Russian Comfrey tea is a wonderful free fertiliser for your vegetable or flower garden but not for human consumption! A harvest of leaves can be cut from your comfrey plants at least twice during summer, I get three or four harvests from our plants in the polytunnel. Simply bruise the foliage in a bucket and fill with water, preferably rainwater. Leave the broth to fester for a few weeks, this happens quicker if you keep it inside a polytunnel but you may find the smell repulsive! It soon turns to a black liquer which needs to be diluted 15:1 for use on flowering or fruiting plants.
The comfrey plant has a very deep tap root which brings up many trace elements and minerals from deep below the soil where these nutrients often lie out of reach for mainstream plants. The leaves can also be thrown on the compost heap to boost its value or chopped and dug into vegetable beds.
I like Russian Comfrey as it does not set seed and so is less invasive, spreading via root cuttings instead.
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Posted by: Flowers | July 24, 2009 at 01:06 PM
good to know. Thanks!
Posted by: queenie | July 27, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Hi,
Can you tell me where I can get some Russian Comfrey, I have looked at a few places but all are out of stock.
Like your site. We are trying to follow the same path. Bad weather in summer not helping. Great for slugs.
Allbest
Richard
Posted by: Richard Stone | November 22, 2009 at 06:23 PM
I got my comfrey seeds from Chilterns seed catalogue, you'll find them on line.
Posted by: Rebecca (Sallygardens Smallholding author) | November 22, 2009 at 10:21 PM