finding comfrey

cheers for the replies folks..i genuenly thought it grew in abundence like a weed  


p.s cheers SnooziSuzi.......i'm in fence houses,i'll ask about here first,there is loads of allotments...if i have no luck i'll take you up on you kind offer  

pps.how often do you use nettle/comfrey tea on your plants...ie tomato.thanx

We've got it growing wild all over our allotment site, just like the weeds! Good time to look for it though as it is just coming into flower, small an purple, the flowers that is also got bocking  14 from eBay last year all 3 plants came back this spring and doing well

Certainly looks like it, except my flowers are more blue, but I don't know if I've got bocking 14 or not.  It certainly doesn't spread all over the place.  Just grows in the spot I put it in.

We've got it growing wild all over our allotment site, just like the weeds! Good time to look for it though as it is just coming into flower, small an purple, the flowers that is also got bocking  14 from eBay last year all 3 plants came back this spring and doing well

so the best time to make it is when they come into flower?..cheers for the tip 

Looks like comfrey to me too. Great on the compost to speed up the rotting process also good to soak you feet in after a long day on the Lottie with some mint at other herbs in there to make it smell nice

A few years ago, the 'Estate' by us ( that's landed Gentry 'Estate', rather than housing ) planted up 'umpteen acres' with it.....I suspect as a 'green manure' ?  Being 'Gentry' I don't think their Farm Manager quite realised the long term implications of 100's of acres of Comfrey, 10 years down the line.  Every hedgerow, bye-way & verge now has great "stands" of the stuff.

I didn't know it was Ebay-able........