Be nice to nettles week

[Paul mabbott]

No, I'd not heard of it either,
National Be Nice to Nettles Week

[Wild-Woman]

Excellent. Something with some sense. Good old nettles.

[mrs fish]

Hurray for nettles

[cat72uk]

i have a large patch of nettles thay are brill

[gfilmsuk]

The info says that the sting can be treated with a dock leaf, but I know a better remedy. Carefully fold a nettle leaf indide out and rub firmly on the sting, the juice from the leaf works much better than dock.

[witham]

When I was at infant school many moons ago we still used to celebrate 'Oak Apple Day' and you were supposed to wear a sprig of oak on your clothes, anyone who didn't was chased by someone who had a stinging nettle and you would get slashed around the legs with it, the boys still wore short trousers then so it was good sport, with all the mamby pambying, health and safety nonsense today can you imagine the law suites if it happened now.

[gfilmsuk]

That was in the days when the old times really were the best.

[Kayleigh]

I ordered some plants early in the season. I have a lovely little nettle growing in one of them. I haven't the heart the dug it up.

[Meta menardi]

Every one with a garden should have a small patch of them. Good food plant for some caterpillars, and fun to push people into.

[Paul mabbott]

And the stinging in your fingers distracts you from the original problem?

Originally Posted by gfilmsuk

The info says that the sting can be treated with a dock leaf, but I know a better remedy. Carefully fold a nettle leaf indide out and rub firmly on the sting, the juice from the leaf works much better than dock.