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   Organic Russian Comfrey. (Bocking 14.)

   Root cuttings for sale.

              I use comfrey leaves in four ways : -

•  As a liquid feed by stuffing a plastic barrel or tub with the leaves and covering with water and leaving them for a few weeks. The resultant liquid needs diluting one part comfrey juice to about 16 parts water to give a very well balanced liquid feed for anything in pots or an outdoor crop. You can add more leaves after that at any time, top up with water and use immediately.

•  Added to the compost heap they rot down quickly, speed up the composting process and add their feed value to the compost.

•  Dug in under any crop with or without other compost.

•  Laid on the soil surface to act as a mulch and plant feed at the same time – again rotting down quickly.

If you look on the internet under ‘comfrey' you will find a number of entries telling you all about the value of comfrey so I need not repeat it here.

      I mulch my comfrey bed with lawn grass cuttings and feed it with nitrogen (Bone meal   or you can use chicken manure – organic or not depending on how particular you are.)

      I get at least four cuttings of the full-grown leaves a year and feed the nitrogen after each cutting.

I grow my comfrey in rows about 1 metre (3 feet) apart with 20cm (8 inches) between plants to get a continuous row of comfrey that gives a good crop.

               Your root cuttings will arrive with their leaves cut back. This is beceause they wilt as soon as dug up and do not travel so well. Once planted and watered in they will rapidly develop leaves.

               This variety of comfrey does not spread to other parts of the garden where you do not want it. The flowers are sterile, unlike the wild comfrey so it will not shed any seeds that will grow. Its leaves are particularly vigourous.

          Root cuttings with their leaves cut back ready to be posted. Shown about half life-size.

          My price includes postage.

          Minimum order should be at least five root cuttings.

         They are posted shaken free of soil.

         Root cuttings. : - 5 for £8.00    Plant on arrival but they will keep well

                                                          for a few days if it is raining.

                                   10 for  £15.00    Plant with the soil up to the base of

                                                             the leaves.

                                   25 for £35.00

                                   50 for £60.00

                                   100 for £100.00

                                   500 for £450.00

         Cheque only please, payable to J.A.Wood.

         Send to J.A.Wood

                      6 Stanley Street,

                      Beaumaris,

                      Anglesey     LL 58 8 ET.

                        and your comfrey will be sent immediately by post.

                                                     Thank you.