk to make cheese.

When I was a kid this weed was sometimes a problem when I was tramping around in the woods in shorts, because it can really sting and my legs would often become bloody from so many nettle stings.

Crown Imperial bulbs are large--about the size of a softball. Plant any variety of squash and allow the vines to run on the ground instead of up a pole or trellis. They are highly irritating to human skin.Although skunks may eat ripe summer squash if...

Sarsaparilla is commonly used in root beer to create the sharp, sweet taste associated with the drink.Sarsaparilla is a type of herb native to parts of Central and South America. The female body also produces testosterone, but not as much.

Not All Bees Can Sting You may know by now that honeybee queens do not use their stingers like workers do; the honeybee virgin queen uses her stinger once, and only once, to eliminate the competition of other potential queens immediately after she hatches.

Understanding the weed species that are most prevalent on your farm will also help you assess the best approach for management. Before choosing grazing goats, assess the types of weeds you have.

Aren't we happiest when we're comfortable in our own skin, busy doing the things we love and doing them in a way that reflects our values? As a poet, she left behind much wisdom we can apply to our day-to-day lives, but today, as I was reading about her...

The researchers used sophisticated extraction techniques to obtain purified amounts of piperideine and piperidine from the venom glands of both red and black imported fire ants, which are considered invasive pests and a dominant species on more than 320...

Enthusiasm is contagious. On paper, there aren't enough hours in the day to make this happen—they all work full-time jobs and have full-time lives on top of their diligent work—yet the work gets done and they always have smiles on their faces.

A layer of straw, chicken-coop litter, leaf debris, kitchen compost or half-finished compost also works just fine. Untreated, unpainted, raw wood left over from building or construction projects may be incorporated into a huegelkultur.

As I headed out to my car Monday morning, head ducked against the wind, coffee mug trembling in my shivering, gloved hand, the realization that I had to scrape a thick layer of ice and snow off of my windshield in the subzero wind chill was extraordinarily...

So lower potencies like 6x to 30x or 6c to 30c are usually recommended, especially for do-it-yourselfers. Do-it-yourselfers can use homeopathic remedies to treat minor ailments and injuries, for first-aid emergencies until the vet arrives, and to augment...

Cats, dogs and horses are all sensitive to winterberry toxicity. Children are particularly susceptible to adverse effects. Despite the beauty of its tempting fruit, eating winterberries should be avoided -- especially by children.

I've been chastised in the past for having my head in the clouds instead of focused on the here and now, but I take Gloria Steinem's above quote to heart: dreaming really is a form of planning.

New To You, But Not So New It turns out that ashitaba isn't all that “new” to America. Angelica's Cousin Ashitaba, Angelica keiskei koidzumi is Japanese for “tomorrow's leaf,” and it's called this because it is such a fast grower that it can grow...

If you have fresh mamaki available, these leaves makes the best tea. Dried leaves are typically sold at drug stores and specialty stores in Hawaii.Place 6 fresh or dried leaves of mamaki into a teapot or teacup for each cup that you want to make.Boil...

However, identifying immature insect nymphs can be a challenge for gardeners, as the nymphs of many pest and beneficial species share little to no resemblance with their adult forms.

Nutrients that are required, but needed in less abundance, include iron, zinc, magnesium, copper, molybdenum, manganese, chlorine and boron. Although there are many varieties of citrus trees, their needs are about the same: nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium,...

Be very leery of any early spring digging, especially if you live in a northern climate. Determining if soil is frozen can make all the difference.How do you know if the ground is frozen solid?