Stinging Nettle Plant 50 Seeds - Herbal Tea or Deterent

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Product Feature

• Stinging Nettle - Urtica dioica
• Stinging hairs covering this plant
• Hardy to Zone 3
• Plant to keep unwanted visitors out of your yard and garden
• 50 Seeds **WARNING** Seeds are extremely tiny!

Product Description

Stinging Nettle - Urtica dioica. Tall herbaceous plant that has many uses in organic and biodynamic gardening (green manure, insecticide, etc.). Used also as a herbal tea. Watch out though for the stinging hairs covering this plant (it can be very painful). Male and female plants. 6 high or more. Perennial (zone 3). A most potent herb, the many qualities compensating for the stung fingers that inevitably accompany the harvest. The sting is caused by the formic acid in the plant and can be soothed by rubbing the spot with dock leaves (Rumex obtusifolus). Providence, somehow, usually plants the dock alongside the nettle beds. Nettle is like a beast with a heart of gold.Nettle is a perennial 2-7 feet high: the root is creeping and branching, the plant is clothed in stinging hairs and bears opposite, cordate, deeply serrate, pointed leaves which are downy underneath; heart-shaped, finely toothed leaves and it has a clump of upright, four-angled, 1-2 foot stems are covered with downy hair and with venomous spines; emits an acrid fluid when touched, causing pain. Each spine is a hollow needle filled with venom which is released whenever the plant is brushed. The venom stings like a bee and produces a red rash. The virulent qualities are destroyed by cooking (boiling or steaming) or drying the plant. The small, petal-less, greenish flowers grow in axillary clusters in "tassels", male and female on separate plants; blooms from July to September. Fruits are small nutlets enclosed in dried sepals.It is an old English custom to drink nettle tea on occasion. This habit was believed to have been brought with the Roman conquerors to the Isles, who used the tea as a bracer in the rigorous climate.Plant to keep unwanted visitors out of your yard and garden.

Stinging Nettle Plant 50 Seeds - Herbal Tea or Deterent Review

Okay, I know I am going to sound like a horrible person when I post what I used these seeds for. Give me a chance to explain!

I recieved these seeds as a gift from a friend who was tired of hearing me complain about errant children and dogs in my backyard. Very clever and thoughtful gift! You see, I live in a "pool community", and the pool backs up against my backyard. We aren't allowed to have fences here (per the HOA bylaws), so it is a regular sight to see half-naked adults and children walking through my yard (within 10 feet of my living room! As you can imagine, they shade their eyes and peer in. It can be pretty invasive to even try to watch a movie). I've tried asking them to use the sidewalk, I've tried reasoning with them, I've sent out letters, I've tried everything short of a bio-hazard.
Here's where the stinging nettles come in! In order to get to the pool by taking a shortcut through my yard, you have to go through this little stand of trees and honeysuckle on the "back 40" part of my yard. Kids were building "forts" and such back there, and killing my trees with their huge nails. Hey, I can't be home all the time to police my property, so I planted these seeds in the hope that my awful neighbors would begin to use the sidewalk.
Well, 2 years later, I have no "forts" to clean out, and, while people still cut through my yard, they seem to be taking the long way around. The stinging nettles have multiplied since I haphazardly planted them, and are a GREAT deterrent for adults and kids alike! My HOA can't tell me to cut them down, because I planted them in a very "landscaped" way, and I now have less than 20% of the problem I had before.
I'd say the germination rate in the organic topsoil I planted the seeds in was about 20%, but each plant grew to be quite large, so it didn't matter.
These plants aren't meant to be grown for beauty, as they look like weeds. They are meant as a deterrent!

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