Organic Stinging Nettle Plant
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Organic Stinging Nettle Plants:
One of my favorite plants, used as herbal infusions teas etc.
Grow plants about 12-18 inches apart from each other. Grows 3-5 feet tall. It likes a lot of nitrogen, even fresh manure.
Nutritious Leaves are Good to Eat:
Best harvested in the evening or early morning for more essential oils.
The leaves are eaten in the spring by cooking them like spinach. It is high in protein (25% dry weight), iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, chlorophyll, calcium, manganese, postassium and trace minerals. The cooking water is good to drink. Native Americans harvested the leaves in spring when other food was scarce.
*The leaves are not usually eaten after they start to flower because they are gritty. So to have nettle leaves all year, dry your leaves in the spring. The flowers are edible too. Animals love eating the plants if they are wilted.
Benefits: Stinging nettle’s anti-inflammatory qualities affect a number of key receptors and enzymes in allergic reactions, preventing hay fever symptoms.
One of my favorite plants, used as herbal infusions teas etc.
Grow plants about 12-18 inches apart from each other. Grows 3-5 feet tall. It likes a lot of nitrogen, even fresh manure.
Nutritious Leaves are Good to Eat:
Best harvested in the evening or early morning for more essential oils.
The leaves are eaten in the spring by cooking them like spinach. It is high in protein (25% dry weight), iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, chlorophyll, calcium, manganese, postassium and trace minerals. The cooking water is good to drink. Native Americans harvested the leaves in spring when other food was scarce.
*The leaves are not usually eaten after they start to flower because they are gritty. So to have nettle leaves all year, dry your leaves in the spring. The flowers are edible too. Animals love eating the plants if they are wilted.
Benefits: Stinging nettle’s anti-inflammatory qualities affect a number of key receptors and enzymes in allergic reactions, preventing hay fever symptoms.
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- Reduce bleeding connected to gingivitis
- Treat disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract
- Provide relief from water retention
- Prevent or treat diarrhea
- Decrease menstrual flow
- Provide asthma relief
- Heal wounds
- Treat hemorrhoids
- Stimulate contractions in pregnant women
- Treat insect bites
- Treat tendonitis
- Treat anemia
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