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Aozotorp wrote:

It has various uses! Teas! I would like to add it to my cheeses as I heard
that is a very good use! I have drank some hemp brewed beer - no active
ingredient, very good! Believe it can be used there! If they approach my
garden from the side, they will find my dog much worse than any Nettle
attack!

Nettles are very nutritious as a potherb. They can also be used to build
character, as in the proverb "Grasp the nettle firmly". Personally, I'd
recommend gloves. Once they are wilted by boiling or steaming, they are
no longer aggressive (the nettles, not the gloves).

Nettles are a sign of rich soil -- they are often found in old barnyards.

"Aozotorp" wrote in message
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Would like to try growing some Sting Nettle next year! But have had some
people come into my yard to pull some of my flowers! So, just how bad
would this plant be to idiots who come into the yard to pull flowers?

If they have to wade through a patch of nettles to get at your flowers,
and they are wearing shorts, it would be a deterrent. Of course, it
would be a deterrent for you, your friends, family, visitors and dog,
too.

As for deterring flower thieves, I've occasionally put up a sign on the
fence "Please don't steal my flowers" after some lilies and irises were
beheaded, which may have helped, but this is Canada, where people are
notoriously civil.

Yea, this is the US! I remember a few years ago a Rancher in Meeker Colorado
put some signs on his cows that said this is a cow do not shoot it! They were
all plugged by the end of the hunting season!

At a house I lived in previously, I grew eggplants
in the little patch of ground in front, and some were stolen. A friend
suggested a sign "Some of these eggplants have been injected with
poison", which I thought was a pretty amusing idea, although I didn't
implement it.

If you are on good terms with your neighbors, they may come out and
yell at the flower bandits for you in your absence. Mine do.

These are crazed Czechs from a bar near me! Having had Roma relatives that
roamed that area of Europe - I am inclined to plant the Nettles; but I have
devised a way to lift my garden onto my flat roof! The weight is on the
outside walls and pulls them in!



I'd suggest you just decide not to let it get to you. After all, it
means that you've created something appealing enough to be worth
stealing. Also, children often don't realize they are doing something
wrong when they pick flowers, and adults sometimes don't think a few
flowers will be missed.


Actually they have dumped such as terpentine on the garden - not healthy for
little children to dig in!