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Nettles Put Through Their Paces At Festival
Iron Age visitor attraction shows stinging weed's many applications.
Nettle soup anyone?
More at :
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1739118
(Published 17/5/2010)
Posted by
drewbhoy
17th May 2010ce
Comments (3)
I think it must be 'Be Nice to Nettles Week'
http://www.nettles.org.uk/nettles/lore.asp
Apparently they have all sorts of beneficial attributes, not least to wild life. I do believe fragments of neolithic nettle rope were found inside Silbury when the conservation work was being undertaken a 2/3 years back.
Posted by
tjj
17th May 2010ce
I grow nettles ...
Posted by
StoneGloves
17th May 2010ce
Must be June, Stoneglove has tonnes of them!
Posted by
drewbhoy
18th May 2010ce
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