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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: cc on September 29, 2021, 23:45

Title: Comfrey
Post by: cc on September 29, 2021, 23:45
Decided to dig up some and move them. Of course a lot of them grew back. Kept some of the roots to grow more for my new location. A spot that I will never use for anything else...... The grass verge by the side of the road. Looking like I will have a decent harvest next year. Should I take of some of the soil and put them in and then put the soil back? They are ready to cut at the same time that the garden is fully planted. I have other comfrey plants for comfrey tea. Thinking maybe just compost them. Either way picture supplied
Title: Re: Comfrey
Post by: Russell Atterbury on September 30, 2021, 15:34
Doesn't modern thinking have comfrey tea as something of a no, no?
Title: Re: Comfrey
Post by: mumofstig on September 30, 2021, 16:26
Doesn't modern thinking have comfrey tea as something of a no, no?
For humans, it is not recommended - but comfrey tea is also what we call liquid fertiliser made from comfrey.. similar to nettle tea.
Title: Re: Comfrey
Post by: jezza on September 30, 2021, 16:37
Hello keep an eye out for a little man on a quad bike with a sprayer on the back spraying verges and signs ,in my area he has  sprayed 30 lavenders a conifer hedge and a charity plant stall to date  jezza
Title: Re: Comfrey
Post by: Russell Atterbury on September 30, 2021, 17:28
Dumb of me mumofstig. Of course cc meant that. And I can think of a few things to do with jezza's quad bike man.....all of them too nasty to mention here.
Title: Re: Comfrey
Post by: Yorkie on September 30, 2021, 21:02
I'd be nervous about the car exhaust fumes and particles getting deposited onto the comfrey leaves, into the comfrey tea, and thus onto edible crops when you apply the comfrey liquid fertiliser.