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Know your enemy: Stinging nettles
By adamg on Wed, 05/17/2006 - 9:41am
God, I hate stinging nettles, because they are stealthily taking over our backyard and because, well, they sting like the dickens. Die, stinging netttles, die! Anyway, the Urban Pantheist discusses this backyard pestilence:
... Stinging nettles is an aptly named herb, well-armed with thousands of tiny hypodermic syringes full of poison. Brush up against it, and several of these needles deploy their payload into your skin, resulting in tiny itchy tingly painful welts. ...
Amazingly, some lunatics actually try to eat the stuff, he reports.
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Comments
Counter attack
Adam,
I'll gladly lend you my gas-powered weed whacker. That will give you about four feet of leeway. It may not be the most environmentally friendly approach, but I say all's fair in love and war and I say this is an all-out war.
Thanks, but ...
We actually have a weedwhacker (electric, but our yard is small enough that, with an extension cord, I can go anywhere with it), but the problem is that if you whack these mini-bastards what you do is wind up spewing their poison-filled spines all over the place, so we have to dig 'em out by hand (VERY carefully, but they seem to come out easily enough). Now if only the giant mutant brownish red slugs we have would eat their roots instead of the grass, but nooooo ...