"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:09:32 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

I hesitate to suggest growing some nettles in a pot, as
you would need
to prevent them seeding.

IIRC, nettles are dioecious. That is, individual plants
bear
either male or female flowers exclusively. It should be
easy to
select a male plant from the nearest wild patch thereby
obviating
any risk of seeding.

Useless information in my case, since the whole back yard of
one of my neighbours consists almost exclusively of nettles.
{:-((

Franz