What’s the deal with comfrey? Shill me
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One of the comfrey cuttings you sold me last year. Some didn't germinate, but this one is doing great. I think I have trouble with fertility in my soil out in the field. This is our garden and we've been laying wood chips for several years now.
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Creates the most annual biomass of any terrestrial plant per sqft.
Pollinator haven due to hundreds of flowers.
~26% protein, Ruminants love it as part of their forage.
Green manure for compost.
Incredible wet mulch for your garden that should be "locked in" by covering with dry mulch - leaves / wood chips / grass clippings.
Can be used as a bone mend, and other medicinal properties.
Roots go down to ~2M so pulling nutrients from deep & you can use it to make a "wall" to lessen erosion & catch soil downhill.
🫡thanks for the download. Going to be planting some this year for sure
Awesome,
There's a few varieties of note:
Classic Comfrey: prolific and spreads - propagates from seed and root
Bocking #4: sterile seed, only propagates from root
Bocking #14: sterile seed, also only from root
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I have the bottom two varieties of you need 🫡.
If you don't mind it spreading, which be mindful once comfrey is there it's almost impossible to kill, then go classic.
Incredible bio mass producer
Insanely deep tap root than mines minerals to the surface
Polinators LOVE the flowers
Can be an amazing addition to compost
Can be fed to some animals as fodder
Sometimes called "bone setter" as it has amazing healinh properties
Make a pultice and apply the soft side of the leaf to wounds for rapid healing
Can't remove it once planted!
I dig it