3 varieties of comfrey

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Comfrey is a well known permaculture plant, and with good reason.
It can be used as a living mulch, as a chop and drop crop, and can be made into an amazing liquid plant feed. It's an excellent fodder crop for grazers, and is a great nectar source for bees.
We grow 3 different varieties of comfrey here at the croft. Each has its own niche, and slightly different uses.
In this video I demonstrate how we use each variety.
*When I'm talking about the Bocking 14 variety I misspeak and call it self fertile. It's actually a self sterile variety.
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@johnharrison1743 3 года назад

Finally I find something really useful on RU-vid! THANK YOU.

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@johnharrison1743 3 года назад

@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture I've been growing it for a long time and never thought about using it around trees. As you show, it's very easy to propagate so producing enough plants will be easy. I don't recall L D Hills mentioning that in his book on comfrey - unusual for him to miss a trick!

@juniorthomson5972 3 года назад

Recently discovered your channel and am now binge watching the whole lot. Really helpful stuff. Thanks pal.

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 3 года назад

Thanks, glad you enjoy them.

@tantramantra1993 4 месяца назад

That video is very helpful 🙏🙏

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@jameskniskern2261 3 года назад

Love our comfrey plants! A friend gave us a couple plants. I've duplicated them hundreds of times around our smallholding. I can certainly tell where the ground is fertile and where it isn't by how big the comfrey gets. I just step mine down when the flower stalks are blooming. It regrows from the center, and I step it down in another direction. So, I use it on fence lines to keep the grass down. And eventually it winds up on my compost pile for extra nutrient for the veg beds. :) And you didn't even get into the medicinal uses! :)

@MyFamilyGarden 3 года назад

That's the fasted and simplest way of propagating comfrey I've seen!

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 3 года назад

It really is hard as nails! A friend took some root cuttings, forgot about them, and left them on a wall half the summer, dessicating. She found them in the autumn and planted them, and they grew again the following spring.

@MarkyBigSmoke 3 года назад

Very interesting. I've recently planted fruit trees and currants, at the moment the comfrey I planted looks tiny, so I hope it will be big enough to divide next spring then. Also chop and drop before then too. thanks for the heads up.

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 3 года назад

It's generally a good idea to not divide it or chop it during its first year, but once it's established it's hard as nails, and tolerates all kinds of abuse.

@MarkyBigSmoke 3 года назад

Ah, right, will do, thanks

@mattsmith9656 3 года назад

Watching from Australia and learning a lot from this channel... what part of Wales are you from NP ?

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture 3 года назад

Fantastic, glad you're enjoying it! I was born in Aberystwyth on the west coast, and lived a little south of there.

@mattsmith9656 3 года назад

@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Awesome ... we do get around 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@dosomemusic Год назад

Hello ! Does the regular comfrey have more "rounded" leaves ? I spotted two "intruders" with different, larger and rounder leaves, betwin my bocking 14 plantings :p And i do remember to have bought regular comfrey plant a long time ago...

@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Год назад

I've not noticed a great deal of difference in the cultivars I have, but the regular one I use I foraged locally. It's still possible you just have a different cultivar.