Nettles

Gathered from Abney park, no less. With thick gloves.

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Fin Fahey says:

Is this the best season to pick nettles for soup then? Or are they suitable any time of year? Must find a recipe and try this, it appeals to me.
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ribot. says:

Very rustic! :D
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Maybe something us townees need to rediscover. I'm amazed every year at how no-one ever seems to be gathering the fine crops of blackberries on the Lee (not by the pre-Olympic toxic zone lower down, I can understand that, but around the Hackney/Walthamstow Marshes, pretty safe if the giant hogweed doesn't get you).

But I mentioned this to a rural friend of mine, and she says no-one seems to go blackberrying where she lives these days, it is regarded as faintly disreputable. I guess you are supposed to buy them in Tesco with lots of packaging and a proper sell-by date.

Anyway, there is a fine sloe bush in Abney Park I am keeping an eye on...
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STML says:

This is definitely the best time to pick nettles. And there's some very promising elferflower sprouting in Abney Park too, which should be ripe for the picking in a couple of weeks.

Sloes in Abney Park? You should not have told me.

I know where the bushes on the marshes are too - and saw people picking them last year. Might have to get myself down there.
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