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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 feed the soil 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 three to four crops of the full-grown leaves a year, cutting the leaves down to ground level each time. They quickly start into growth again.

 

      Being herbaceous, frost destroys the top growth but the plant produces new leaves in the spring.

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 cuttings will be sent with a small piece of parent root which has formed roots and there will be two or three young leaves already developed. From the tip of the leaves to end of the root will be about three and a half to five inches long. Plant up as with any young plant.

OR I can supply root divisions. - These are root divisions taken from plants that are one or more years old, have a rooted portion of the parent plant and at least one developing shoot.; they will give a quicker established plant.

               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.

          My price includes postage.

          Minimum order should be at least five root cuttings. And then in multiples of five.

         They are posted shaken free of soil.

         Rooted cuttings. : - 5 for £9.00       Plant on arrival but they will keep well              Root divisions - 5 for £15.00

                                                               for a few days if it is raining.

                                   10 for  £16.00      Plant with the soil up to the base of                                       10 for £25.00

                                                               the leaves.

                                   25 for £35.00                                                                                                   25 for £60.00    

                                   50 for £65.00                                                                                                   50 for £100.00

                                 100 for £120.00                                                                                                100 for £200.00

         Cheque only please, payable to J.A.Wood.  First class postage within the UK is paid by me ! !

         Send to J.A.Wood

                      6 Stanley Street,

                      Beaumaris,

                      Anglesey     LL 58 8 ET.   (Telephone: 01248 810 661)

                        and your comfrey will be sent immediately by post.

                                                     Thank you.