Question for clever ones from a idiot!

Balders - funny that because I'm suspicious that comfrey is likely to start growing along the access way between the two gates to the allotment along the fence line next year as a resource for those that can identify it.

Believe it or not I'm the only one on our allotment that grows comfrey and uses it.

I usually suggest Newbies ask an existing allotment holder for a "root of Bocking 14" ...

Quote from: cadalot on October 28, 2014, 12:29

Believe it or not I'm the only one on our allotment that grows comfrey and uses it.

... has a queue formed yet? 

Nope, my Comfrey Patch is Bocking 14. The lady on plot 5 has some growing and after making tea once could not stand the smell so she adds to compost of feeds to the chickens she has now attempted to dig out when she put a pond in and surprise surprise it keeps growing back. 

Confrey has become quite widespread on our site in the last couple of years.
When I took on my plot 2 years ago there wasn't much knowledge about comfrey.

_ Actually our site has a few permaculture plots and a few open-minded old-boys so I’m not really claiming it was down to me. Though I seem to be the only one encouraging its appearance in hedges and along pathways....

Pip pip,
Balders

Quick thought -- when you use lime and fertilizers etc in outside plots much is lost to rain etc over the year so it does not build up in the soil. In greenhouses and polytunnels just be a bit cautious as there is no rain and much less water goes thro the soil so ph and other soil characteristics can be far greatly affected by even small amounts of additives so go more lightly than on open plots. Otherwise I agree about compost and comfrey etc. I double dig and mix in compost across a third of my polytunnel and greenhouse beds every year and rotate crops but I don't change the soil.
Make good use in winter by growing spring cabbage for example and whenever you can grow beans or peas eg dwarf beans early and late in the season to benefit the soil just as in open plot rotations.
Enjoy
R

Next year I going to grow lots of green manure and if I don't get to dig it in I shall fill my daleks up with it