LITTLE WILD LIBRARY: NETTLE

Discover how to make the most of this tenacious plant, with recipes and makes to try throughout the year. Bursting to life in spring and popping up everywhere, the nettle is one of the most common plants, though sometimes cruelly called weeds! Once you've found your favourite patch of nettles, come back as the seasons change and find new things to do with your foraged treasure. Learn how to identify and how to safely forage for nettles. Discover easy recipes that make use of fresh and sweet nettle tips that appear in spring. From the comprehensive botanical information included, take this pocket-sized book out on foraging adventures to help spot the urtica dioica waving merrily on a spring breeze, or brightening a dull afternoon. Through the book, learn all about the nettle including how it got its name, and discover some of the myths, legends, and folklore attached to this fantastic plant. With Botanical Information Get to Know Nettle - Common names: devil's plaything, hokey-pokey, jinny nettle, stinging nettle, burn-nettle, burn-weed. Why not try Nettle Pesto, Nettle Shampoo, Nettle Facial Steam, Nettle Ink - make this in spring when the nettles are still young and fresh and have more chlorophyll to deepen the colour, and Nettle Fertiliser, one of the best ways to enrich your soil, and therefore your plants, and can be found in the nettles at the bottom of your garden! 148 x 113mm. Colour photos. 112 pages.