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When to harvest Stinging Nettles?

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perry:
Forgive me for asking this question out of turn  I do not mean to hijack the thread , down here stinging nettle is an introduced species and I would say the same applies with harveting its fibre's down here just 6 months apart due to being in the Southern Hemisphere.
Could someone post a photo of the US type of stinging nettle so I can see if its the same  . Also down here a native fern called Bracken fern always grows close by when you rub it on a stinging nettle rash it disappears , great after a belly stalk through the stuff after game  ;D. Is there a local plant that has the same effect in the states .

regards Jacko

D. Tiller:
Perry here is a link to the image of the nettles we have up in the Northwest arround my house:

Justin Snyder:
David, just make sure you dont harvest it when your in the woods without any paper and nature calls.  :o Justin

perry:
Thanks for the photo D , thats the same plant we have here . As a footnote Stinging Nettle actually makes a pretty good cup of tea and after you have brewed your cuppa well the plant makes a tasty side dish - sorta like spinich . Boiling destroys the sting . I'm sure Mr Zimmerman would have covered this plant at some stage . 

Do you folks have a local plant that nulifies the stinging that grows nearby ?

Do you ret the plant down to extract the fibres like I have read with flax ?

regards Jacko

jape:
For stings 'dock' is best and usually found near nettles too, works immediately when 'stingeze' and so on doesn't.

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