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wildlife, they can be made into great plant food and are a surprisingly versatile ingredient in the kitchen.The nettle we're used to in the UK is Urtica dioica, a perennial plant full of iron, calcium, magnesium and nitrogen, which makes it incredibly

.I’m guessing that many people just don't notice they're there. Since adults and larvae only appear on the feathery leaves, they are long gone and have not yet reappeared by the time the spears are harvested in spring. And even though some plants harbour

red blotches on hawthorn leaves and, of course, moths that devastate horse chestnut trees.On the whole, I like leaf miners. I don't enjoy finding them in my saucepan after harvesting spinach in the dark, and I was upset when they mined my aquilegias

; there was something strange about the perspective because it made the bird look much bigger than their normally neat and petite form.Today I harvested the remaining fruit. I don't know what variety the tree is, but the apples are not very tasty except in crumble

the constant stream of large winged queens (and the slightly smaller males) take to the air for their mating flight. Up above, the swifts were having a bountiful harvest. I have only noticed the wingless queens this year, after they land and shed their wings

be compromised by the combined herbivore stress of millions of tiny grubs munching away at the leaves, but we managed a good harvest from the park last September.I also noticed the litter strewn around the park. Now, this isn't local yobs leaving their beer cans