Garden update

[bunn]

Much of the area I had cleared earlier in the spring has been taken over by nettles, so I have just been out strimming enthusiastically.  I have piled an old cotton rug, 2 large cardboard boxes (flattened) onto it, and on top of that, some lawn mowings. With a bit of luck that will discourage them a bit.

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Apparently chimpanzees love eating nettles.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

This comment cries out for the response: where can we get some chimpanzees? But as I am pretty sure that chimps would be even more destructive than, say, goats in a garden, I shall not say it. :-P

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

Chimps? *I* like eating nettles - although the only thing I've tried so far is mixing them into home made hash browns.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Uuuurgh.

I like fruit and veg, but if there is one plant that is a Plant Too Far for me, it is the nettle. I made nettle soup once. It had all the nicest ingredients, apart from the nettles - so I am pretty sure what was responsible for it being the most horrible soup ever to be created. It was truly vile.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I bet you have to get rid of the stinginess first. Apparently chimps can eat them raw.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's a nettle-eating contest each year - somewhere in your part of the world, IIRC.