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Weed of the Week: Stinging nettle
Stinging nettles are nutritious, useful and the food plant of many
colourful butterflies - there obviously ought to be lots of them, though not where I'm going to be. In rich enough soil, one nettle soon spreads by a network of distinctive yellow roots to cover a large area with a forest of tall slender stems, stifling other plants and closing paths by falling across them. If you find one the hard way, get your gloves and pull it out - they make excellent compost and being stung is said to prevent arthritis. [ Section: 1/1 File: z_Nettle_2949.JPG UUencoded by: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.02 S ] sum -r/size 41535/186928 section (from "begin" to "end") sum -r/size 1429/135647 entire input file -- Sue ] |
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