About Comfrey
Rarely propagates from seed - the best way to spread it is to dig it up /disturb the roots. The best way to get rid of it is to put ducks on to forage. I planted a ring of comfrey around 40 trees in my orchard - was fantastic until the ducks went in - within 6 months not a single comfrey leaf to be seen.
Robyn
on 29/8/03 5:46 PM, sam bucus at samm_bucus@yahoo.com wrote:
the comfrey mulch issue is challenging. there were a variety of responses. i am maybe going to guess that those in warmer areas can develop a comfrey problem and those of us in colder areas may not have it as bad? maybe i am wrong. i know its hard to get rid of and i have worked with it alot. i havent heard of roots 6 feet deep and 15 feet wide, but i know its vigorous, to put it lightly. but in northern wisconsin it doesnt seem to spread so readily. maybe it is a cultivar issue, but a neighbor of mine has a comfrey plant in an abandoned garden. it grows every summer without help, but doesnt spread. we will see. i will always apply compost, but the idea of having a living mulch so close to the trees seems too good to pass up. and if i am cutting it regularly, maybe even three or four times a season for mulch, wont that take a lot of energy out of root growth and put it to leaf growth, which is what i w ant anyway, and should help reduce its ability to spread?
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