Some Urtica Dioica will also work........

You know, as much as they were utter bastards as far as I was concerned growing up (stung me many times), I kind of miss seeing them now I'm out here. Summer doesn't feel quite the same without them.

Not really, they only work directly, in direct contact with skin, whereas poison ivy and sumac release their mischief onto any surface and it can transferred later onto skin, or be transferred onto other surfaces and still be transferred onto skin. ..... If you have a dog you may find that he rubbed against poison ivy and got it on his coat before later rubbing against your leg, or you stroked him then rubbed your arm.

There's always the possibility the would-be garden shitter won't recognize the plant type and will decide to use a leaf as a handy piece of natural bog roll.

Hilarity (for the garden owner) ensues.

Hopefully - but you may never know as IME it takes 3days-3weeks to develop the irritating rash depending on how sensitive you are to urushiol.

I also miss Urtica Dioica - even though it was the bane of my life as a kid, but there was always a dock leaf to help relieve the sting. Of course, not only are they are great for butterflies, but without them the World Nettle Eating contest would not exist!!!

Stinging Nettles

I guess we're not all super smart and some of us had to Google it

One of my brothers and me dared one of our younger brothers to ride his little 3 wheeled scooter down a steep bank. He did it but fell off half way down into a bed of stinging nettles Poor kid was covered with whelps. He never did tell on us, he told mum he just toppled over

I hope he grew up as good as he was then, my younger brother always told on us, and has never changed!!

I have 5 brothers and 1 sister. The youngest of us is 52 now the oldest is 73!We always stuck together and covered for each other when we were kids, and when we get together now we have many tales to tell and we always remember them differently

Any time I was stung by a nettle growing up, a welt formed near enough right away.

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's not something you want on your balloon knot, however much of a delay there is in the irritation presenting, though

Most of us probably had to Google it. I did.

We were the same. There's 10 of us ranging from 54 to 72. We stuck together for the most part. Except the time when I was about 9 and my sisters were fooling around in the kitchen. One of them threw a piece of raw liver ar the other one snd missed. It splatted on my dad's brand new wallpaper and left a huge bloody splat. She promptly shouted "Dad, Dorothy threw liver at the wallpaper". Said sister now sports a large scar on her left arm from where I broke the coke bottle when I hit her with it. Needless to say I was in a bit of trouble for that.

The blood on the arm should have taken your dad's mind off the blood on the wall though. Nice move D.

Me too.

yep, and me and still does with the patch growing in our garden.