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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562974
06/26/19 07:23 PM
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Stinging nettle sucks, pigs seem to always hang out in it. An old timer called it 7-minute itch, I’ve timed the blistering itch sensation a few times and it fades pretty darn close to 7 minutes. Super helpful info about your tea question I know. Sorry.

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: trapper les] #6562977
06/26/19 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by trapper les
Edible does not mean good to eat-- Patrick McManus


If you did not bring jerky, what did I just eat?
Bill Heavey


Zim

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562982
06/26/19 07:37 PM
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Good one Zim


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Zim] #6562985
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Also, if'n you need to locate stinging reds, just go trout fishing with Patrice.
In a matter of minutes she will go skidding down the bank with only nettles
to break her fall. I swear, some of them get 8 feet tall here by summer.
Anyone who would consider planting them needs to take up crocheting or some such hobby.

Zim

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6562987
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They are not hard to find here either.


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6563002
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Why you wanna try to make tea out of that crap-don't be a tightwad-get some real tea at the grocery store before you poison yourself trying to save a couple bucks.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: River Birch] #6563110
06/26/19 11:11 PM
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Very informational! I dig it

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Boco] #6563119
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Originally Posted by Boco
Why you wanna try to make tea out of that crap-don't be a tightwad-get some real tea at the grocery store before you poison yourself trying to save a couple bucks.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: KeithC] #6563144
06/27/19 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by KeithC
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.

Keith

It burns just long enough to make you regret it lol

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6563921
06/28/19 09:01 AM
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So sad seeing all the ignorance about edible wild plants in general, and nettles in particular. Especially here of all places.


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
"We are fast approaching... rule by brute force."
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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: DuxDawg] #6587346
08/03/19 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DuxDawg
So sad seeing all the ignorance about edible wild plants in general, and nettles in particular. Especially here of all places.


I’ve been thinking of trying Polygonum substituted for green onions for 10 years. I chew on it often, but I haven’t tried cooking with it yet.

Ever chew on any? Some of em are like super spicy green onions to my taste buds

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6587411
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Enlighten us Duxdawg !

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6587422
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I really don’t care about the health benefits of it, stung once thats enough.

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Zim] #6587471
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Originally Posted by Zim
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.

Zim


Thanks Zim … I was trying to remember the name of Jewel Weed …. we always called it water weed. When I was a small buy my dad turtle trapped the Licking River here in Ohio. He waded in the water and I walked on the shore and drug the turtles in a burlap bag. The first thing I would do when I got there was to pull up a big handful of Jewel weed, because the entire length of shoreline was covered in stinging nettles and I broke out in rash and red welts from the stuff, but the rubbing the Jewel weed on it stopped the irritation.

Garry-


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Golf ball] #6587537
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Enlighten us Duxdawg !

X2. Thanks for the help , Duxdawg.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #6587636
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The stuff smells like cat pee. There would have to be some real magic in the tea for me to go through the trouble of harvesting the plant
BTW, you can pulverize jewel weed and freeze it to take the sting away. Staying away from the stuff works best.

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #7053988
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
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.


1.) I grow it for personal use.
2.) Get seeds from rareseeds.com. Make a box or area boxed-in so it doesn't spread everywhere as I'm told it will.
3.) It's the greatest green that you'll ever eat. Fry up leaves in butter and olive oil, or put into soups/stews. More delicious than Anything else. Basically as soon as it hits boiling water or even hot water, the little parts that "sting" (look it up, it's not a sting, it's how the plant is made) disappear. Heck, frying it up for 2 minutes with some meat and they disappear.
4.) Yes tea.
5.) It's not poison ivy, you should not be scared of it. I was! Until I learned it was a food and medicine and like all good stuff: Was replete with a book of wives-tales. Just get it.
6.) It will sting you hand for maybe 24 hours but that's it. Unless you have some allergy (which I've never heard of) but if not, it's fine. Get used to it. Wear gloves if you want.
7.) Probably many more uses, but that's what I do. It's more valuable to me than Anything else I grow.


Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #7054023
11/18/20 10:17 AM
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Stinging nettles can be harvested all year long if you know what you're doing. Four ways to avoid the sting: heat, crushing, drying and only using the meristem portions. Sad that so much has been forgotten about such an awesome resource.


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Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #7054026
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Lots of nettles here. Whenever it gets on me or the kids we just head to the river and wash it off with plain water. Goes away instantly. Had a horse go down on me once after riding through a big patch of nettles. Ended up figuring out what happened and wiped his legs off with blanket and he quit rolling, got kinda western for a minute or two, pulling the saddle on the way down and wiping legs while rolling. lol

Also, if we know we came in contact with poison ivy we wash the area with Lava soap as soon as possible and do not end up getting it. Few of us are real sensitive to it.

Lava is a great soap for the fish house as well. Best I have found for removing fishy smell from your hands after cleaning a big batch, in case your heading to town right after. eek

Re: Stinging Nettle Tea [Re: Jurassic Park] #7054049
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Many good books on wild edibles.
Thayer, Elpel, Kallas, etc.

I've eaten 250+ species of wild plants and 30+ species of wild fungi.
I spend three years learning each species:
Where to find it (geology, soil, companions, microclimate, etc).
What it looks like at every stage of growth; the fine details of flower, leaf, stem and root; look alikes, etc.
Edible & medicinal uses; cautions & contraindications; etc.

Where would you suggest I begin, Golf Ball?


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
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"We are fast approaching... rule by brute force."
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