on potting nettles

To the amazement of many a guest, one of my most exuberant potted plants was a beautiful and sometimes enormous nettle. The past tense is because I don't have potted plants at the moment... what I do have is access to clean and organic nettle to harvest as much as I want. And there seems…

the nettle’s healing kiss

I've always been puzzled by the "what's your favourite" question. How can one choose? That said, the Stinging Nettle, Urtica dioica, could well be my favourite plant. It is probably the one I eat the most, at least in leaf count: some tree-cabbage and kale leaves around here are big enough to cover several hundreds…