Comfrey: how to use, harvest and propagate by Morag Gamble
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2017
- Morag Gamble shares her love of Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) - a perennial multi-functional plant that is so valuable in her permaculture system.
Morag introduces some of the many uses of comfrey and demonstrates how to simply divide a comfrey plant to have many cuttings to add to your garden, or share with your friends.
In her own garden, Morag uses comfrey as an edge plant, to stabilise gardens, to activate compost, to add nutrients when making a no-dig garden, to make a simple natural fertiliser, and to self-mulch and feed a fruit tree.
Morag refers to her previous TH-cam clip about how to make comfrey fertiliser. The link is: • How to Make Comfrey Te...
At home, Morag also makes a comfrey salve. Morag chats with her daughter, Maia - a budding herbalist, about a couple of the medicinal uses of comfrey. She has written a blogpost about how to make an easy cold-extracted comfrey oil which is the basis of the salve. You can find it here: ourpermaculturelife.com/2015/... Watch out for another film soon about how to make the salve.
Comfrey is found around the world and so easy to use and propagate. Morag recommends that every permaculture garden integrate this wonderful plant.
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A medicine cabinet indeed. Best things for our health are sunshine, fresh air, gardening and healthy produce. Great video.
Loved this. So happy to see old healing wisdoms preserved and shared. ❤
A friend sent me a comfrey from California. I'm in Montana and wasn't sure it would grow here. It is happy in poor soil. I wanted to plant more and now I know how, thanks to you Morag. I'm loving your channel.
Exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you.
Oh, What a lovely video and your voice is so soothing. I have been gardening for 40 years and have never grown Comfrey! What the heck? Cannot believe I didn't know about this amazing and multi purposed plant from the gods... Thank you
Thanks, Morag. Great video. Plus, you two were very cute. My heart melted
😊 thank you
Comfrey saved my very burnt hand Dr's wanted to do a skin graft but i used comfrey instead for two weeks you wouldn't even know i had my hand caught in a dry cleaning press
how did u use comfrey?
I read similar testimony from someone else. Keeping some on hand now as a staple. TY for sharing that.
What are you trying to say? Doctors should switch to comfrey for severe burn victims too instead of scientifically proven treatments like skin grafting?
@@michaellovely8751 No, she literally did not say that. I more reasonable conclusion might be to wonder if we should have a few properly set up scientific studies to either prove or disprove this claim.
Yes, doctors should def incorporate comfrey into burn solutions.
An attractive woman who gardens barefooted while wearing a dress and at the same time teaching other's how to save the planet!!! Every school should require their female students (the males may already be watching) to watch one of your videos every day. Thank you ma'am.
I’m inspired and filled with love that I stumble across your channel. I even became highly emotional. You’re channel has provided me with so much confidence that I am excitedly looking forward to starting my own homestead in late 2019. I’m currently working towards location, saving to purchase something, and while I’m build my skills and knowledge. Therefore, a million times thank you for simplifying and sharing your passion. Pammie from Chicago Illinois
Pam--I hope you did start a homestead!
Hello from Chattanooga, Tennesee, USA! First time I have found you and find you have a very peaceful demeanor, you make what you teach interesting, and look at you bare-footed! I subscribed and look forward to more lessons. ( I ordered comfrey and it came but isn't in-ground yet.)
Love the idea of your steeping bucket at the end. I don't have any Comfrey but could certainly do with with other weeds, thank you for the idea! Your daughter is so sweet and how nice that you are raising her to know how to have an appreciation of gardening and living with plants.
Thanks for all your videos, very well spoken 👍
Love your bare foot digging! Great info thank you!
Thank you for this wonderful video on Comfrey ✌🙂🌱
Fantastic! I had no idea comfrey was so useful in the garden!
Great information, thanks for taking time to share.
Thanks for participating, Maya! Good to hear you love nature too!
Great video. Thanks 💗
Great educational video. Thanks for sharing.
A border is such a great idea! I've been placing them for mulching and to hold back grasses from my fruit trees, but placing them along pathway and driveway edges is going to help so much!
This was super helpful! Thank you!
Morag, dear Lady, I love your videos especially about Comfrey, AND I love you so much for going to all this work and trouble to share your abundant gardening knowledge!!
I love that you are a bare hands and feet gardener. I am too :-). People don't understand that dirt is good for you. Thanks for a great video.
Squawks and Barks I'm a barefoot/hands gardener as well. But this year I've had sooooooo many spiders in my garden...I've been wearing shoes and gloves. 😊
Squawks and Barks I adore to go bare feet but my allotment has so much bramble and thorn I'd be in agony! Hopefully one day I can irradiate it!😃
Indians never went barefoot nore did your great great grand parents unless they wanted fungus problems.stop pushing wrong pot head theories and no fact people can get sick and die.
ashy slashy fungal problems with your feet come from your gut! Candida or too much sugar in your diet causes what we call athletes foot. Got b-all to do with going barefoot
i guess you know better then me im just a micro biologist.please do some research on what you write in public domains, since there are people who just might think you know what your talking about.and you do not by far.
Love your works, Thanks Morag
Thank you dear lady for the nice video. Very informative.
Thank you
I just loved that...
I have learnt what would take me years to learn.
Your daughter is very smart and adorable.
Morag, thank you for your video. I have a huge comfrey plant in my garden and I wasn't quite sure how to use it. I have been on a journey into permaculture and I love learning as much as i can.
using a diggingfork inbare feet heroic
Haha
Seeing that was my moment of relief that I’m not alone lol!!
Feet tougher than woodpecker lips!
Just found your channel and THIS! We have 20 comfrey crowns coming to us and the end of the month. I needed this info! Thank you!!!
Excellent video... Thank you. Learning about Comfrey and plan on planting a bunch this year and begin to utilize it. Will be looking at more of your videos soon
Thank you again for your videos.
Thank you I have been wanting to plant comfrey but wasn't sure how to propagate it 🐝
Blessings
Gail 🐝💕
Wow this is amazing💚🌱
Thank you Morag, I've learned alot from you,, appreciated.
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Great video. Thanks, Morag. It surely is a blessing to have your daughter living the dream with you.
Love your videos. Learn a lot from you
Love your generous nature and the permaculture community you've grown around you. Wonderful.. thank you
Thank you Rhonda for writing.
Recently used comfrey to bring down the swelling from a wasp sting. Very great plant.
Great video, I've watched many on comfrey and I think you're is my favorite.
Such a beautiful video - I am so excited to be a new gardener and heard about Comfrey. So wonderful to have your daughter involved in the garden also.
Such a beautiful and smart daughter!
Hi Erika.
love your videos, thanks
New follower. I have comfrey growing for a 2nd year now. I dried some and have it stored in a Mason jar. Glad to hear how you use it.
We love comfrey!
Impressive, hard work and effort.
Thank you! I learned so much from your video. I am planting my first two plants and look forward to my garden taking off with gorgeous, tasty veggies. Btw, your daughter is a brilliant little beauty.
Amazing knowledge! We love our garden and the joy it brings for our kids too.
That's just wonderful. Involving our kids is so important.
Starting my closed looped comfrey system tomorrow and this video helped thanks 🙏🏻
I'm glad this video helped! Good luck!
Thank you to one of my subscribers for directing me to this video! I have been using comfrey around my suburban homestead and am happy to learn more about it. BanDana Gramma has subscribed!
Welcome!
Love your videos, Morag! Always calming and pleasant. 😊
I've also propagated comfrey with about a 90% success rate from flower stem cuttings! Each piece about 2 inches, planted vertically with the "up" end "up", half in and half out of the soil.
I like doing this during bolting season, because I'm hacking back the flower stalks anyway. 😊
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing.
Oh Morag, thank you so much for making this video about how to regrow comfrey- this is valuable information and I will take your advice and use it with my own comfrey plants. You were right about comfrey growing back and being a hardy plant- it did grow back in my garden, I was so happy to see new leaves shooting through the mulch. I live in Gippsland Victoria.
🤗USA,Florida🤗
What a lucky girl Maia is to have such a lovely knowledgeable mum!!!great idea I am going to start a border too...thank you Morag for the inspiration...
Thanks Chantal - Maia is really thriving - she’s going to be featured in the next PIP magazine about her work in starting the global permayouth.org
Hey guys great channel love your garden so lovely thanks for sharing just want to show some love and respect👍🌹
Thank you so much for these videos of what the plant is and how to grow it for free, how to harvest it and how to use it for different needs and how it helps.
I ordered seeds from Ireland, and have it planted in zone 6b. I see 3 small leaves forming. I hope it grows well.....
Thank you very much for this information 🌈🦄😘🌸💕
Thank you - you're welcome!
Great presentation! Thanks 😀
Thanks
Great video.shared.💚
Great info.
Love all your videos...I place armloads of leaves between rows to keep down weeds and get the deep minerals you mentioned into the soil as it decays and dries...but one can easily get a comfrey farm as you can never dig it up entirely and move it.... One grower told me the roots can go down 30 feet so make sure you plant it only where you're sure you want it forever.....it is an amazing healing plant as allantoin makes skin cells regenerate FAST. in poultises and salves as you mentioned.
Yay Barefeet gardener club! ♥
So wonderfully helpful ~ Family's who garden together bring me such joy.
Wishing you all much happiness and health.
Thank you so much.
You are absolutely gorgeous Morag....love watching and learning from your videos...especially concerning comfrey......I am growing it for the first time this year (Austin, Texas)...God bless you and your family
Hey David, do you have comfrey now? I live in Austin too and have just found out about comfrey in my healing research.
Finally figured it out. Morag looks like Linda Evans!
Omg I love watching u, I’m so excited I discovered you
Thank you & welcome!
Entertaining and informative video. Thanks. I grow comfrey and I'm impressed both by its prolific production and the amount of (laboratory analyzed) nutrients deliver in the foliage. However, I'm not convinced that making and applying comfrey tea adds anything of value to my garden. But the extra effort does no harm. I get at least five "crops" a year to add as a mulch and addition to my compost. That's the bit value to me as comfrey seems to be quite prolific in my semi-desert type of soil. Cheers and thanks again for posting.
Great video!
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Another great video, thank you. I have planted comfrey around all of my fruit trees here in NZ and have had great success simply dividing the plants as you have shown. I've now got masses of it from just one little plant bought about 2 months ago! It's so useful yet never seems to become a nuisance.
Thank you.
New subscriber here from 🇬🇧 Thanks for a brilliant informative video on Comfrey
Well done Maya (Sorry, not sure how you spell your name). Love that the two of you are sharing your knowledge together.
Thank you amazing!
I really want to thank you for your work in teaching permaculture and making it sooo accessible on youtube for free
Thank you ! I wish you all the best.
Hello! My name is David Argel. I'm from Mexico City and Im starting my garden. I've seen a lot of your videos and they have been really helpful. I really like your work. You have such a nice voice, generous and calm vive. Thanks for sharing your experience and information. Te mando un abrazo a ti y a tu familia.
Lovely...
Thanks. I ordered comfrey roots from Amazon. They were dry and I put them in water for a day and now I have just planted them.
I hope they sprout and grow well, and then you can hand cuttings to friends.
Thank you for this great channel. I've been binge watching your videos for the last couple of days and learning so much new stuff. So a big thank you and a wave from the other side of the globe as I live in the Netherlands.
Hello and welcome! Thanks for writing.
I have been on a Morag Marathon here in Quebec! I could just have listen to her all the time! Besides being so informative her voice is sooo soothing! We feel her good soul! Keep it up for us please!! We want more! You are giving tricks to make our life easier!!!💃
Hello in Quebec! Thanks for writing!
Thank you!! USA, Florida🤗🤗
You can also take one of the longer roots and cut it into several pieces. Each piece will likely sprout and become a new plant.
Wow , digging the garden in your bare feet.
Thank you so much. I have several five foot tall comfrey mounds. Twice each summer it grows so high that the wind blows it out in a circle. I cut it at the ground level and within a week it starts over. I have given lots of it to friend but have never really understood how to handle it. Last year I kept it up with stakes and rope but felt that was no solution to keeping it safe till I could figure out what to do with it. I've known for decades how wonderful it could be but just didn't know what to do. [always have too many projects going on]. I heard it made good compost, I've known for decades that it made a good salve [which is why I was so glad to receive some from a friend so many years ago]. I love to look at the healthy leaves and flowers. Somewhere I read that it was toxic to eat or drink so I settled for just enjoying how it looked and grew. I'm am so thrilled to find your video. I will follow you directions and search for more of your videos. THANK YOU SO MUCH. And I too am amazed at your bare feet. How brave you are. I have chickens and although I clean up after them CONSTANTLY, I still would not be brave enough to walk barefoot. I have a jungle of weeds that I am sure could be useful and delicious but have yet to learn them all. I will watch all of your videos.
Hi Deborah.
Thanks!
I grow comfrey. thanks for the tips
Hi Tiffany.
Ate Comfrey throughout my pregnancy and walked everywhere not realising the health benefits of Liver cleansing, glowing skin, hair, strong teeth and bones and a blast of energy! After 9mths lose 15kilos and a healthy baby boy. Comfrey yum😋
thanks for sharing
Another video here in yt says it will damage your liver is toxic 🤔 I’m confused help!
i’m
OH your daughter is a doll xoxo love from NSW :)
Morag, I wished I lived closer to you so could learn from you
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome. I just bought a Bocking 14 cutting.
You should be able to get many many more from it once it is grown a bit.
Great presentation ... Wish you were my Neighbor !!
I eat it Raw ,sometimes cook in stir fry . its good for asthma and Respiratory and much more ! Great vid Thank you
man thought it was poisonous !
please share more about using it and its benefits
Wow. Very harmful for liver when ingested.
@Sunrise Boy and i bet your kids are healthy as the can be.
Si have been eating the leafs for years! I also dry it and make it into a powder and use it in soups and stew all winter!
So do I. I dry the leaves and powder them. It adds a nice chlorophyll and protein supplement to my breads.
My chickens eat it by the pound.
Would love to see a podcast on making your comfrey salve🤞
Some years ago I foolishly decided to try skipping again (as an unfit octogenarian) and I tore a chunk out of my Achilles tendon. Six months later my doctor finally sent me to a physiotherapist who was amazed that the tear disappeared within two weeks using Comfrey and olive oil as a salve twice a day. I'm sold!
I've used comfrey tea for years. I also chop and drop it as mulch. I use Russian Bocking 14 with an NPK of 1.8-0.5-7.0. I brew it in a 32 gallon black garbage can. Let it sit for 3 months to a year. I don't strain it, I just take the sprinkler off the can so I don't clog up the cans. I also use fermented plant juice made from comfrey which I foliar spray. I use only 1/4 teaspoon for 5 gallons. It's very powerful stuff. I also make lacto microorganisms which is also fermented. I combine it with the fermented plant juice and spray it every two weeks. It works pretty well. The only other addition I use for supplemental fertilization is some fast acting bone meal . I will use it when I start to see flowers forming on my tomatoes and peppers. Love it! Blessings to you. This was a wonderful video.
thank you
You’re welcome
Thank you for the video 😊
I was wondering if I should plant my comfrey in full sun or shade?
Amazing knowledge, thanks for sharing auntie!
I’ve got three comfrey just over a year, thinking it’s time to split up! 2 will keep multiplying along sq acre fence line as ALL NEIGHBORS USE ROUND UP 😢 and 1 much happier plant smack dab in the middle of our orchard surrounded by vetiver perennial peanuts 34 fruit trees hope 1 comfrey will make it to each! ❤❤❤
Sounds wonderful. Happy growing
Hello.. you just gained a new subscriber.. Excellent demo video ... and I love the fact that you are so up close with nature and also get your little one involved too. I am planning a big farm in my Native D R Congo and comfrey is up there number 2 on my list of must have plants..
Best wishes with your project
@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife thank you....🙏🏻
NO shoes....i love it!
Morag you amaze me with how you use forks and shovels bare-foot. I can't even dig my ground with shoes as it's compacted. But I do love walking on grass barefoot. I think our feet become over sensitive wearing shoes and socks.
But do you have missing toes like this lady?
@@throbinho ha ha! Funny!