Große Brennessel

Variety

Große Brennessel

created by KräuterMax at 19.01.2025

Features

Color

green

Resistances

resistant

robust

Taste

aromatic

Slightly bitter

nutty

tart

sweetish

soury

Fruit shape

Nut

Growth habit

growth habit: high

growth habit: semi-upright

growth habit: runner-forming

growth habit: upright

root type: shallow-rooted

lifespan: perennial

harvest: continuously pickable

harvest: profitable

Location

planting: outdoor

planting: bed

planting: near compost

light: sunny to semi-shady

Fertilization: nutrient-rich

fertilization: humus-enriched

soil moisture: fresh to moist

Soil: loamy

Soil: slightly loamy

Soil: medium to heavy

Season Overview

Sowing

Harvest

Harvest

J

F

M

A

M

J

J

A

S

O

N

D

1ST YEAR

FOLLOWING YEARS

Description

One of the few herbs that everyone knows is this wild herb. And it is extremely useful. The seeds (little nuts) are great for sprinkling over salads and are easy to harvest. The young shoot tips (top 5 cm) are easy to fold and put in your mouth or simply add to your salad. The less tender leaves are great in a wild herb soup, for frying or dried for tea. Nettle cloth was also made from them, but is rare today. At the moment, gardeners are once again using nettle liquid manure as a fertilizer, but this should only be used with consideration for your garden neighbors due to the smell and is not necessarily the best choice on the balcony or in the city. The whole plant is also suitable as a fertilizer, as it is not only a nitrogen indicator, but also stores it and slowly releases it again as it rots. It is therefore also suitable as dried hay in the planting holes of tomatoes and other heavy eaters or as mulch. However, it is also often found wild along roadsides where dogs, cattle or others do their business (perhaps be careful with fresh consumption there). The high iron content of the plants is also interesting for women. It is an important caterpillar food plant for many butterflies, and various beetles, flies and other insects also benefit from it. In the first year of planting, it can tolerate three harvests in which a hand's breadth is cut off at the top. In the second year it can even be harvested 5 times. It can grow to a height of 1-2 meters! can be.

Non hybrid

Frostproof

Growing tips

A sunny to semi-shady location on fresh to moist, humus-rich soil is favorable, but it has not been cursed by many gardeners without reason, as almost any garden soil will do.

Details

Germination temperature

10 – 15 °C (Degrees Celsius)

Plant distance

10 cm

Row spacing

10 cm

Seeding depth

1 cm

Companion Plants

No companion plants

Antagonistic Plants

No antagonistic plants

Diseases

No diseases

Pests

No pests

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