comfrey - now is the moment to cut it down to the ground and leave the leaves to soak in bucket of water until it smells like pig dung. The mushy residue of leaves then goes in the compost bin and the liquid gets bottled and used as liquid fertiliser.
Does anyone know how many different colours it comes in? I have the pinkand white one.
Mine are roughly as pictured by Red. Some lighter or darker than others
I also have a low growing white one that excellent ground cover for a rough space and lovely blue one that's half way between the other 2 in size. The latter invades but is not so good at beating weeds.
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Is it about 3 or 4 foot tall and bristly?
Looks like comphrey, Symphytum officinalis. Good for bees plant food and taking over the garden
In the sticks near Peterborough
And for making Comphrey tea (fertilizer)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Forgot the tea
and what about the broken bone mending? Isn't one of its common names knitbone?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yeah it is about 3 to 4 ft tall
comfrey - now is the moment to cut it down to the ground and leave the leaves to soak in bucket of water until it smells like pig dung. The mushy residue of leaves then goes in the compost bin and the liquid gets bottled and used as liquid fertiliser.
Does anyone know how many different colours it comes in? I have the pinkand white one.
Mine are roughly as pictured by Red. Some lighter or darker than others
I also have a low growing white one that excellent ground cover for a rough space and lovely blue one that's half way between the other 2 in size. The latter invades but is not so good at beating weeds.
In the sticks near Peterborough
but they are all useful in the compost bin if they get too invasive
It had absolutely no effect on my broken toe, which took nearly 5 months to mend.