Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
If you’re going to eat stinging nettles, it’s as well to wash the bird poo of the leaves first
Every year around now – that first great flush of growth that always comes in May after rain – the stinging nettles appear at their most inviting. Noone’s going to be running them through their hands in admiration, but I can’t help wondering if, once we’ve received that first painful instruction in childhood, we ever again give more than a cursory glance to their handsome, saw-toothed foliage, faintly outlined in a haze of tiny hairs that would inject a cocktail of serotonin and histamine into the skin of the unwary browser. Every year I promise myself I will harvest them for the kitchen – the moment is now. Sautéed, or soup? That’s the only question.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
