Große Brennessel
Variety
created by KräuterMax at 19.01.2025
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
Sowing
Harvest
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
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1ST YEAR
FOLLOWING YEARS
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
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.
Germination temperature
10 – 15 °C (Degrees Celsius)
Plant distance
10 cm
Row spacing
10 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
No companion plants
No antagonistic plants
No diseases
No pests