[sawnee]

Can anyone describe comfrey roots?
Do they look like dead wood(but alive inside),not very bendy and a bit like tap roots ? :?
Sorry, I should have taken a piccy but it hasn't stopped raining here so didnt fancy going down to the plot and digging a bit up.
The reason I ask is, the bit I have been digging had been covered with a sheet for a while so there was no top growth, but I know there was some there before being covered. :roll:

[woodburner]

There's at least two types of comfrey, one with fibrous roots and one with tap roots, I don't know which is the one that was tested and developed for ferilising, but you clearly have the tap root sort. Less popular as a garden plant as it spreads and because of it's taproot, is hard to dig up.

I doubt that there's really very much difference in the various varieties used for liquid fertiliser as even the original wild type was good, that's why it was developed.

It's possible that you have something else there, like horseradish, but as you know there was comfrey, that's probably it.
Why did you cover it?

[sawnee]

It doesnt smell so dont think it is H/R

[richyrich7]

Bung it in a pot it will soon grow if it's comfrey, easiest way to propagate is by root cuttings, cut it into 1 1/2" lengths lay them on their sides in a tray of compost & sand 50:50 mix cover with more compost mix, keep damp and they will soon shoot  

[gobs]

Sawnee, I wouldn't bother and wonder about this one at all. Carry on, brave, whatever roots you remove, comfrey will be back.

[Caretaker]

I have a small patch of Comfrey at the bottom of the allotment last year but now it is a quarter way up the plot and 5 to 6 feet high.
I am making Comfrey tea with it, but thinks it may take over soon.
I call it the wild end.
Sorry but haven't a clue what the roots look like.

[peterjf]

all my CUMFREY is growing around 3 sides of my compost heap , i

deal growing place, the little goodness that they use is well worth the amount i get from each plant ,

 i usually get 4-5 kilos every year, cumfrey tea for everything i grow , usually i get 180 gallons ,

i place an onion bag full of chopped cumfrey into a blue  tub (45 galls) fill with water and leave it for a month ,

dipping the onion bag into the water to infuse the cumfrey into the water OVER THE PERIOD OF A MONTH,

FREE NATURAL GROWING FERTILISER

[sawnee]

Sawnee, I wouldn't bother and wonder about this one at all. Carry on, brave, whatever roots you remove, comfrey will be back.

good thinking Gobs
next time I find some I will put it in a pot and see what happens( probably giant hogweed :shock: )

[muntjac]

comfrey is a tuber .... the tap root ... let it grow and then cut back to just a couple stalks every time and then it will see the winter through and come again