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I like to use nettles in the garden. My favorite herb 🌿 is dandelion 🌼🌱🌼
I was considering to get some nettles for the new compost heap because there is a lot of dry material in there already and I need some greens to activate it.
I share your stuff on an American Bug In Prepper web site.
They love it.
One thing that can be done with many greens is to dry and powder them for future use, especially in other foods.
We make fresh pasta with spring nettles and a filling with ricotta for ravioli.
Τhank you very much for your videos! What is your opinion about red clover?
Stinging nettle contains large amounts of oxalates (3100 mg/100gm) which are known to cause kidney stones when consumed in excess. Doctors I follow state that more than 200 mg per day of oxelate foods is not good for you.
Wonderful, thank you. 🙏
I couldn't route out all my stinging nettles if I tried.
I've eaten a few, steamed like spinach, and I have put some in water as a feed occasionally.
By the way…
'Analgesic' is pronounced – Annal-G-zik
Dry it and it makes a great nutrious tea.
Hi Huw, great video as always. I'm curious how one becomes a permaculturalist? Is there a certification/license involved or is it more a way of growing/life?
My mom picks them in the city (Chicago). I hope they aren’t leeching too many chemicals they’re delicious!
Thank Huw!! it is always a delight to listen to your very useful videos!! keep on doing them!
Weeds are just plants we can't control.
I eat, infuse and powder nettles.. Nature's perfect 💚
Couch grass is a weed, is a weed, is a weed.
Love it when Huw says “we’re all part of nature, it’s all fine and dandy…”SO true 👍🏻😃
I love nettles. you are amazing man. Been watching you grow for years.
Another edible "weed" is the similar but non-stinging white deadnettle & purple deadnettle plant. They are amongst the first to flower along with spring bulbs like daffodils, crocuses, tulips & muscari, but bumblebees seem to overwhelmingly prefer the nectar of the white deadnettle & dandelions.
There are so many powerful wild plants out there! I've been a forager for years and found a clump of nettle one day and bought it home. It does spread but if you do not have both sexes of plant it will not reproduce. I have one in a big planter in the shade and another under some Arbor Vitae. I would caution eating nettle after it has flowered because this can be very hard on the kidneys. It makes a wonderful tea to help with allergy and a deep green spring tonic if you pour boiling water over a jar of packed fresh green leaves. I love nettle!
A weed in my garden: strawberries! Thankfully they're easy to remove
I only made your nettle juice ferment yesterday, as well as first nettle & seaweed with comfrey into a bucket and way at the other end of the garden for early fertilizer two weeks ago. Last year I sown a lot of medicinal herbs into the garden. Thanks for your insight, loving the book by the way!!
2:12 what an artsy shot 🙂
My granny always claimed she wouldn't have lived to be 97 years old if she hadn't eaten nettle spinach and dandelion salad almost every day. 😊 I love both!
I make all the edible and medicinal things from nettles, including hair and skin care. Would never want to be without them! They’ve helped so much in so many ways.
Even tho they’re all different plants, the ‘weeds’ with “nettle” in their name are all incredible for many reasons.
Ha ha. Algorithm must be watching me. I’ve just had a big bowl full of nettles with perpetual spinach been eating it once every couple of weeks but I’ve just had it every day for the last 4 days and I’ve noticed something amazing … my eye site has started to improve. . I notice this morning I didn’t need my reading glasses to read my emails. First time in 2 years. … may be coincidence. But. I’m going to keep going as nettles are lovely …….. also I have nettle root in my. Herbal tea each morning (nettle root lemon balm mint sage and rosemary With some bought in ginger although I’m trying to grow ginger this year in the poly tunnel
Nettles nature's medicine and food. 😁
In Greece the old folk used it in soups, stews and as the greens instead of spinach in spinach pie. In Crete they use it as a staple green and people in the know pick it and cook it. Its very versatile.
I was collecting the tops of nettles for soup just this weekend. Trust me, they will more than recover lol. And I have to go to some wild land to get mine. So while I was there foraging, I had the joy of coming upon that rare beauty white trillium. As a forager I know that this is a plant that can be easily damaged by human interference and often doesn't recover very well. I don't need white trillium for anything except that mood boost I get rounding a bend in the trail to discover one in all its glory so I left it alone and took nothing but joy and pictures away. True foragers know these things. Yes, some people don't know these things and know how to manage the land they forage so that nature can be successful and other foragers can also benefit. Yes some people may indiscriminately damage things, but these aren't knowledgeable foragers.
However I guess there is a.point to be made that some people may watch a video like this, get a little knowledge on foraging and then tromp destructively through the woods. So maybe it's worth making a video on some.of the dos and don'ts of foraging if you are an influencer. Now I am just playing devil's advocate lol. Anyway. Thanks. I love your videos…and to anyone who has never eaten a good nettle soup, you aren't truly living! The soup I made this weekend had nettles and onions and carrots and a dash of milk and cheddar. Yummm!
Nettles are high in oxalic acid, which causes a whole lot of problems in the long run. Check out Sally Fallon about oxalic acid.
It is rare to find nettles here where we live but dandelion,plantain and many more are abundant.
I would love to have nettles not only for their food value but the wonderful fibre one can extract.
Ah, of course it is the only food that I am allergic to. The one time I ate nettle (on a very delicious pizza), I ended up with insanely itchy hives all over my body including the palms of my hands and the bottoms of my feet. Never again!
Huw, blimey you've come a long way. well done
Great video, thanks
I make nettle pancakes when there is fresh nettle about. NB they do thicken the mix considerably consequently it's best to start with a more fluid mix.
What a coincidence, I’ve just eaten steamed nettle tops as a veg with my cottage pie, simply delicious, been eating them for years! Also great food in the vegetable garden and I’ve also used them for years as a final rinse to my hair…..no dandruff and a good shine……just nettles steeped in hot water, like a tea. Thanks for the great video telling everyone how fantastic nettles are, nobody believes me.
That fencing in the 1st minute……nice.
Let's all do nettles, top stuff it is 👍
I love your attitude about nature, permaculture, and no dig. Thanks Huw for another interesting and useful video 👍🌟✔
Annal-gee-zick
Hi,thank you for sharing❤
I have tons of nettles if anyone wants some! 😊
I just realized how much Huw has changed. Still seems like he should be the teenager he was when first starting YouTube
Having a french mama we ate young dandelion leaves,. Stinging nettles are also great for herbal remedies
My Mum used to make Nettle wine back in the day, I can't say it tasted good but I was pretty young. Thanks for the Video.
Excellent video Huw. I really need to plant some nettle. Hopefully it won’t mind our hot dry climate (New Mexico High Desert). Can’t wait to receive your book…
Greetings Huw , how do you feel about " chick weed " ? Loads of it this year ! Your new garden is looking good !