[prakash_mib]

Has anybody tried it.
I read articles about comfreys grow on stream/brook/river banks. I just want to ramble along one and collect enough (well sort of ) for couple of goes.
have you done this?

[prakash_mib]

or probably I will go for nettle hunt 

[Swing Swang]

Aside from the legal implications of uprooting a plant from the wild, you'll probably dig up something that will self seed all over the place. Buy or beg a named, sterile strain.

SS

[Puenktchen]

Hi

As long as you are not uprooting the plant (which is also quite difficult as they have very strong and thick tap roots), collecting leaves is I think not a problem (only at the moment you will have no luck, there are hardly any leaves out yet). I found them on loamy (or clayey) ground on river banks or on or near pastures which moist and rich soil. I have also seen them in fens. But they are not everywhere. You have to search for the plants. But once you found a location, they are normaly quite abundant.

[Plot22]

There is a good supply on comfrey plants which I collect while walking my dogs.  Whip off some leaves, stuff them in a dog poo bag (unused) and put them in my water butt & compost heap.

[Swing Swang]

Mis-understood 'collect enough' - thought 'dig-up collect' rather than 'pick-leaves collect'.

SS