Martha In the Garden

I knew I could propagate them from root cuttings, I now have a deeper respect for the tenacity of comfrey!

Anne Miller wrote:I like the idea of using the sprouts as liquid fertilizer.

I also thought maybe the sprouts could be moved to a better location.

I fed them to the chooks- they were happy!😁

I didn’t grow it from seed, I bought cuttings, and I understood them to be sterile, hence my surprise.

Thanks for the helpful info, I definitely don’t want it to take over, but it’s a pretty nice plant for chooks, fertilizer, medicine, etc.

Hey, I chopped and dropped comfrey into my garlic beds and now I’m getting comfrey sprouts all over the place! Any advice? I’m now afeared to propagate it further.  

These are Russian bocking 14 from Strictly Medicinal Seeds that I planted 14 months ago. I have 2 very nice patches and I was planning to put a clump under each of our food forest trees, as well as a few near my apiary (which I’m in the midst of building)

Why are they sprouting from leaves I pulled and used as fertilizer in October? Could it be that I yanked the leaves out, vs snipped? Thanks for any advice.