http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2010/01/a-botanist-tackles-spurge-nettle-for-lunch/ Discovering the Edible and Medicinal Plants of Florida Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2010/01/a-botanist-tackles-spurge-nettle-for-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-496 E. K. Sommer Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=160#comment-496 Thanks Nevil! That great to know because the stuff is ubiquitous and awfully difficult to get rid of, so it good to learn to live with it and make it a create part of garden. Hope you enjoy the "potatoes." Thanks Nevil! That great to know because the stuff is ubiquitous and awfully difficult to get rid of, so it good to learn to live with it and make it a create part of garden. Hope you enjoy the “potatoes.”

]]> http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/2010/01/a-botanist-tackles-spurge-nettle-for-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Nevil Parker Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:32:09 +0000 http://www.myherbalnotebook.com/?p=160#comment-495 Spurge nettle also makes a pretty landscape plant in the native garden, although it's hard to transplant. Your best bet is to go for the very young plants that haven't yet developed the long tap root. Last year, I dug up a number of straggling 'tread softly' youngsters in my yard and transplanted them next to a trio of <em>Baptisia alba</em> (white wild indigo) plants under a lone black cherry tree (<em>Prunus serotina</em>). The white flowers look pretty against brown fallen leaves, and the fuzzy leaves sparkle with condensation when the air is moist. I had no idea, though, that the root could be eaten. (With butter no less.) I'm going to try it! Spurge nettle also makes a pretty landscape plant in the native garden, although it’s hard to transplant. Your best bet is to go for the very young plants that haven’t yet developed the long tap root. Last year, I dug up a number of straggling ‘tread softly’ youngsters in my yard and transplanted them next to a trio of Baptisia alba (white wild indigo) plants under a lone black cherry tree (Prunus serotina). The white flowers look pretty against brown fallen leaves, and the fuzzy leaves sparkle with condensation when the air is moist. I had no idea, though, that the root could be eaten. (With butter no less.) I’m going to try it!

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