Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

Don't believe all the "bad" things you hear about comfrey.  I grow it and
feed it to my goats.  it is toxic only in large amts.  I also use it as a
wrap for sprained ankles, etc on me or the goats.  Great stuff, wouldn't be
without it.  I do grow it here in AR in a tub though as it tends to get out
of hand.  At my farm in Illinois it just grows in the garden.  I am thinking
this year I will have to pull it back some.

Barbara
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Meadows" <pat@meadows.pair.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Greywater chemistry


> On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:58:49 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Here's a suggestion: use it to fertilize grass to be composted and later
worked into the food garden.
> >
>
> You could use it to fertilize comfrey and then make compost
> from the comfrey.  Comfrey is supposed to make great
> compost, plus it grows big.
>
> Comfrey either is or is not safe to eat, depending on what
> you read.  (Probably not - it can cause liver cancer
> apparently - eating comfrey is not worth risking liver
> cancer.)  But all seem to agree that it's great for compost.
>
> I don't have a comfrey plant, but I'm going to get one soon.
>
> Pat
> -- 
> Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
>
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