Comfrey leaves

Does anybody out there use comfrey leaves as a liquid fertiliser. And if you do what sort of results does it give you.
Terry

 

I've big beds of both comfrey and nettles and several ex-cold water storage tanks in which I steep the entire plants (stems and leaves) making the liquid feed as strong as possible, then diluting to the colour of tea. I also hang ex-onion sacks of well rotted horse poo in the tanks (sheep poo is also good stuff). The residue left after all the feed has gone is used as a mulch.

I believe they all work as well as expensive shop bought products, and it's free (my favourite price), but it really does stink. So I don't use it on stuff like salad leaves shortly before eating, and it can get rather smelly if used on poly tunnel borders in hot weather, etc. I was using it earlier this afternoon and my wife has just confirmed she can smell it on me.

You can also chuck pernicious weeds/roots into a bucket of water to rot and make feed, plus there's another source of free plant food, 'Liquid Gold' - Google ISBN 9781903998489.

 

Yes i do it too but not on such a big scale as Scrungee. I just use the leaves in a bucket filled half full with cold water. I'm just about to plant some russion comfry in a small patch in my garden too. It sure smells! but good free stuff. Think I will start using the stems too.

 

And I forgot to mention the flies and rat tailed maggots!

 

My comfrey water is so strong it's killed the rat-tailed maggots!



But also means I now have to undergo a deep cleansing session after using it.

 

OMG they are gross, hope theres none of them in mine!!

 

ive just been searching on ebay as i was thinking of getting more comfrey plants,i only have 1 which is over abused for my tomato plants ...but i find on there that there are 2 differant kinds ?bocking 14 and symphytum officinale ?? does anybody know if 1 is better than the other please? thanks x

 

In the Weekend television guide, published with the Daily Mail on Saturday, Monty Don writes a gardening page, and this week is about using comfrey leaf ' tea '.

My interest wained when I got to the bit where he said -