"Chookie" wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote:

i would be interested to know, too :-) jackie french is on about nettles
all
the time yet i too have not seen them except once or twice as a kid.
(perhaps she grows them specially).

She probably does. I remember encountering wild stinging nettles from
time to
time in Dad's garden, but they were little plants with leaves smaller than
mint leaves.

Now my Dad is growing European stinging nettles -- deliberately. They
have
leaves up to the size of my hand and they do pack a punch. They are also
high
in iron and vitamin C IIRC.

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A good place to look is veggie farms in colder districts. When my husband
worked on a cauli/cabbage farm he'd bring huge bunches home for me, although
they would not be organic by any stretch of the imagination.


--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You
may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue