Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Hi Cheri,

If it wouldn't be too much trouble I would be more than glad to pay the
postage plus a little for your trouble. Email me direct and I'll send you my
address. Thanks.

Art    art_c@cox.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Shelnutt" <cshel4@adelphia.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Where can you get comfrey?


> Art,
> As I stated earlier - I would be glad to send comfrey roots to anyone
> who would like them - I will send them out next week - no charge but
> a reimbursement for the actual cost of postage would be appreciated.
> Cheri
>
> On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Art Corbit wrote:
>
> > 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
> >> www.themodernhomestead.us
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Livingontheland mailing list
> >> Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Livingontheland mailing list
> > Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
>
> _______________________________________________
> Livingontheland mailing list
> Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland