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Stinging Nettle Tea #6562532
06/26/19 01:09 AM
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Does anyone make Tea out of stinging nettle? I was told I have it all around my place and to be careful of it cause it stings.
I thought well what the heck, I don’t ever get stung by any plant around here. Only plant I look out for is poison ivy.
I googled it to see what it looks like, and found out it’s very nutritious and makes a great tea.

Looks like wild mint when it’s small and makes me think it’s the plant that fools me when I go picking it. I rub the leaves, and never gotten stung from it.

I think I’m gonna make some tea and serve it at the local hall! Free coffee and tea every Wednesday morning.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562533
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After my experiences with stinging nettle, I have gone out of my way to avoid them. I know people make tea out out of stinging nettles and blanch and eat stinging nettles. Procuring the stinging nettles is something to be avoided in my opinion.

In 1993, I was fishing a public hunting area called Pater, in South West, Ohio and had to wade through stinging nettles to get to the stream I wanted to fish and to leave the stream. I had shorts on. I had heard of them, but never experienced them before. The next time I went there, I wore chest waders.

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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562538
06/26/19 01:58 AM
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I'd try it. What nutrients does the plant have?

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562545
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OK> a couple things here. You only want to harvest the bran-spankin-new spring nettles for eating You can get away with a bit older for tea,but We are talking 4 leaflets or less and only take the top 2. The rest will be bitter and have less vitamins. Additionally, older leaves/ shoots may cause some gastro/intestinal upset and nausea. When you can get them fresh out of the ground in the early spring (often before the snow melts) they make great pesto, slasa, tea, salad greens, etc.


I hope this helps. I am new to trapping but an old hand at edible plants (so long as they are the same as in Alaska.)

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562549
06/26/19 04:59 AM
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You can rub it on you with no problem, but let it gently brush exposed skin while walking through it and you will know it. Around here it's why you wear long sleeves sang digging!


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562573
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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562604
06/26/19 07:38 AM
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I planted stinging nettle for the second year. Last year it got washed out as I planted in the wrong place. This year I have it in a "staging garden" concept I've come up with (mostly because I don't know what I'm doing).

Can anyone tell me the best place to transplant my nettle plants? Where have you had the best success of them taking off?

Thanks.


Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562619
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You are on the right track if it washed out .it really grows best in bottom ground woods

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562667
06/26/19 09:31 AM
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I've had cooked and eaten like spinach.

We boiled it and changed the water 3 times, while preparing it like spinach. Added butter and salt it was just ok.
That was in a Nature foods class back in the mid 70's

Never would I Try to grow it, or introduced it intentionally.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Bigfoot] #6562670
06/26/19 09:35 AM
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We sometimes pick a few when they are young and sauté them in butter with salt and pepper.
They taste just like butter, salt and pepper.

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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562683
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When you are in at NAFA ask Mel about it he boils the leaves and uses it to fertilize his tomato plants.
Must have been an old Alberta homesteaders remedy he brought

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Msturm] #6562709
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Originally Posted by Msturm
OK> a couple things here. You only want to harvest the bran-spankin-new spring nettles for eating You can get away with a bit older for tea,but We are talking 4 leaflets or less and only take the top 2. The rest will be bitter and have less vitamins. Additionally, older leaves/ shoots may cause some gastro/intestinal upset and nausea. When you can get them fresh out of the ground in the early spring (often before the snow melts) they make great pesto, slasa, tea, salad greens, etc.


I hope this helps. I am new to trapping but an old hand at edible plants (so long as they are the same as in Alaska.)


Thanks!
Ya that’s what I read about yesterday. I went looking for it this morning and didn’t find any for sure. The plants I thought it might be didn’t have the hairs on it like the pics I’ve seen so I’m not 100% sure.


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I’m not too interested in eating it. Just wanting to make a tea to sip on while reading some Tman!


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562716
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Like someone said, wade through it wearing shorts and you'll soon remember what itch-weed looks like! Lol.

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Bigfoot] #6562727
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Originally Posted by Bigfoot
You are on the right track if it washed out .it really grows best in bottom ground woods


I might try transplanting one of the plants into bottom ground that floods all the time. I had it in a field last time. Thanks for the tip.


Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562866
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Ground that gets frequently flooded is where I have always seen the highest concentrations of it.
I have never had poison Ivy and i have waded through it. I have pulled it from the sides of trees so I could use the tree as a rifle rest while hunting squirrels.
If I get hold of stinging nettles, I break out in blisters.
I may have some on my lots at present. Just waiting on verification and at that time, they will be gone!

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562871
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Rubbing dirt on it always seemed to help. I don't go to the river much anymore so it hasn't been an issue for me in a good while but this tomato feed thing has got me intrigued.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562877
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its a truly crazy thing......sting the bejesus out of ya......but the sting is gone after you put it in boiling water. nettles/itchweed are a superfood......packed with protiens and vitamins. its a handy plant to know if your caught in a situation. all kinds of food out there that most folks see everyday.....and don't know it........cattails,milkweed pods,purslane,primrose,nutsedge,


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: foxkidd44] #6562895
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If you have jewel weed around where you got bit by the nettles, break off a piece and rub the juice on the sting. Pretty good remedy.

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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562947
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