Nettle???

Anonymous-0 · Jun 29, 2011

Think that's what you folks call that weed that jumps on you and sets you on fire.... Have about a quarter acre that is waste high. Have a wonder juice to spray on it that works pretty good but... Should I mow in first and spray the new growth or spray it like it is with the thought that more leaves will soak up more poison???

Thanks, Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jun 29, 2011

Cut it down, wait for a flush of regrowth, after a rain, then spray it with a broadleaf chemical listed to take it out.

rustyfarmall · Jun 29, 2011

I've been fighting a small patch of that stuff for several years now. This spring it came up early and was nearly one foot tall before I realized it. I hit it with some 2,4d and it never came back.

1936 · Jun 29, 2011

Dave, as I said last spring they have a huge root base. Cut it down let it start to grow back and use round up a little off the label. I killed everything even near it in my yard. May take a couple of tries. Does burn like the hick on the skim.

Ultradog MN · Jun 29, 2011

I've thought about planting a bunch of it around my front doorstep. Let it get overgrown a bit to keep the solicitors and bureaucrats away.
Anyone who knows me knows to come to the back door.

8N'r--WI · Jun 29, 2011

Dave---if you had that field of nettles where I live, the Amish would think you were the devil himself if you poisoned it....they pick as much of it as they can get their hands on....

Tim
Medicinal Uses of Stinging Nettles

Dick L · Jun 29, 2011

My late wife was raised on a farm that bordered the north east end of Nettle Lake the largest natural lake in the state of Ohio. It was not mis named. My father in law controled the nettles with 2 4 D. It liked to creep out into the fields but from the waters edge out to where the ground could be farmed was as higher than my head. Had to tromp them down to get to the boat to go fishing. Back then you sure didn't go fishing in shorts. He developed the lake front into lots and two years of spraying from the waters edge out into the fields the nettels were gone for the most part. It then got mowed after the brush was cut and the old dead logs and limbs were cleaned up.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 29, 2011

(quoted from post at 06:17:12 06/29/11) Dave---if you had that field of nettles where I live, the Amish would think you were the devil himself if you poisoned it....they pick as much of it as they can get their hands on....

Tim
Medicinal Uses of Stinging Nettles

We cut some each spring and dry the leaves for tea and run the whole thing thru a chopper then dry it to keep for the horses but there is plenty growing around fields without wasting this one. Wifes grandma has a springfed wading pool close to her house that folks go in for circulation. They cut nettle and rub/slap their legs with it before wading.

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