It's 'Be Nice to Nettles Week' - a chance for fans of the herbaceous perennial flowering plant to redress the balance of bad publicity. But apart from making children miserable, what have stinging nettles ever done for us? It's difficult to show a nettle much love. You can't touch it, for one thing.
For many children the stinging pain of their first nettle rash is also a gentle first lesson about the darker side of nature. We told you not to go charging into the bushes after that football. But the treacherous weed can be tamed and put to good use - so here are 10 reasons why nettles are worth nurturing.
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When I was little I learned many things from Aesop's Fables, and one of them was, "Grasp the nettle firmly, my son, and it will never prick you." It's not true, I guess.
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