My dream is that after I transition and no longer tend the land I live on, the comfrey, nettles, Joe pye weed, Golden rod, asters, milkweed will take over and be an oasis in the forest for all pollinators and critters. Cheers to you both!
Comfrey is great! I use the root to brew a strong tea from it and I hold a bit of the tea in my mouth for 10 Minutes. This makes my teeth so strong and smooth!
Had a lot of problems with weeds like nettles and bindweed invading from the neigbours garden, so I transplanted Cumfrey along the fence early this summer. Great success, no more weeds and the neighbours chickens devour every bit of Cumfrey they can reach, so there is no need to worry that it will invade their garden. Of course also great for mulching and composting these leaves.
My chickens won't touch comfrey! I planted it all over for them but they seem to prefer all the other weeds and clover and grasses. But I chop and drop the comfrey into my gardens to add nutrients.
Thanks for this! I had one comfrey plant 2 years ago and now they come up everywhere!😁 I see them as plant feeding stations! This has given me the idea to plant some round our fruit trees and shrubs to help cut down a bit of grass growth and to bring up minerals-as well as bringing in more pollinators. And now is just the right time to do that, so great stuff!
TY for your video. I've grown comfrey in my gardens all my gardening life (5 decades now). Wouldn't be without it. Watching the bumble bees go at the flowers is total entertainment. Blessings.
Comfrey is the easiest thing in the world to propagate. I picked one of the bottom leaves, and it came away with a tiny bit of rooty stem. Stuck it in a pot, now I've got a new plant.
Can't move out of the city yet, but planning to plant comfrey and lots of other useful plants when I move to the tropics at last, hope they can grow there. Anyway brought a small comfrey plant on a pot but my cats ate it all... I absolutely can believe all animals love the plant!!
Thank you for the information on the comfrey plant. I live in Ohio in the United States. A friend of mine who has a nine Acre Farm grazing this area and she gave me a start of comfrey. Is doing well in a pot on my patio. I plan to be making some comfrey Salve in the near future. God bless you keep you safe.
Geese usually like to mate in water, when we had our geese we had an old child's plastic sandpit (like a big blue clam shell which consisted of a top & a bottom) we used 1 half as a bathing pond for them, it was the perfect height for the geese to clamber into & they only mated when they were in the pond, it was also light enough for us to tip it out to refill if if got too dirty. just a suggestion. :-)
Indeed they do, we usually put them in and around one of our ponds in Jan/Feb when mating season starts so that they can enjoy their moment! Thank for watching!
Recent subscriber. After 2 minutes, I am hooked on this glorious channel. After this video, I'm going to start from the beginning. I am in the infant stages and debating a farmvlog after seeing this one, I have to step up my production value.
I read that comfrey has that deep tap root that pulls nutrients from deep in the soil up to the surface and then you chop and drop their leaves, BUT I also read that it is very difficult to get rid of because of that tap root.
That Comfrey is a deep root mineral accumulator is actually an old wives tale. There's been a few actual studies on the plant that show it has an average root depth and an average accumulation compared to other tubers and root plants. I have it in my food forest for the weed block do to it's density of growth, path edging, fast growth for mulch and it makes a very nice tea. Plus, it's a very nice looking plant that doesn't require a lot of maintenance. I've over a thousand varieties of edible and medicinal plants in my food forest. 3 different varieties of Comfrey.
We've been doing the same with comfrey for a couple years now, since starting our backyard meadows, keeping lawn grasses out of beds and making comfrey tea! I am always impressed with how persistent it is, at least the original variety not bocking. I love its persistance...more comfrey tea
Amazing. I knew comfrey was good for sprains but it seems to be a garden wonder plant! The key factor being sterile seeds or it would be a nightmare. Good to know.
Congratulations on 10k! Great to learn more about how valuable comfrey is in the garden and how easy it is to propagate. My garden is so small I'd put off growing any due to worry about it taking over, but it seems so beneficial I may have to find a cutting and give it a go.
If you stick to bocking 14 variety, it's sterile so can't spread by seed. So you can let it flower, bumblebees love it. But it won't take over or spread.
I had a fairly small garden and had 2 plants ( no idea of variety) in the same places for 30!years - no spreading. Just starting to establish my new comfrey through your our orchard and along a ditch for easy harvesting of compost/ mulch/ new plant material… they are great!
This is an extra specially interesting video because of the comfrey. I have it growing everywhere. It's such a valuable plant! It's lovely to see you guys doing so well in what has been a challenging growing year.
I like how you used for animals to help heal the lands and recycle everything on your farm.. I love your videos like that. I like how you take care of your geese... they have a way of eating a lot grass than normal speed about 90% of their diet is grass.
Thank you. The geese work very well in our tree systems and we love how much grass they eat. We have to give them some grain in winter when the grass stops growing.
I bought some Bocking 14 about 10 years ago and planted it in different places at the edge of my garden and lawn. I just dug up 2 plants, replanted a piece in the original spaces and then planted 33 other pieces of those original plants at the edge of my gardens and the side of my house. I want it to stop the encroachment but I also will use it for chop and drop and Jadam fertilizer tea. The new planted areas will keep me from having to chop it and put it in a wheel barrow to spread it in my garden. I make Jadam (Korean) comfrey tea by chopping up a bunch of comfrey and stuffing it into a 32 gallon black garbage can. I pack the comfrey tight up to about 3/4 of the garbage can. I throw in some leaf mold and sea salt, wait about three months and mix the solution 1 part tea to 10 parts water. You can keep adding the comfrey and water. It's freeze proof over the winter. It works and you will never run out of the stuff. The Russian Bocking 14's NPK is 1.8 - 0.5 - 7. Buying it was one of the smartest things I've ever done for my garden and my back
I really like farm blogging it can relate to me because I’m in my small farm mostly all the time I like animal plants and the ambiance in farm. New friend here watching you always. God bless
Such a great video guys! I planted one comfrey plant a few months ago and it's already grown so much. Hopefully will never have to buy another again. Thanks for sharing what's going on at the farm! 🌿
Well done for 10k, I've shared your channel on Scottish Twitter ;) Can't believe you're not at 100k! Brilliant Comfrey tutorial too! I have 4 plants, 2 yrs old now - I'll be splitting them soon (Kirklee Road Allotments, Bellshill).
Your geese look well. My geese like comfrey - more the root. Some do, some not so much. Goslings will be fun, a small incubator will do the job. Having them bonded to you will make it easier to move the rest of the flock. Do you sit with your geese much? I really enjoy the end of the summer, when all their craziness is over and the geese find time to cuddle up at the end of the day ❤️💕💖
I (James) spend quite a bit of time with them so they are very calm around me but get a little loud around people they don't see so much! Thanks for watching!
Absolutely agree on priceless value of comfrey 👍 thank you for sharing what fruit trees you grow. I am always excited to learn new fruit I never tried before especially home-grown 👍 there is nothing better!
Congratulations on 10K! It's my first year growing comfrey. It was hard at first. The deer and groundhogs ate them down to the ground. Since I put up a fence they are thriving. The leaves are very prickly though. I was wondering how you could work with them with your bare hands! Could yours be a different variety?
Medlar jelly is wonderful, our trees are a few years old now and we get more than we know what to do with. Mind you, we'll need to find something other than jelly otherwise we'll end up on the road to diabetes 😅. Comfrey is great, but dock is also a good dynamic accumulator, and loving it saves a lot of weeding 😂 Congratulations on the 10k, well deserved!
Thank you! We're excited to see how the medlar trees develop. I agree with you on the docks (I had recorded a section comparing them with comfrey and how similar they are but had to edit it out due to time constraints), though we're trying our best to have less docks flowering and seeding everywhere!
Oh how I LOVE your channel- I am LONG time subscriber first time commenter ( I figured out how to create a user name) and both of you are such a joy to watch and learn from! Here in the Pacific Northwest comfrey is such a benefit but you have expanded that knowledge !
Like the way you do things... I just found your videos by accident.. the farming I believe that's the way the world should run that's what our creator would have wanted..
Hi Bex - thanks so much for finding us and watching our vlogs! Sounds like you have a wonderful and exciting set up too - hope it all goes well. Cheers!
This is very helpful! We are in the process of looking for comfrey roots to plant on our property. Appreciate the heads up on finding sterile comfrey! Thank you for the inspiration!
Awesome to have just found your channel - since this is the first episode I’ve watched, I’ve loved getting to see your place, what you’ve got, and what you’re doing. Brilliant!
Do environmentalist Princes Charles and William know about you ? Seems like they'd love to see the wonderful work you are doing. (I'm an American Anglophile possibly with some scottish roots (Pruitt) :)
Just found your channel- Really great video ! I love comfrey....excited to see an update video on how the "extraction" went :) Do you hav a video on making a willow fence/ or the fences on your land? Cheers!
A tip which many know of is NOT to steep… all the benefits can be had by putting cut leaves dry in a container with holes and letting them break down and drip into a lower one. Best to set up with little evaporation so a lid and tight joining pots r the best. This concentration can be bottled and used as needed. With no STINK! !!
I've often thought about these Geese brooding and hatching problems and wondered if there could not be a system of fake eggs to supplement the empty space once you rob the nest of the real goose eggs to incubate, replacing the fake eggs with those hatching ont in the Electrical Brooder. That way the Mother Goose can take care of the Goslings.
Always add my comfrey to the compost or use as mulch. An amazing plant. A few little weedy ones were passed on from an allotment neighbour a few years ago - my how they have grown! Love the channel.
Here in the US these are called paddocks that you put different cells as you call it..like 👍 how you set up your land to to keep moving them goats ahead that's called rotational grazing....
You're right, it is! We have been using rotational grazing ever since we had cattle here six years ago. We practice a relaxed leader system, the goats lead, followed by the geese then hens.
Congratulations, or as the locals here say Tillykke! Well deserved, you produce some great content, and for me I feel very connected to it. I was wondering, looking at the goats in their cells, have you considered in the summer using a more structured grazing plan and following the goats with say meat hens? It would add to the fertilisation by spreading the goats manure around more and obviously adding to that with their own? Plus of course they provide you with an extra source of meat. It's a thought, I don't think I've seen you do anything with meat hens?
Thank you so much for the support!! Yes we work with a basic rotational grazing leader system, the goats being the leader and followed by the geese and then the laying hens. We had hoped to include the sheep in there too but they are currently too difficult to move! The system works very well and like you said, meat chickens would work very well also (something we have thought of trying).
@@TapoNothFarm it's the system I'm planning to put in place when I eventually get some land. Your conditions are very similar to what mine will be and it's really useful for me to see how well it works. I love what you guys are doing, you're inspiration and encouragement for me to keep pursuing my dreams.
