3 varieties of comfrey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2021
- Comfrey is a well known permaculture plant, and with good reason.
It can be used as a living mulch, as a chop and drop crop, and can be made into an amazing liquid plant feed. It's an excellent fodder crop for grazers, and is a great nectar source for bees.
We grow 3 different varieties of comfrey here at the croft. Each has its own niche, and slightly different uses.
In this video I demonstrate how we use each variety.
*When I'm talking about the Bocking 14 variety I misspeak and call it self fertile. It's actually a self sterile variety.
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Finally I find something really useful on TH-cam! THANK YOU.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture I've been growing it for a long time and never thought about using it around trees. As you show, it's very easy to propagate so producing enough plants will be easy. I don't recall L D Hills mentioning that in his book on comfrey - unusual for him to miss a trick!
Recently discovered your channel and am now binge watching the whole lot. Really helpful stuff. Thanks pal.
Thanks, glad you enjoy them.
Love our comfrey plants! A friend gave us a couple plants. I've duplicated them hundreds of times around our smallholding.
I can certainly tell where the ground is fertile and where it isn't by how big the comfrey gets.
I just step mine down when the flower stalks are blooming. It regrows from the center, and I step it down in another direction. So, I use it on fence lines to keep the grass down.
And eventually it winds up on my compost pile for extra nutrient for the veg beds. :)
And you didn't even get into the medicinal uses! :)
That's the fasted and simplest way of propagating comfrey I've seen!
It really is hard as nails! A friend took some root cuttings, forgot about them, and left them on a wall half the summer, dessicating. She found them in the autumn and planted them, and they grew again the following spring.
That video is very helpful
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Thanks!
Very interesting. I've recently planted fruit trees and currants, at the moment the comfrey I planted looks tiny, so I hope it will be big enough to divide next spring then. Also chop and drop before then too. thanks for the heads up.
It's generally a good idea to not divide it or chop it during its first year, but once it's established it's hard as nails, and tolerates all kinds of abuse.
Ah, right, will do, thanks
Watching from Australia and learning a lot from this channel... what part of Wales are you from NP ?
Fantastic, glad you're enjoying it!
I was born in Aberystwyth on the west coast, and lived a little south of there.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Awesome ... we do get around 🏴
Hello !
Does the regular comfrey have more "rounded" leaves ? I spotted two "intruders" with different, larger and rounder leaves, betwin my bocking 14 plantings :p
And i do remember to have bought regular comfrey plant a long time ago...
I've not noticed a great deal of difference in the cultivars I have, but the regular one I use I foraged locally. It's still possible you just have a different cultivar.
Can you get seedless dwarf comfrey
Not as far as I'm aware, unfortunately.
nive to know where ur hse is and the bank and the track etc thanks for wasting my credit !
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