[patmci]

Does anybody know where i would get comfrey. There is none growing around me but where would i get it. A garden store or what.

[gavo]

Hello,

Try the Organic Centre in Rossinver.

Cheers

Gavin

[rustyme]

http://www.organiccatalogue.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=comfrey&search_in_description=0
 chase organics sell the bocking 14 sterile variety, although they seem to be out of stock at the moment .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ORGANIC-BOCKING-14-COMFREY-CHUNKS-OF-ROOT-FREE-POSTAGE_W0QQitemZ280356180925QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090610?IMSfp=TL090610149003r6870
    here is someone selling it on ebay . wherever you get it try to make sure you only get bocking 14 . Other varieties can go to seed , and you will end up with it everywhere. Bocking 14 can not go to seed, you can only propagate it by root cutting .

cheers

Russ
 

[daviddb]

We bought some from the e-bay supplier. It's taken off a storm. v. pleased.

regards as always

David

[oink]

can I ask what you're growing it for?  Someone mentioned that it's quite high in protein so good for pig feed.  What with prices for pig feed I've been considering it myself.

[daviddb]

Yup, we're feeding it as a midday snackette to PigOne and PigTwo along with all the other bits and bobs as extras to pig nuts.  They're quite keen, placing it well above lettuce gone to seed, banana skins, ceps and fodder beet but below walnuts, melon skins, garlic, bread or spinach leaves.

regards as always

David

(hot but thundery in the Pyrenees)

[shetlandpaul]

its now meant to be good for bad backs and other aches.

[Hilarysmum]

Do your pigs eat banana skins and melon skins.  Mine will eat the fruit and leave the skins. 

[oink]

mine will eat the skin and fruit before it even hits the ground.  For some reason though they turn there noses up at lettuce.  I tried telling them if you don't finish everything on your plate...

[sausagesandcash]

If you buy a garden shredder (for chopping up branches and leaves) and shred all, they eat everything. Just don't use the shredder for anything else.


Regards,

Morgan

P.S best piggie investment I ever made (hillarysmum, now mine eat the banana skins!)

[Hilarysmum]

Certainly worth considering  - bananas being 1.79 euros a kilo now.

[daviddb]

Yes the melon skins are the number one choice, handy when there's a glut and they're down to three for a euro but banana skins cause no excitement and just get hoovered up when PigOne & PigTwo  get to the last knockings of their snackette.

regards

David

(wet and thundery in the Pyrenees)

[Hilarysmum]

They will eat them if they have melon inside, otherwise no, but I think the chickens kick them around and eventually eat them.

Its warm and cloudy here in Brittany

[Higgins11]

being from the USA i'm a bit confused or maybe we call it something different

What is Comfrey

where does it grow well?

[sausagesandcash]

Don't worry higgins, had never heard of it either (Ireland), until about a year ago. Apparently it grows well pretty much everywhere, except perhaps sub-sahran Africa! It prefers growing in damp, grassy places - the non sterile version grows over here on river banks and ditches. The Bocking 14 version is sterile, thus doesn't go to seed, and as a result is non invasive - thats the type you want to buy. Bit early in the morning for me, so I hope this is all coherent!

Oh and Higgins, on an unrelated note, do you still live in Hawaii? Is that rapscallion Thomas Magnum still around? What a cushy job you have minding Mr. Masters estate.



Regards,

Morgan