Mullein: heal the earth with cowboy toilet paper

[paul wheaton]

This might be my best video yet. 

While the focus is on how it will turn gravel/rock/dirt into soil, there is a lot covered about it's uses as a poor man's medicine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4putIxHsNCk

[Sassy]

Interesting, Paul...  we have a lot of mullen.  I used to pull it up - it was growing & spreading on our roof garden.  It is quite a fantastic plant when you look at it.  Kept asking people what the name of the plant was, finally found out a couple years ago.  So now I have some more growing near one of my rose garden areas.   The leaves are very soft.

We have another plant that is very much like the mullen you featured but the leaves are darker green & shiny.  They grow up to 6ft or more & have yellow flowers.  When the flowers finish, they form a round, rather tough seed pod full of little black seeds.  The plants become a little bit spiky when they stop flowering.  Deep roots.  Would you happen to know what plant that is?  It spreads everywhere.  Looks a lot like mullen.

What I need to do it take a picture. 

Good video!

[paul wheaton]

We get folks posting pictures of odd plants all the time out at permies.com.  Post away!