Anyone here grow stinging nettle? (For tea or greens)

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I started some stinging nettle by seed. I’m planning on using it for tea and boiled greens. The biggest plus to me is the deer resistance. I know it is a weed for most people, but does anyone else grow it and use it?
 
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It grows on my land all on its own, and has to be removed from time to time, but it is a valuable plant, as you say for many purposes. Quite a few butterflies like to lay their eggs on the plant, and moths of course. Not only will it provide a source of iron in teas and as greens on your plate, but if there is some left over, cut it off and leave it in a bucket of water. The result will be good fertiliser, if a bit smelly 🥴
 
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I have False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) that grows in my yard naturally, I keep it because it's a host plant for the Red Admiral butterfly. I'm not sure if you can make tea from it -- I'm strictly a coffee guy:ROFLMAO:
 
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My chickens don't eat it so when I move them, I have a field of nothing else. I consider it a highly nutritious mulch and companion plant. My daughter makes a quiche with nettle.
 
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Just what Tetters says, it grows itself, a valuable food plant for quite a few things and makes good fertiliser. I am not fond enough of it to eat it often, when you do catch the young tips as much as you can, it can get quite stringy.
 

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I agree what Tetters has said, there's a lot growing here by the woods and around places but I've never used it for fertilizer, too smelly.
 
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Here's a video I watched when I first learned that this plant has more uses than just stinging the hell out of hikers. He also mentions False Nettle in this video.


 
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Is it frequent in the US? I remember an American friend years ago complaining how the English went on about poison ivy "But no-one warned me about stinging nettles, bastard things".
 
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It's frequent enough on the Appalachian Trail. Lot of hikers with itchy legs:eek:

Although some of those cases of being stung could be from hikers coming in contact with Wood Nettle (Laportea canadensis), as he mentions at about the 6-minute point of the video in post #8, above.
 
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I don't grow stinging nettle. Most of the beneficial purposes of stinging nettle are also provided by the stingless False Nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica) AKA Bog Hemp, which I purposely grow for butterflies, fertilizer, and cover crop.
 

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