Garlic has a new best friend!
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Happy growing!
I love purple deadnettle! I have let it "take over" many parts of my garden. I used to have early bloom pollination issues on my currants and some very early tree fruits. I thank the profusion of purple deadnettle for bringing all the pollinators to my garden before anything else blooms. I have never noticed it behaving in an impolite way to my cultivated plants. It is also quite delicious in soup, with a mushroomy flavor.
What a wonderful idea! I'll have to transplant some of mine to next to the currents!
We let our purple deadnettle grow everywhere it wants to go. It's all through our little orchard.
Purple dead nettle was my first "discovery" here at my new property. You can harvest some and dry it. Then you can infuse it into olive oil. Once infused you can melt in some beeswax and you have some great salve for bug bites and other skin ailments. It is also good for seasonal allergies. In our garlic bed there is a mixture of chickweed and purple dead nettle. I harvest a little each day and throw to my chickens who are happy for the forage!
Wow, you have gone deep in the dead nettle realm, kudos! Yeah, feels like a really caring and gentle plant being, glad you are allying so strongly with it! Chickweed and dead nettle feel like pretty close pals, makes sense they'd hang out together. Thanks for sharing!
that nettle showed up in my "killed front lawn" wildflower mini-meadow in Syracuse this year and i don't remember seeing it as much before, as well. i didn't know what it was but i left it in.
I love how on this channel "My garlic patch got weedy" becomes "New best friends for garlic". I can't relate because my garlic has all got choked out with grass as I didn't give it enough attention over winter and now I can barely distinguish between the two. Anyone know how these two can be friends? :)
Haha yeah he always has a nice perspective on things. Grass is not as friendly of a neighbor unfortunately!
Mulch heavy after planting
Yeah, mow the grasses and use the cuttings to mulch the garlic. I live in the Land of the Long Grasses, so I space my garden beds pretty far apart so that I can scythe down the walkway and leave the cuttings on the adjacent bed. Works great - grasses can be incredible biomass producers and they do incredible things for the soil, but they can definitely be hard to keep in check.
I have garlic patches thriving out in the grassy edges beyond the garden. A few years ago I was sticking bulbs in the ground everywhere to see where they liked it best, and mostly they took off. They naturalise very easily if you let them, although you may need some different expectations as they are naturally smaller, more like a wild plant of some sort, but persist year after year, and yes, it can be hard to tell the difference between the two. So I’ve made friends between the grasses and the garlic, though a natural meadow and a weedy garden patch are quite different creatures.
Okay-I could go on and on about grasses and soil, but there would be no end to that stream of thought. I hope that you are more inspired and hopeful because of this sharing of experience.
Yes, we have trouble with nut “grass” which is actually a sedge that spreads by seed and rhizomes. You can try letting it get big enough to successfully pull up by the roots/ or cutting with scissors and laying down the grass stems right around the plant “characters” you want to encourage. Diluted molasses also seemed marginally helpful in encouraging the veg plants, discouraging the nutgrass. I tried peeling and eating some of the nutgrass tubers; a lot of work for a little food. Need to experiment with different times of year.💚
This is the first growing season for a new garden I started here in Texas. A plant popped up that I didn’t recognize. Similar to your experience, there was a lot and I considered ripping it all out. Turns out it was Lambs quarters, a wonderful salad green rich in vitamins and high in calories. So glad it popped up as it’s so hard to get things like spinach and lettuces to thrive here. I’m right there with you Sean. ID your plants! You’d be amazed at who shows up to the party.
had a massive crop of purple dead nettle here in MI, first time drying and using in tea - great for seasonal allergies and pollinators loved it!
Purple dead nettle is such a nice “weed” to have. I’ve added into salves and even used it with chamomile as an eye compress for my husband. One year his allergies were really intense and his eyes got extremely red and puffy. The PDN and chamomile compress brought the inflammation down tremendously. It’s also used as an herbal tea for seasonal allergies. It’s cool that you let it stay and observed it instead of ripping it up.
Oooo, interesting. I periodically get little bits of poison ivy rash around my wrists just above my gloves - minor but annoying. this sounds worth a try.
Sounds like a really lovely and deep relationship you are building with this plant, so nice!
To your question about it being an annual or biennial, I found this info - "Purple Dead-nettle is an annual or facultative biennial (delaying reproduction to second year due to environmental conditions) member of the Mint (Lamiaceae) family."
Makes perfect sense to me!
Marvelous! What a lovely message tonight.
We primarily enjoy purple dead nettle as a first food in spring for bees, which then pollinate our early flowering berries, currant varieties, and fruit trees. Such abundance 😊
Lovely characters in all the directions!
Kansas City Missouri here…Great looking garlic field! I too have Purple Dead Nettle in abundance this growing season. First year I have seen it in quite some time. So happy to have it growing.
Just north of KC here and yep the same thing
I am currently drying a little bit of purple dead nettle that was growing next to my mini garlic patch. I'm planning to use it in a salve because of its anti-inflammatory properties
Thanks for the introduction to this new friend.
When I discovered Purple Dead Nettle in my yard, I did a little homework, and was delighted to find it is such a good medicinal plant. I pick and dry the spikes after they have bloomed for a bit. They hang and dry nicely, and when dry you can just shake out the seeds to save them. I started many plants this year and have spread them through the landscape. They were fairly limited to a couple areas, so having them in more locations will be great. I say a "weedy" field the other day and it was covered in Purple Dead Nettle. I almost fell over with amazement. I wanted to crawl across the field and harvest a ton. Must be a good year for this plant.
I’ve learned to appreciate purple dead nettle especially since I’ve started keeping bees again.
I also love purple dead nettle! I can't handle the strong taste as a tea, but I use it in tincture form for allergies. I also just think it's really pretty 😊
Last years hardneck purchased from you turned out wonderful.. Of that I planted 72 cloves for this year and it is coming up gangbusters. I think that purple stuff appeared next to 3 beds. Hopefully there will be some information from the subscribers on what it is good for.
We have garlic from you that is easily outgrowing the garlic we get from another source. Thanks as always for the great plants and info!
With plants, just as with people and other living things building community is a good thing!
Blessings for sharing.... thank you Lord for gifts and people that you send our way to grow ❤Jezusa
Dead nettle was the best companion for my raspberries now it is with the garlic I bought from you.
So great! Happy growing!
i let my deadnettle take over gently as well, the bees were all about it! i love catnip and keep it close in my guilds and veggie gardens. it seems to repel some pests like blister beetles and harlequin beetlesand last year gave such a bounty of beautiful flowers late in the season for the pollinators.
We've noticed catnip does a strong job keeping striped potato and cucumber beetle away, so very useful. Hard to manage if we let it go to seed but pretty amazing!
Looks wonderful! Sounds like the PDN is a great understory for a garlic canopy. So nice when you can do less, have more life, and harvest as much or more as you would have if you chose the plant removal method!
I eat lots of Purple Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) -- in mixed salads and mixed cooked greens. Alone, I think the flavor is too "one-note", but it complements other spring greens just great. The stems are so weak that it's easy to collect lots by simply pulling the tops as a clump and then twisting off the lower parts that are not in the best condition. They are annuals with lots of seeds. In the stage you are showing them, they are getting late in their season and may have already set seeds in the lower part of the blossom head. That makes them better for longer-cooked greens. The best quality for salads in earlier, when they first start to flower or before. They are a great winter ground cover that matures and dies out early, so they don't compete with garden plants. And the bees sure do love them!
In our region, northern part of germany, purple dead nettle is as well one of the first things to bloom and feed the bees. And it is one of our first wild spinach. We often use it for omelettes or mixed salads.
Purple dead nettle makes a great tea that helps with allergies!
Lamium purpureum makes a good tea, a bit of a "hay" taste, but refreshing! Our chickens also love it!
Thank you very much Sean! I always liked your outlook on human and plant life. I always leave my purple dead nettle to bloom and feed early pollinators in NH...everybody need to eat 🙂
Last year I planted garlic in a bed that had autumnal radicchio. The bed that had radicchio come back in it was twice as large as the bare soil garlic. I found that very interesting.
Purple dead nettle showed up in my purple asparagus patch and they are the same color. Looked like a picture moment.
So interesting to see the climate difference. Down in Maryland the deadnettle time is well past. I likely would have had the same experience the nettles with my garlic if it wasn't heavily mulched with leaves over the winter and then followed up with chopped winter Rye.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, really good information, Wishing your videos were longer I could stay in this channel for hours 😊
Glechoma hederacea, Sedum spp., Allium paradoxum, Lysimachia nummularia are good ground cover plants here, and dead nettle is another nice one to have around the trees.
That was awesome
The dead nettle showed up with the garlic in our patch as well!
Ours, too!
Great cover crop.
The best companion planting I've got going is hairy vetch. I planted a cover crop of hairy vetch and Daikon radish in a large crop plot at the far end of my property, where I usually grow things like potatoes, corn, beans, and squash. A lot of the ground is compacted and rocky just a couple inches down, and the soil varies a lot in organic matter, from nearly none to full of happy worms. I've seen lots of nitrogen nodules when I've checked the vetch roots, so it seems to be fixing nitrogen well.
I have a lot of pesky weeds and grass to deal with back there too, such as Canadian thistle. I made a few passes last year at cutting back what I didn't want, and letting the hairy vetch and radish grow as much as they wanted. The hairy vetch in particular eventually grew into a couple feet high rampaging masses of vegetation. It's rather easy to wrangle, flopping it over to smother other weeds that I just cut to smother them further. It self seeds well, and so I let most of go to seed and do it all again this year.
I'm simply clearing out circles of about 2 feet in diameter for lots of three sisters plantings and potato plantings, following up once a week or so to grab handfuls of vetch, tearing them out easily, and laying them down as mulch around my planted circles. It seems to be working great so far, and it's the lowest labor method I've found yet to keep my plantings doing well without getting swamped by weeds and grasses.
So far, I simply let it grow and do not pull it out. Now, I am motivated to experiment and explore.
We utilize beautiful pd nettle as an iron supplement tea in the spring. We leave it to cover compost piles.
Dead Nettle happened heavy and early here in Indianapolis . It was daunting… I’m a bid fan now as a companion to garlic, onion, trees and shrubs.
It's tough to work with annual seeding with the dead nettle but the alliums are just so happy with it
We don’t mow our lawn with the early appearance of PDN because we would like to make it available to early pollinators. They seem to really go for it.
That stuff sprouted up everywhere in my state this year cow pasture s and sprayed crop fields its a pain to pull as bad as creeping Charlie but our honey bees seem to love it as I'm finding out it shows up as red pollen sacs🤔
I never really noticed the purple nettle mints much until a few years ago. Scrapped together a bunch of the chop n drop, then went to town on a few corner areas with hand cutters and plopped it all together on some brick out of the pathway. Eventually it blends in like more plant coverage and an obvious dry crusty layer of chaff over that one particular patch. Winter rolled through and compressed it all. By the time everything melted it had done the compost cycle and in these early spring months, the entire cluster had EXPLODED with these Purple Mints, and acted like a surface covering the whole next season out of amusement to see what it did, a few other flowers and vines poking up around them. It's still there waiting to be scraped clean off the brick, but these purple mints have since colonized throughout other patches of the yard and allowed more of the barren patches to break through and add the extra biome and moisture it needed in the first place. I'm cool with the pioneer crop doing its thing and sealing in ground moisture, and bringing in the bugs and bird life to the scene again.
Nice allies!
I'm experimenting with creeping charlie in my garden this year. It's already pervasive in my lawn, and weeding it out of the garden is so much work. Most seedlngs have been able to poke through fine so far.
I've come to decide that creeping charlie is fine around my pond, in my lawn, and a few other places, but it's been a huge pain in my garden. It swamped my strawberries, reducing our harvest of strawberries to nearly nothing. It's nearly impossible to separate from a strawberry patch once it's established. It also gets very entrenched along edging, such as sending long roots just underneath the logs bordering our raised beds, then eventually working under them and growing in the main bed, through the wood, etc.
This year I ended up laying cardboard and wood chips over most of our garden, smothering most of our strawberries in addition to all the creeping charlie. Then I replanted a few strawberries and some raspberries through the cardboard.
For my context, creeping charlie is no longer something I tolerate in my main garden areas.
I'm so pleased with my garlic. It's always been such a reliable crop! And so easy!
I don't see much purple dead nettle here but I will nurture it if I do.
Garlic is a wonderful crop to keep in our midst :)
My garden was covered with dead nettles this year. It was everywhere. I thought my mint was everywhere, and then this stuff came in and seems to be a great spring cover crop. It's so pretty, too, with its little pink orchids at the top. So cute. It seems to have saved me from alot of bugs in the strawberry patch as well.
Always informative! Thank you.
I have a lot of creeping charlie in some of my beds, not the garlic beds. I think creeping charlie can get a bit taller than purple dead nettle. But with growing roots, this seems fine as long as the root crop has enough light and the ground is damp. I keep wanting to rip it out, but gonna be patient with it and do some experiments.
Purple nettle is called ground ivy in French.not in the ivy family either ! I have found it to be a very polite weed, shares space easily. In an open context like yours where light is not a premium I see it's z good companion to tall, skinny plants.
I sometimes crinkle it to slow it down, as light is becoming rare under my fruit trees, in an urban plot, I can't move the garden space. After spring it's soon gone.
So i've never given it much thought. Now i'm interested.
Love your wisdom observations. What an ally to the garlic! Curious to see how the ecosystem changes over time, if any more compatible friends show up.
Lovely to learn about this. I've got lots of p. deadnettle and its cousin bugleweed. Both look similar, but the bugleweed has much more flowers and more purple in the leaves. It is wonderful to see on the hillsides and to see all the pollinators visiting the flowers.
WONDERFUL!
Awesome!
The Garlic looks great 😊
May I ask the Garlic variety you used?
The Chickens would love the Purple Dead Nettle😊
That is good to know. I have been looking for a good garlic companion, and just saw some deadnettle growing around a friend’s garden so might transplant some. Perhaps other relatives like heal-all and ground ivy would work too, though the latter doesn’t need any encouragement. I am always trying to find a good companion for heal-all as well. Garlic seems to get along well with most dicots. There is even a thriving patch established beside a path, amongst the dreaded goldenrod. They will even get along fine out in the meadow with all the grasses and wildflowers as semi-wild perennials, although they are more for leaf harvest because they grow smaller bulbs.
I also eat garlic greens, which most people don’t know about. They are very good as a cooked green. I find that picking the leaves also keeps the plants larger and more vigorous than they are in regular cultivation, and they have always recovered and then some by the time I come back a week or so later. I do space them out wider than usual too so that must have an effect. In general I have harvested bulbs that may not be extraordinary but are substantial enough, so I suspect the increased vigor from “pruning” has a beneficial effect overall.
Great!!
Garlic -purple deadnettle
Lettuce - chickweed
Tomato's - what did you say? Purslane? I could not hear it very well.
Yes purslane!
I put dead nettle in a frittata, thought it was quite pleasant. I intent to do tinctures - while it still grows strong.
Awesome! I recently obtained seeds of purple dead nettle for the chicken patch (as well as chickweed), have a section currently fenced off to allow everything to establish and then gradually spread into the adjacent food forest as part of the ground cover with clover and yarrow.
I love dead nettle when she pops up in my yard and other unused areas around my home. However, I’m suspicious of her in some contexts, as I know she is truly invasive or “noxious” in a number of my local rare ecosystems. In Puget Sound where I am, Garry Oak prairie is simultaneously our most biodiverse, and also most threatened ecosystem, with only 2% of its original range being Oak Prairie still, and purple dead nettle is really invasive in those spaces, where it out-competes numerous rare native prairies species. However, given that my home is nowhere near any remnant prairie, I generally leave the dead nettle as an early bee browse, and for some early teas and greens. So definitely a very useful and lovely early season plant, but also one to keep an eye on in sensitive areas where its dominance can lead to issues.
We have tons of creeping charlie in our mulch. At first it stressed me out a bit - there's just so much of it! But I love the smell of it when its crushed or mowed, reminds me of my childhood), and it has lovely little blue flowers in spring.
I started using it recently as a "green" in compost piles: I can peel back sheets of it easily and then let it grow. It also seems to accelerate breakdown of the mulch below it, creating a moist, bioactive microclimate. As weeds go, it can get a bit unruly but in a mulch-heavy system i find its easy to rein in and makes for lovely "living pathways".
Creeping Charlie is a lovely being and yeah, a bit tough to work with! We appreciate it in planted areas that have trees and shrubs though, thats for sure!
Bravo. Beautiful instructive vidéo and nice comments
How interesting 🤔. 💖👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I’m using clover as my companion this year, I plant it in the parths and I mulch as you’ve described by mowing the paths and placing around the garlic. I’ve also tried a couple of beds where I planted it in an intercropping way with the garlic so will be interesting to see how the bulbs develop on the garlic within the two systems so far things are looking good. Glad to know that you succession planted garlic after potatoes I read that this was not a good idea but your garlic seems really healthy. Have you done this before was this the first time?
I make a salve out of purple dead nettle.
Good for bruises.
A quick search showed up this plant as also called Henbit which we called it growing up. Twas brought from Europea as a chicken feed hence the name Henbit. Unfortunately, it is a very invasive annual producing as many a 2,000 seed per plant. But it is certainly one of the nicest, gentlest invasives and is here to stay ironically much like we European descendants.
Henbit and Dead Nettle are different plants. The leaves of Henbit are round and ruffled. Dead Nettle is spear like.
@@missionfailure That's one of the problems in using common names. The Lamium purpureum in his garlic field has long been just "one of the henbits" in the same way that many Amaranthus species are "one of the pigweeds". For example, in the classic Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants by Elias and Dykeman (1982), the L. purpureum is called "Henbit" rather than "Deadnettle". On iNaturalist, this plant is called "Red Deadnettle", while the L. amplexicaule that has the round and ruffled leaves is called "Henbit Deadnettle". If we would call every plant by only its scientific name, we would all be better off in precision of identification. But using only scientific names creates a whole different problem, lol! Either way, they are both great eating for spring greens!
Garlic does not like any competition. It might be growing now but it will effect the size of your garlic bulbs. Your garlic also appears to be too close to each other which will also affect the size of your garlic heads.
Garlic looks fantastic. What kind of spacing do you use? Looks dense.
According to a different video, they’re 6”-8” apart.
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Lovely offer, thank you!
Purple dead nettle is a lot like dandelions in the way it fills in some of the missing ecological niche of native spring ephemerals. Certainly better than bare soil, though I can’t say I’ve tried it in salads myself.
there is no “missing ecological niche” of native spring ephemerals lol
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The title is companion to garlic. So, what does he talk about? Potatoes!
I'm assuming you're laughing along and enjoying that as I did. I appreciate the way he allows us to follow along such meanderings, as all these connections between things are what it's all about. Knowing that he's using potatoes as a first planting in new fields and then following with this mix of garlic and deadnettle and how it fits into the bigger plans is very informative to me.
I seem to have Cleavers mixed in with Dead Nettles in and around my garlic. I don't worry too much about them interfering with the garlic as much as I do Monkey Grass. Cleavers is also edible and is excellent for the lymphatic/immune system and the kidneys. What I learned from experience that DOES interfere with garlic growth is mint and I no longer plant garlic in certain raised beds where mint covers the pathways outside the beds and grows very close to them and would take over if I let it. If mint gets a chance to grow within the garlic, it will stunt its growth.
For Purple Dead Nettle recipes , look up those keywords on a search engine As you know people make teas and tinctures but I've also seen pesto recipes and some people saute the leaves in butter and mix them in with scrambled eggs. It is often added to salads and soups.
purple nettle and chickweed is the first, the white nettle second and now we have purslane all over the place! uh oh!
Lovely video! I wish I had it your way. Dead nettle grows very strong in my garden in NZ. And can Totally smother our garlic especially early in the spring. We are struggling to grow garlic at all these days. With rust coming early. Maybe we need some new varietys. Any advice welcome.❤
Sorry you are having hard times, not sure how to be helpful. Things are definitely more challenging each year!
I make a tea with it
delishes
Wonderful!
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Deadnettle came on strong here too - it got too thick and I think it started holding too much moisture around the lower necks of garlic and rotted some out. I pulled and thinned some of the deadnettle and I think the airflow is helping.
I agree that deadnettle isn't bad, but assuming that weeds are moving north- alehoof often moves into deadnettle spaces and it's allelopathic and beastly difficult to get rid of once it's established so it's a good idea to keep an eye out to make sure it's not moving in.
That plant is around us for sure. Creeping Charlie is how we know of it
This must just be a great year for garlic. Mine is looking the best it has in years. I had green beans in the bed just prior to planting, don't know if that did it, or i that i put sifted compost on the bottom of the row, and then to dressed with the same after planting. Mine are heavy mulched so not many friends.
First crop was potatoes, second was garlic, what would you consider planting after the garlic?
I love what y'all do, except for the electric aspect. Electric tools have their place, but mowers and anything bigger are not ready; the waste they produce exceeds the waste produced by gas/diesel powered equipment.
Great video as always and very informative! I have not used deadnettle in anyway yet but it is common in my garden along with chickweed. Do you know the name of your electric push mower, I am looking for a mower with a bag to collect the grass clippings. Thx!
Have you ever encountered allium rust with your garlic cultivation? Do you have any thoughts on prevention or dealing with it?
Garlic and onions are 2 things my local squirrells and ground hog have not raided
Im taking a chance with purple amaranth
I hope the dont eat all the early leaves
A buddy from mexico was big on growing beans for nitrate in the soil 😊
I’ve got creeping Charlie that has been among my strawberries and so on without issue for a few years. This year however, it has become competitive with asparagus as well as the strawberries. I’m not sure what has allowed it to out-compete the crop plants, but it has definitely become unwelcome in it’s 4th year in my garden. I’ve been struggling to pull it all. Be careful of the apparently innocuous “weed”, just in case it turns into an unwelcome monster when conditions are just perfect for it to take over….
I hear you. Creeping Charlie can be a really tough competitor :(
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Are the seeds in burrs? I had a plant just like this, and in the end it was full of sticky round burrs.
Is this the same thing as "bugleweed'? It's that gentle?
Dense garlic planting; do you thin for spring garlic?
No. Soil fertility is high and this is full sun, they willbe able to size up
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💚How do we work with them, so we can be friends too. 😊
6:18 I hate that plant, I had to pull four pounds of it out of the flower beds where it killed most of my mother's chrysanthemums.
It got so crazy, I took a clipping down to the library to scour the books for its identity and the librarian there used to be a DNR Officer and identified immediately!
I tried to use store bought garlic and nothing come up it was a waste next yr im going to go ahead and get seed off the interwebs
You know ideally you need to buy organic garlic right? Don't by any means get the white bulbs that come in purple plastic mesh bags from China. They are soaked in bleach supposedly. Also it helps if you soak the cloves in compost tea overnight (or at least a few hours). "Keene Garlic" has some great tips on growing garlic. They also sell many different varieties for both growing and eating and can recommend which ones would do best in your growing zone/area. I have been buying garlic for November plantings from them for 3 years now. This fall upcoming will be the 4th year and I have gotten 100% germination and full harvests every year in June. So if you want great garlic harvests, I recommend Keene Garlic.
I’m wondering if anyone has ever transplanted or propagated it? A bunch showed up in back and I want to spread it to front lawn area
I'm sure folks have, I suspect you can save seed when it dries/dies back and scatter that where you'd like to see it pop up... Wait until fall and scatter then (would be my guess/intuition, but look for more info!)
I my gosh, dominate is an understatement. Now I know it's all good in my yard. Bonus.
Love all the characters you have growing
Edible, apparently.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_purpureum