# How to Extract Nettles
Beautiful lawns and gardens are easily spoiled by persistent weeds like stinging and burning nettles. These weeds commonly grow on any land that has not been cultivated for a long period of time -- potentially your lawn. Though valued for their medicinal properties, they are unattractive in a lawn. They are also aptly named because they either sting or burn or both when they come into contact with skin. Using mechanical and chemical weeding tools, however, you can remove them, provided that you are thorough and persistent.
Things You'll Need
- Heavy gardening gloves
- Trowel or other weed digging tool
- Herbicide
Instructions
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Wear heavy gloves and long sleeves to protect skin. Nettles will cause a rash on your skin.
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Dig deep around the plant with a trowel or other digging tool. Be sure to remove all of the root.
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Hoe repeatedly to destroy the roots. When hoeing, raise the hoe over the root and bring the sharp end down over the root to cut it. Pull the hoe towards you to rip any remaining roots out of the ground before lifting and repeating the process. The hoeing process entails severing the root and dragging it out of the ground.
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Compost any un-flowered tops but burn or bag the roots.
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Apply weedkiller to emerging shoots in spring and any re-emerging sprouts following mechanical removal.
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