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Comfrey tea

 
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Don't know if this is the right place to post this.
I have quite a bit of comfrey, would it be worthwhile to harvest a lot of it now, before a frost, and make tea.  Allowing it to ferment outside over the winter to be used next spring.  I'm in zone 7a so it would probably freeze, maybe solid for a short period, but most of the winter it would be liquid.  It wouldn't ferment much, if at all, at the cold temps but maybe startup early next spring in time to use it for transplants and seedlings.
Or would it be better to just chop and drop. add to fall leaves or just leave it instead of removing the leaves this late.
 
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I assume you are talking about making compost tea from comfrey.

I cant answer your question so I thought I would offer some threads that might be of interest to you and others:

https://permies.com/t/1174/comfrey

https://permies.com/t/45102/permaculture/Cautious-comfrey-advise-reassure

https://permies.com/t/241431/plant-comfrey
 
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