[djbnat]

Hi all
Read on the forum that comfrey can be placed underneath potatoes to give them a good start.  I inherited some comfrey with my recently acquired allotment but know little about its benefits.  How much do I use? Do I just strip the leaves or is it mixed in liquid? Questions, questions......... I need to lay down  :?

Regards
DJB

[GrannieAnnie]

Hi DJ, you can just strip the leaves and put them under things like potatoes etc.  You can also add them and their flowers to the compst heap as it acts as a compost activator, and you can also soak the leaves in water for a couple of weeks and dilute the liquid as it can be quite strong (smelly too!!).

Here is a link to John's wonderful comfrey article which we have all read at some time.

http://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetables_and_herbs/Comfrey_The_Wonder_Plant.php

[WG.]

Start here : http://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetables_and_herbs/Comfrey_The_Wonder_Plant.php

[WG.]

Ooo - you are quick today GA.

One word of warning djbnat - is you are using the leaves in any way which buries them, be sure to wilt first ... it has an amazing tendency to regrow from the bottoms of the stalks.

[djbnat]

Perfect - thanks for the very prompt responses.  Live a day, learn a fact.  It never ceases to amaze me the level of help offered on this forum.  Superb.

[WG.]

One last thing - do not try to dig up your comfrey plant since every piece of broken root will regrow.

[GrannieAnnie]

We were only a minute apart again WG!!!!!

[leeky]

i think you are the same person!  


i must get some comfrey on the go.

[Aidy]

or in the same room :?:

[GrannieAnnie]

i think you are the same person!  


Don't be silly, I don't like whisky (but don't tell WG that!!!!) shhhh

Richy, how can we be in the same room when I'm in Lincolnhsire and WG is in Scotland?

[Aidy]

Grannie, I have booked you in for eyes to be examined    surley you can see i am far more cuddly than richie  although your locals are different you may of done that when u registered :!:

[GrannieAnnie]

Sorry Aidy, that's the second time I've written the wrong name down, its my brain that's the problem, not my eyes!!!!    

Anyway, I thought you wern't talking to me, I asked a chilli question and mentioned you by name, but you never spoke to me  :cry:  :cry:

but I've just looked at the post again, and it was under cross pollination rather than chillies!!!!    

[Bagpuss]

I've just bought some comfrey as it seems to be the magic ingredient to compost etc, but wondered if I should grow it in a large pot as it sounds like it is such a vandal when it gets going.  What do you think?

[WG.]

I've just bought some comfrey as it seems to be the magic ingredient to compost etc, but wondered if I should grow it in a large pot as it sounds like it is such a vandal when it gets going.  What do you think?

It will fare badly in pots since it has a very deep tap root.   It is not a vandal; it is merely big.   Just don't try to dig it up.

2ft spacing either way in a permanent bed, full sun preferred, partial shade tolerated.

[Aidy]

now now Grannie you should know I would never not talk to you    must admit that there are some good answers to posts that hit the nail on the head and so me thinks whats the point in saying the same thing.