I can't thank you enough for your channel. I think you have the best organic gardening/farming channel ever made. I am implementing as much of your advice as possible in my garden bed this year (I started with leaves and winter rye in October). And I am working on getting an acre to start growing all of the ingredients for my fermented hot sauce company. Seriously, thank you so much!

best channel, not only about plants and soil, thanks

We have Dead Nettle on our property naturally near our Peach grove. It is in the Mint family -- our recycler rabbits devour it so we pick buckets of it. I didn't know you can seed it, would like to add more! Huge bee draw when trees are blooming. Later in the season, catnip flowers is the biggest bee draw I have ever seen -- right next to our pepper plants that need it in August!

I got ton of them growing in my backyard. I add them to my salad 😁😋

Always heart to see your videos! Love the lushness of the purple velvet - nettle! Your fields stand ready for a Monet! Have a joyful weekend! Thanks for always great content!

I have these as winter weeds in my garden. Most people fight them but I use them as a winter cover crop and for pollinators to feed in very early spring in the south. It really attracts worms and if I pull it and compost it makes really fast,excellent compost.

It will be interesting to see a comparison of the size of the garlic cloves planted in the 2 different areas, if you show them. Future video suggestion!

You are so excited about something I used to think of as a pain in the neck. Actually I still consider purple dead nettle to be a pain when it grows in places I don’t want it. It forms a very dense mat of roots which I’m sure can be a good thing for the soil but how do you work through it when row planting? It’s easy if I am planting tomatoes where I just need to dig a hole but if I want to plant a row of beans it’s a pain. I will say when I’ve tossed it into a pile after removal it absolutely turns into black gold by the end of summer!

You was loving purple dead nettle, and I can't get rid of it out of my lawn. It looks great in your field.

HEY MARK! Always love watching your videos. The more I learn the better gardener I am. I leave a lot of my native flowering plants now in the garden until I'm ready to plant. I have lots of purple dead nettle as well and the bees love it. Funny you mentioned planting your garlic late this year because the same thing happened to me. I missed my normal change around November and didn't get them planted until we had a thaw sometime in December. I was a little nervous they wouldn't do well but they have done just fine, almost a 100% success of plants emerging I am so happy. I love all the experiments and comparisons your show on your channel. Thanks for sharing Mark. I hope your have a fruitful 2023. Happy gardening!

Love it! Thank you for highlighting this wonderful plant Mark! It’s here and there in our yard-I nibble on it daily 🙂

Great medicinal purposes also in the dead nettle. Also edible. You can also eat docks. Are you aware of that?

Sounds like spring in the pnw! After the pdn comes the lamb's quarters 😁

Great information, Thank You!

I am seeing it everywhere on My delivery route and near my home. I was thinking of foraging them but idk what to do with them. 😂 or how to use it as medicinal yet. There are a lot more than last year.

Wow I will never cuss these as weeds again. I love that you are growing within the purple nettles! Looking great!

Purple dead nettle. A new one for my list.

I throw the purple deadnettle into the blender with my fruit smoothies. I am going to try steaming it also.

Thank you bro for your valuable information, about back to Eden gardening, it has improved the way I plant with success again thank you so much

We get vigorous purple dead nettle every spring in Va. Alao some creeping charlie, dandelions, clover, and either henbit or chickweed (I getb them confused). Love your channel!

awesome,,, just subscribed

It's a pity you live in another country. I would buy some organic food from you, only just found your video. I live in Birmingham UK.

Hi Mark, always enjoy your channel - and your garden looks wonderful. I'm assuming you're not troubled by voles in your area? I live in Canada in USDA zone 4a, and all that ground cover would just be a haven for voles, and they would devastate any crop I planted there. The best I could do would be to work in that ground cover (I know, there goes the no-till benefit), and then add a mulch around my plants. If you or anyone has any other suggestions I'd be most grateful.

This has been all over my garden. They are a winter annual where I live. I planted my potatoes right into the dead nettle as well, but I shoveled the ground to get the potatoes in the ground. They should eventually fade as the potatoes come in.

Just discovered and subscribed today!! Exactly how I want to grow - organic and free. I had some purple dead nettle and some workers carelessly threw i-don't- know-what kind of dirt or crap material on them, and my deadnettles gave not come back since - about 2 years ago. Do you have any idea how I can get them back? So frustrating. Thanks

In addition to being good for your soil and for pollinators, purple dead nettle is pretty nutritious, too. After some of the PDN on our place finishes flowering and starts dropping seed for next year, we harvest some of it every couple days to help feed our rabbits and chickens. They love it.

So do you tarp over that area, to break down what's dying off, then plant?

Idk what I did but I think my problem might have just been some inconsistent watering because some roots where in the pot where moist but the roots that went thru the holes got dry and so I think the plant couldn't do anything properly but when they get transplanted and it's more consistent and more room, the problems sorta just go away? At least for now.

Where in the USA?

I've been following you for a long time but this time I just had to comment. This topic was what I was researching and finally got tired and said I just about bet Mark has something on this. You never fail! Thank You so much for all you share.