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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Now, EVERYTHING is dangerous. In the past comfrey tea was used as a treatment for broken bones. Hence the name knitbone. 

    I wonder what sort Alan has. 2 foot tall and doesn't set seed. That's not Symphytum officinalis is itimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • I should think it'll be the Bocking 14 strain - think it's a type of Russian comfrey.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.






  • Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Alan4711Alan4711 Posts: 1,657

    Morning folks , REF comfrey ,I got the info from the net, I put the address in ,I could never write so nicely as that,No it was only net info to help anyone and then they could as it said read moreif they wanted,a good writer im Not ,no the last bit was mine ,as Edd says i also get 3/4 cuttings of it and at the moment i have 1 dustbin full of Comfrey Tea and one full of Seaweed tea for the coming year, up the allotment they as Dove says have Bocking 14 apparently non invasive,I must say if i let mine go free it becomes very strong and spreads like Wotsit,  and as said I wouldn't be without it and Free, info please did I do right putting up the Central heating radiators i bought ,as they were so cheap I wanted to let people know,Not gardening but hey good info money saver, Its sunny erein Muns N Norfolk cold mind you and dry,greenhouse at 10 and unheated,imageimage 

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