[Hatty]

The comfrey you need for the garden is Bocking 14 which doesn't grow from seed.  If you need root cuttings I will happily send you some if you pay the postage.  It's wonderful stuff - you make a liquid feed (your granddads tea), you can chop it and use it as a mulch, you can dig it into tomato planting holes, add it to the compost heap or use it to enrich bought growing compost.  It is also very good for sheep who like to graze the young leaves and of course the bees and other beneficial insects absolutely love the flowers.  So if you want some roots (I have masses ) please pm me.

would you send some to sunny yorkshire?

[Fleecewife]

Of course    Just pm me your address.  Or, if you are close to the A1 I could drop it off next week as I will be driving down it - by post I can only fit in fairly small plants, although they grow quickly.

[Mo]

would you send some to sunny yorkshire?

It's grey and dull in my part of Yorkshire 
And Fleecwife's Comfrey is thriving, she kindly sent me some last year which took well.

[Hatty]

would you send some to sunny yorkshire?

It's grey and dull in my part of Yorkshire 
And Fleecwife's Comfrey is thriving, she kindly sent me some last year which took well.

Depends on your outlook, could have been chuckin it down I felt sunny lol 

[Beewyched]

The comfrey you need for the garden is Bocking 14 which doesn't grow from seed.  If you need root cuttings I will happily send you some if you pay the postage.  It's wonderful stuff - you make a liquid feed (your granddads tea), you can chop it and use it as a mulch, you can dig it into tomato planting holes, add it to the compost heap or use it to enrich bought growing compost.  It is also very good for sheep who like to graze the young leaves and of course the bees and other beneficial insects absolutely love the flowers.  So if you want some roots (I have masses ) please pm me.

Hiya Fleecwife 
Would you by any chance have any of this Comfrey left - promise I'll make sure the piggies won't get to it all  sounds like my bees & veggies would love it 

[oink]

another scrounger here if you have any left.  i could post you some hatching eggs in return or I'm saving seeds this year so could give you some veg seed at the end of the year.

[Hatty]

oh dear I really started something  Comfrey planted 

[northfifeduckling]

honest, folks, there;s plenty here in fife - it does seed over the years but it still does the job  - it's free 

[Fleecewife]

Hi Beewyched and oink - last two lots of comfrey will come to you, then that will be it for this season as it's starting to grow and getting too difficult to dig up..  Can you both pm me with your postal addresses please.
Oink - what eggs do you have?  I am looking for blue and dark brown layers, but not Marans as they are too like my Scots Greys.  But in fact the comfrey is free, just in return for the P&P.....   I just like to think of it growing all over the country.

[Hatty]

this is interesting all about comfrey 

http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/comfrey.PDF

 

[deepinthewoods]

just for reference:

In his book “Comfrey, Past Present and Future” Hills listed the results of analysis of Comfrey grown at Bocking.

Comparative Nutritional Analysis of comfrey, compost and manure

Material Water % N%  P % K % C:N 
Farm Yard Manure 76.0 0.64 0.23 0.32 14:1
Wilted Russian Comfrey 75.0 0.74 0.24 1.19 9.8:1
Indoor Compost 76.0 0.50 0.27 0.81 10:1

He also made Comfrey juice by using 14lbs of comfrey leaves in a 20 gallon drum. Again the results of the analysis are shown below.

Material DM N P K
Tomorite 0.1410 0.0130 0.0139 0.0093
Comfrey 0.4090 0.0140 0.0340 0.0059

DM – dry matter, N – Nitrogen, P – Potash, K – Phosphorous

[Beewyched]

Many thanks Fleecewife - have PM'd you