"Jan Flora" <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <48152ac5$0$20180$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Evelyn Ruut" <evelyn.ruut@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> My neighbor just brought me a whole bunch of stinging nettle plants.
We
>> are
>> going to plant them in the hopes of starting up a nice patch (wearing
>> gloves, of course). It is good for arthritis and so many other
things,
>> and
>> they also say it is tasty as a spinach type vegetable if picked very
>> early.
>
> When you get stung, rub a sour dock leaf on the sting and it'll quit
> hurting. In the wild, the two plants tend to grow near each other.
> Another one that will neutralize the sting is a yellow jewelweed that
> grows here, but I'd have to find my Scofield book to give you the exact
> plant name.
>
> Steam the young stinging nettles to eat them. They're way better than
> spinach!
>
> Jan
Hi Jan,
It is probably a long way until I get anything worth harvesting. Only
just
put a few baby sprigs into the ground just now.
Thanks so much for the tip about cooking and also in dealing with the
sting,
but I think it is too late now, since it was a couple of days ago that I
got
the sting. Apparently I am very sensitive to it, because even now a
couple
of days later that little spot on my finger itches.
I don't think there is any jewel weed blooming just now. I live in the
Catskill Mts. I will look up Sour Dock to see what that looks like.
Anyone here know of Susun Weed? She lives just up the road from me.
:-)
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Best Regards,
Evelyn
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