Planting comfrey to the field before the fruit trees?

Edit2: Ha, no replies yet and I kind of found my answers already so I’m going to be sneaky and change the whole topic! Muahaha.

I found a source for Bocking 14 in Finland, yaaaaay!

Now I’m thinking where to plant them. The field where I’m going to plant apple and pear trees would be the smartest place I guess.

Would it be not wise to plant comfrey in a C shape in places I’m planning to plant apple trees? The trees (and apple seeds, I’m doing both) would be planted in the middle of the C and the C shaped comfrey area would be downslope from the tree. The slope is just a slight, slight slope.

And to make it clearer, every tree would have its own half a ring of comfrey plants. How big this comfrey C should be?

Any ideas? Thank you!


But how does it handle heat and full sun? Does it want to be in part shade? What does it need?

There’s an option for 10 or 40 root cuttings, I’m just wondering if I have enough good spots to plant the 40 cuttings..

Oh fellow Permies, do help me!

Edit: Well, the similar threads came to the rescue, I guess comfrey handles a lot.. I would like to hear your experiences though, in planting these.. Should I grow them in pots first or just stick them in the ground? Although if I get 40 cuttings I could do both…

glad you found the other posts .. it does handle a lot ;-)

be sure it gets enough water
with 40 cuttings try both ground and pots to get started for sure

once you get some established yo can dig it up and make your own cuttings.. you biggest and best will have to be in the ground the taproot can get VEEERRRY long!!

best of luck - cheers!