Just got my comfrey out of the mailbox! I ordered 20 cuttings, they look great and I can't believe it only took 3 days to get here ( NC to IL ). Came with a Thank You card and instructions. Thumbs up to Billy, Michelle and William. Thanks!! Look forward to planting as soon as the weather stops bouncing around.
I bought some from y’all last year planted like y’all told me and every single one has grown and bloomed this year. I can’t wait to start propagating my own around every fruit tree I have
The compost that came with your comfrey smelled lovely...like apples. Beautiful and fluffy. I can enjoy that heavenly abundant fragrance when I am planting in the soil.
I just put in my order with you today for comfrey, very excited. Thank you for all of the knowledge you've been sharing. I am attempting your 18 day and chicken compost systems at the moment. Wish me luck!
They have roots the go 8 to 10 ft down that’s why you can never get rid of it when you plant it you cut it down it grows right back why do they not tell you that. I love that it’s hard to kill because you can use if for everything
Thank you for the instruction on how to propagate this plant. My wife had already purchased some from yall, I think that's where she got it, 🙂 And now I know how to make more. Thank you.
Hey, great video. We got 4 or 5 comfrey plants started last year and wow they are wonderful like you say. They were kind of my babies, and a couple weeks ago I came out to the garden and my wife had moved one of our smaller plants . I thought it would really hurt it if not kill it since it was well into the spring, so after I finished hyperventilating, I got some water on it and it perked right up. After a few days of keeping it moist, we didn’t have to give it another thought. Great plants.
Hmm I wonder if they were just a bad batch. I neglected mine pretty well in pots and they still came up. I’ll bring some root divisions next time I come by Perry County!
Looks like your Homestead Honey keeps her knives sharp- watch out now. I am on the look out for comfrey on our land and know its here somewhere. We have plenty of dock so have been using that in the same way. Some people dig up weeds... we harvest and multiply dynamic accumulators.
I just received my Comfrey order! Yippie! Now I am going to take a lot more care to make sure I get something to sprout. LOL I planted my last order right into the ground here in Tucson, AZ. I am trying to do this in pots in my office this time. I have a south facing window that gets a lot of light, so I will have pots on the floor again for a while. Now I am going back to watch the pertinent videos to make sure I do not mess things up again unnecessarily. I am fully persuaded that we will have great success this time. I will definitely let you know how it goes.
We finally ahold of comfrey. A few months ago. They are just starting to get flowers. We will definitely be splitting it up a relocating it. Thank you for sharing
Mr. Billy, I have two clumps of comfrey, I thought I planted it too deep so I watched your dividing comfrey and took the plunge, I did it and my comfrey is doing well, I am gonna work on dividing my other clump, thank you for guiding me through
I ❤ u r not using the 'polished' cheesey video marketing techniques (dogs, flattering the viewer, super big false smiles....) ❤ u r real. God bless ya. From central Texas
Years ago my dad tilled under my one comfrey plant and the 100ft2 area around it. I was furious, until next year when I now had a dozen comfrey plants. 🙂
I bought some comfrey starts from you a month or more ago. I then asked if I should go ahead and put them out where I want them to grow. Your answer was.... there will be a pimpcast about it very soon. I still haven't seen that. I have them in the fridge till spring. I hope I'm not ruining them.
I actually had forgotten about those days when you had too warm and too cool based on cloud movement. I lived in north New York back then. Now I am in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona! I also miss autumn, with the changing leaves... We go from Too Hot Summer to (yes, really) Too Cold Winters. We have about twenty or thirty minutes of Spring and Fall on the way from one to the other! LOL
I got my comfrey growing in some pots. I ordered it from Coe’s Comfrey who you mention a older video. I’m about ready to stick it around my trees! I can’t wait until it looks like y’all’s! Also, man that grass looks great. My company bought the local company up in Transylvania county and I’ve been up there and worked a few times. About two hours from me. I tried to talk my wife into moving up there lol. Everything always looked so lush up in the blue ridge mtns. Later Fam.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Well all I can say is yall have done an awesome job. I know a lot of people in permaculture don't like grass but to me, it has its place. I love a beautiful lush green grass yard. I leave mine high and cut it on the highest setting on my lawnmower. I have white clover and red clover mixed in with it, among lots of other natives (weeds as some call them) plants. Eventually, after cutting over and over I am hoping it will build up the soil and turn to more native grasses and less of the undesirable plants. Is this from running the animals over it? What exactly did you do?
I have both types of comfrey. It wasn’t doing well because I foolishly planted it around the base of a power pole. (I know, I know, creosote) So after moving it, the leaves shriveled and I’ll have to wait for it to re-emerge. Now it has clean, fresh soil with black dirt. (And compost once my compost finishes, maybe in another week or two)
It would be awesome to make videos later to see how it goes. Those plants are also compost activators, chop them and spay them in the pile and it will help it start. Thank you for this valuable content.
I live in Central AR...if I scalped mine now, lol , do you think it would leaf back out before its too cold (zone 7B/8) and then divide this winter for propagation? I want to use some for salves, and I've also been taking cuttings to dry for my rabbits this winter while it's still warm and hardy. LOVE LOVE LOVE you guys for all the great info you share with us!
This is absolutely amazing my friend! Had no idea what all comfrey was good for and how to use it. This was very informative. Do you sell the seeds? Great video. Blessings!
I just got about a dozen bocking 14 comfrey plants started in my garden and they are taking off! If you cut them down to propogate by root, as you did in the video, would the long taproot grow back if you hadn't put the crown back in the ground? If so, you'd have two plants in one spot, one from the broken taproot and one from the split crown.
The comfrey I have is common comfrey and Russian Bocking 14. But I didn’t know about Bocking 4 which has larger leaves. Maybe someday I will have to get some. Saving for my other animals now. Rinjani Money Pit.
Hey,Billy! When You free ranging your chickens with that portable fence without roof . The predators as hawks ,owls not taking them? What are you use against it? Thank You, Sir!❤
We got our comfrey in and planted, but I guess I screwed up with half of it. I planted it in two locations. One location has a lot of shade and the other doesn't. The comfrey in the shade seems to be growing fine but the comfrey in the sun ain't growing at all. I guess it can't handle this hot central Texas sun. I'm finding that most of the seeds and plants that say full sun, ain't talking about Texas sun.
Close on my property in a week. I'll be needing some. Question, where do you get your mulch from? Do you use a wood chipper? Surely William isn't carving that many spoons.
I just wanted to know why you say don't plant in miracle grow potting mix. I have terrible soil here in Florida it's all sand. The standard practice is to remove and sell the topsoil when they build a house. So instead of the great "swamp" soil, all that's left is sand. All that to say... I am using bag soil while I build up my soil. Will this be ok?
Morning Billy. I need to know if it is okay to divide my comfrey now? It has been 88-92 every day for 2 weeks and it is just now June. Or....should I wait until falll....or does temperature even matter? Thanks so much.
What am I doing wrong? 2/3 of our comfrey came up. I'm happy. Now, it is quickly dying, one plant at a time. I have found that if I water it every other day, it does better, but it's a gamble when I go to water, if it's already shriveled up to the point of no return or not. I know it's me. Please, tell me how to save it.
Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator so all of the beneficial minerals that it mines in the earth is deposited into its leaves. It’s not only great animal fodder but great in the garden because it can be used as a fantastic mulch layer, or as a means to shade out unwanted things.
You can make a tea out of the leaves and use it for fertilizer. Also i use it steeped in oil to make salve from. Its good for bruises and even fractures to help heal. A must in any garden.
I got some comfrey roots that are coming up already but I am wondering if they will grow in zone 3. I don't know the variety so can't check but I suspect it is the same as yours since it came from down south. Do you have any idea if it will thrive in this zone?
Can you please talk about the benefits of comfrey to fruit trees and other trees? I purchased some bareroot comfrey to plant around my fruit trees....but here in New England they struggle.....help!
We will do a more comprehensive video on the benefits of comfrey in the near future. You just might just have it planted in a really bad location in New England. If possible, try another location that gets more sun.
How do I keep it contained or remove it? It grows everywhere in my garden, it especially loves my raised beds and it returns even if I dig it out. The chicken dont want to eat anymore comfrey.
I’ve never been in a position where I wanted it removed, but my suspicion is that if you were to remove as much of it as possible and then planed another shady shrub over it then it would probably stay dormant. I’m having good luck using that method on this unwanted Chinese silver grass I have here.
WARNING Freudian slip comment incoming. You may experience sarcasm and humor. “You my friend are psychotic no I mean psychic.” Hopefully you get the joke, but brother we have been on the same wave length for some time now and this last video proves it. My only Comfrey planter I had to over winter in the house and it is on it’s last legs, and I was wondering. What should I do and you again put out a video that hits close to home. I really need to make a pilgrimage to the Perma Pasture MECCA. So if I may be so bold, what would it take to get a few roots and or sprigs sent my way. I understand if not but, I if I don’t ask the question will still be lingering. The 18 day compost is doing great, I had to skip a day do to live situations, but things are still cooking like Kerosene. As always keep them coming, God Bless from WYO.
We must clearly be on the same wavelength because I am about to start selling comfrey roots. In fact, we are going to open it up first to the subscribers on Patreon.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Must be my lucky day i joined yesterday. Please let me know what needs to happen. Got a busy day so have to be short. God Bless from WYO
God did not create starving children. God created humans to have free will and humans chose and still choose to make bad, selfish and evil choices. Most famines have human causes (war, ideology, greed, stupidity). To rescue humans from the consequences of our terrible choices, God (Jesus) took on human nature and went through normal human suffering as well as one of the most horrible deaths conceived by man. God does not promise us an easy life. He does promise to always bring good out of evil, to always forgive the repentant and to eventually mete out justice to those who do evil (like cause famines) and don't repent.
I know this video is 3 years old just wanted to say my comfrey roots came today. Already started planting them around my yard😂 love your videos ❤
Just got my comfrey out of the mailbox! I ordered 20 cuttings, they look great and I can't believe it only took 3 days to get here ( NC to IL ). Came with a Thank You card and instructions. Thumbs up to Billy, Michelle and William. Thanks!! Look forward to planting as soon as the weather stops bouncing around.
I bought some from y’all last year planted like y’all told me and every single one has grown and bloomed this year. I can’t wait to start propagating my own around every fruit tree I have
The compost that came with your comfrey smelled lovely...like apples. Beautiful and fluffy. I can enjoy that heavenly abundant fragrance when I am planting in the soil.
Thank you so much for your business
Bam! another fine instructional video from Billy Bond. Received my Comfrey from Perma Pastures Farm online store and ready to get a planting😁
I'm here in Vegas. And let me tell you. I'm super Novice. My Babe and I have rooted and potted 7. And the are GROWING NO PROBLEM 😊
I'm going to propagate my comfrey soon. It does well in our desert food forest. I want to grow a bunch of it. Susie
I watched your last comfrey video...I got 12 plants from one small plant and they're all growing fast..I'm loving it.
I purchased comfrey from you last year and this year they are growing beautifully. I would say 3 feet tall. Thank you so much.😁
I just put in my order with you today for comfrey, very excited. Thank you for all of the knowledge you've been sharing. I am attempting your 18 day and chicken compost systems at the moment. Wish me luck!
Brought and planted 10 plants - nothing came up
They have roots the go 8 to 10 ft down that’s why you can never get rid of it when you plant it you cut it down it grows right back why do they not tell you that. I love that it’s hard to kill because you can use if for everything
Thank you for the instruction on how to propagate this plant. My wife had already purchased some from yall, I think that's where she got it, 🙂 And now I know how to make more. Thank you.
Hey, great video. We got 4 or 5 comfrey plants started last year and wow they are wonderful like you say. They were kind of my babies, and a couple weeks ago I came out to the garden and my wife had moved one of our smaller plants . I thought it would really hurt it if not kill it since it was well into the spring, so after I finished hyperventilating, I got some water on it and it perked right up. After a few days of keeping it moist, we didn’t have to give it another thought. Great plants.
Perfect timing! I’ve got some big guys I planted last year ready for division
I planted 20 seeds, but none germinated. Did you start yours from seed? If so, what's the trick?
Hmm I wonder if they were just a bad batch. I neglected mine pretty well in pots and they still came up. I’ll bring some root divisions next time I come by Perry County!
@@HomesteadForALiving Sweeeeeet :)
Had to smile when I see you are comfortable once again with the title P.I.M.P. Way to go.
Thanks I just started comfrey. We will see how it goes. Thanks for sharing
Looks like your Homestead Honey keeps her knives sharp- watch out now. I am on the look out for comfrey on our land and know its here somewhere. We have plenty of dock so have been using that in the same way. Some people dig up weeds... we harvest and multiply dynamic accumulators.
That’s what I’m talking about!
I just received my Comfrey order! Yippie! Now I am going to take a lot more care to make sure I get something to sprout. LOL I planted my last order right into the ground here in Tucson, AZ. I am trying to do this in pots in my office this time. I have a south facing window that gets a lot of light, so I will have pots on the floor again for a while.
Now I am going back to watch the pertinent videos to make sure I do not mess things up again unnecessarily. I am fully persuaded that we will have great success this time. I will definitely let you know how it goes.
We finally ahold of comfrey. A few months ago. They are just starting to get flowers. We will definitely be splitting it up a relocating it. Thank you for sharing
Your sheep and chickens will thank you!
Mr. Billy, I have two clumps of comfrey, I thought I planted it too deep so I watched your dividing comfrey and took the plunge, I did it and my comfrey is doing well, I am gonna work on dividing my other clump, thank you for guiding me through
I ❤ u r not using the 'polished' cheesey video marketing techniques (dogs, flattering the viewer, super big false smiles....) ❤ u r real. God bless ya. From central Texas
Years ago my dad tilled under my one comfrey plant and the 100ft2 area around it. I was furious, until next year when I now had a dozen comfrey plants. 🙂
I bought some comfrey starts from you a month or more ago. I then asked if I should go ahead and put them out where I want them to grow. Your answer was.... there will be a pimpcast about it very soon. I still haven't seen that. I have them in the fridge till spring. I hope I'm not ruining them.
Billy, Airborne Sapper! Hoaaah! God bless you...
Even as old as I am-old school still learning thank you
Thank you so much!
I’m right there with you. We can do it! It just takes a little longer.
I actually had forgotten about those days when you had too warm and too cool based on cloud movement. I lived in north New York back then. Now I am in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona! I also miss autumn, with the changing leaves... We go from Too Hot Summer to (yes, really) Too Cold Winters. We have about twenty or thirty minutes of Spring and Fall on the way from one to the other! LOL
Same here in Southern New Mexico. It's getting 110 in the shade. I'm sure y'all get hotter then us. Susie
@@OutWestHomestead About the same! :o) There comes a point when it is just ... hot.
I got my comfrey growing in some pots. I ordered it from Coe’s Comfrey who you mention a older video. I’m about ready to stick it around my trees! I can’t wait until it looks like y’all’s! Also, man that grass looks great. My company bought the local company up in Transylvania county and I’ve been up there and worked a few times. About two hours from me. I tried to talk my wife into moving up there lol. Everything always looked so lush up in the blue ridge mtns. Later Fam.
You would’ve had exactly the opposite opinion about the grass when we first moved here. It was a mess!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Well all I can say is yall have done an awesome job. I know a lot of people in permaculture don't like grass but to me, it has its place. I love a beautiful lush green grass yard. I leave mine high and cut it on the highest setting on my lawnmower. I have white clover and red clover mixed in with it, among lots of other natives (weeds as some call them) plants. Eventually, after cutting over and over I am hoping it will build up the soil and turn to more native grasses and less of the undesirable plants.
Is this from running the animals over it? What exactly did you do?
@@EarlybirdFarmSC Goodness! You must have a hidden wire in this home!
The video we have coming out tomorrow deals with that very topic.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 For real? I will be looking out for it My PIMP friend. Later brother.
I'm glad I found this, I was wondering about how to propagate my comfrey. I was worried I might kill it.
I have both types of comfrey. It wasn’t doing well because I foolishly planted it around the base of a power pole. (I know, I know, creosote) So after moving it, the leaves shriveled and I’ll have to wait for it to re-emerge. Now it has clean, fresh soil with black dirt. (And compost once my compost finishes, maybe in another week or two)
I was going to order some and wouldn’t you know it, i found a patch growing in my backyard!
Thank you for all the information💜
It would be awesome to make videos later to see how it goes. Those plants are also compost activators, chop them and spay them in the pile and it will help it start. Thank you for this valuable content.
We use it for that very thing also.
I just received my comfrey cuttings and am getting ready to plant them! Can you tell me the variety of comfrey that I received? Thank you all you do!!
Great video.
Do the cattle eat it? Mine that I got from you is doing good!
beautiful.
I need some of that, been meaning to buy some.
Your chickens and pigs love it!
awesome
I live in Central AR...if I scalped mine now, lol , do you think it would leaf back out before its too cold (zone 7B/8) and then divide this winter for propagation? I want to use some for salves, and I've also been taking cuttings to dry for my rabbits this winter while it's still warm and hardy. LOVE LOVE LOVE you guys for all the great info you share with us!
Just saw a video from the lady farms great stuff
Here from lladys farm video
I love comfrey
This is absolutely amazing my friend! Had no idea what all comfrey was good for and how to use it. This was very informative. Do you sell the seeds? Great video. Blessings!
We will be selling root cuttings pretty soon. Thank you for watching!
I just got about a dozen bocking 14 comfrey plants started in my garden and they are taking off! If you cut them down to propogate by root, as you did in the video, would the long taproot grow back if you hadn't put the crown back in the ground? If so, you'd have two plants in one spot, one from the broken taproot and one from the split crown.
Vey helpful
The comfrey I have is common comfrey and Russian Bocking 14. But I didn’t know about Bocking 4 which has larger leaves. Maybe someday I will have to get some. Saving for my other animals now. Rinjani Money Pit.
Hey,Billy! When You free ranging your chickens with that portable fence without roof . The predators as hawks ,owls not taking them? What are you use against it? Thank You, Sir!❤
We got our comfrey in and planted, but I guess I screwed up with half of it. I planted it in two locations. One location has a lot of shade and the other doesn't. The comfrey in the shade seems to be growing fine but the comfrey in the sun ain't growing at all. I guess it can't handle this hot central Texas sun. I'm finding that most of the seeds and plants that say full sun, ain't talking about Texas sun.
Can you grow these in containers? Like 18 gallon totes?
Can I grow comfrey in the panhandle of Texas...would love to have this!!!!
is this the same comfrey you find in the wild. With purple flowers?
When is the best time of year to do this?
Nice advice!
Thank you!
Show us when that is full again next month. I would like to see it. Thanks!
You got it!
Close on my property in a week. I'll be needing some. Question, where do you get your mulch from? Do you use a wood chipper? Surely William isn't carving that many spoons.
I just wanted to know why you say don't plant in miracle grow potting mix. I have terrible soil here in Florida it's all sand. The standard practice is to remove and sell the topsoil when they build a house. So instead of the great "swamp" soil, all that's left is sand. All that to say... I am using bag soil while I build up my soil. Will this be ok?
You can't start with leave or stem and put in water?
Morning Billy. I need to know if it is okay to divide my comfrey now? It has been 88-92 every day for 2 weeks and it is just now June. Or....should I wait until falll....or does temperature even matter? Thanks so much.
Where do you getvyour rice knifes?? They are never available on your web site..
What am I doing wrong? 2/3 of our comfrey came up. I'm happy. Now, it is quickly dying, one plant at a time. I have found that if I water it every other day, it does better, but it's a gamble when I go to water, if it's already shriveled up to the point of no return or not. I know it's me. Please, tell me how to save it.
You didn't mention why comfrey is so good....why is it good for the garden?
Comfrey is a dynamic accumulator so all of the beneficial minerals that it mines in the earth is deposited into its leaves. It’s not only great animal fodder but great in the garden because it can be used as a fantastic mulch layer, or as a means to shade out unwanted things.
You can make a tea out of the leaves and use it for fertilizer. Also i use it steeped in oil to make salve from. Its good for bruises and even fractures to help heal. A must in any garden.
I got some comfrey roots that are coming up already but I am wondering if they will grow in zone 3. I don't know the variety so can't check but I suspect it is the same as yours since it came from down south. Do you have any idea if it will thrive in this zone?
The Russian comfrey I have is supposedly good from zones 3-9.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Thank you I pray that is what I bought.
I need gloves & long sleeves to work with comfrey, the hairs make me itch all day if I donty.
Can goats eat to much comfrey? Can it harm them?
If I have learned something is to improve the soil and my vegetable garden takes off.
Right on! It all starts and ends in the soil my friend.
Where do I order comfrey?
Can you please talk about the benefits of comfrey to fruit trees and other trees? I purchased some bareroot comfrey to plant around my fruit trees....but here in New England they struggle.....help!
We will do a more comprehensive video on the benefits of comfrey in the near future.
You just might just have it planted in a really bad location in New England. If possible, try another location that gets more sun.
How do I keep it contained or remove it? It grows everywhere in my garden, it especially loves my raised beds and it returns even if I dig it out. The chicken dont want to eat anymore comfrey.
I’ve never been in a position where I wanted it removed, but my suspicion is that if you were to remove as much of it as possible and then planed another shady shrub over it then it would probably stay dormant.
I’m having good luck using that method on this unwanted Chinese silver grass I have here.
Uh.. lol... What are uses for comfrey?
Too many to list my friend.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I ask, because I've heard it's harmful/toxic for humans to use internally and too much can be bad for external usage.
How do I order comfrey?
I apologize for the late response Wanda. You can go to our website www.permapasturesfarm.com/store-1/comfrey
I need some comfrey. Will you sell me any?
❤️
Will my red wiggler compost worms eat the comfrey leaves?
I’m not sure.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 How Can I buy comfrey from you?
I'm now using to simplify my life. less weed eating if you use this plant right.
I just moved my comfrey
What variety of comfrey is that?
Russian
Is any variety good for what you’ve described?
I’ve never planted comfrey. I’ve heard of it just through the grape vine. I’ll need to look into them a bit further. Thanks man.
You bet!
Can I buy comfrey from you????
We have it at our website but I think we’re sold out at the present moment. We should have some available pretty soon.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 what is your website name?
WARNING Freudian slip comment incoming. You may experience sarcasm and humor. “You my friend are psychotic no I mean psychic.” Hopefully you get the joke, but brother we have been on the same wave length for some time now and this last video proves it. My only Comfrey planter I had to over winter in the house and it is on it’s last legs, and I was wondering. What should I do and you again put out a video that hits close to home. I really need to make a pilgrimage to the Perma Pasture MECCA. So if I may be so bold, what would it take to get a few roots and or sprigs sent my way. I understand if not but, I if I don’t ask the question will still be lingering. The 18 day compost is doing great, I had to skip a day do to live situations, but things are still cooking like Kerosene. As always keep them coming, God Bless from WYO.
We must clearly be on the same wavelength because I am about to start selling comfrey roots. In fact, we are going to open it up first to the subscribers on Patreon.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Must be my lucky day i joined yesterday. Please let me know what needs to happen. Got a busy day so have to be short. God Bless from WYO
Should we really be taking advice from someone who volunteered to be a Sapper? :)
@ 0:30 God also made my b-hole and starving children so... that man in the clouds is a sick son of a - - - - -
God did not create starving children. God created humans to have free will and humans chose and still choose to make bad, selfish and evil choices. Most famines have human causes (war, ideology, greed, stupidity). To rescue humans from the consequences of our terrible choices, God (Jesus) took on human nature and went through normal human suffering as well as one of the most horrible deaths conceived by man. God does not promise us an easy life. He does promise to always bring good out of evil, to always forgive the repentant and to eventually mete out justice to those who do evil (like cause famines) and don't repent.