It’s always fun to eat your enemies is what they told me at the garden centre when we had too many snails eating our lettuces, and the same goes for our fine crop of orties, or nettles. Wear gloves, pick them while they’re young, and put them in a potage with some potatoes and cream and they taste just like spinach.
Faut pas pousser mémé dans les orties (Don’t push granny in the nettles) means don’t push too hard, don’t exaggerate.
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