Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>]

Thanks Harvey,

I found one place on the net that sells it for $2 plus postage per root. If
I can't find it cheaper I'll try it.

Art


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Where can you get comfrey?


> > Harvey,
> >
> > I have been trying to find a picture of this comfrey but haven't been
able
> > to yet. If I have seen it before I didn't know what it was. It sounds
like
> > something a person could grow in fence rows and use for compost. If you
have
> > a link to a picture of it please post it.
> >
> > Art
>
> Yes, comfrey is great for planting along fences, hedgerows, as ground
> cover in the orchard, and other nooks and corners not needed for crops.
> (Just remember that, wherever you put it, it's going to pretty much be
> there from now on--you won't eradicate it from that spot without a fight.)
>
> And yes, it's great for the compost heap, also for mulches, also for
> making a fertilizing herbal tea you can use to feed plantings, also for
> feeding livestock (my chickens like it, my geese *love* it)--and on and
> on. It is a tremendously useful plant.
>
> Paul has already given a link for a pic. A Google of "comfrey picture"
> turned up dozens of picture links.
>
> ~Harvey
> --
> Harvey in northern Va
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