Big garden comfrey May 9, 2025 On Tuesday I wasn’t moving too fast. I got the post up and a load of dishes in the dishwasher before my helper friend arrived at 9:30AM. We collected our equipment and headed

Comfrey Used to be Called "Knitbone" It was called knitbone because of the plant's amazing ability to heal the body. It was used to help heal inflamation around sprains and broken bones, to aid

Three days after harvest. This thing is booming. That's another comfrey right next to it that's the same age, but not as big as this one was at harvest. I think I'll harvest it soon though and make some

Just as I suspected. The small shoots that had started yesterday are all coming up strong. I got out and mowed some today. Thinking the whole time how I need a fence and a couple sheep. A ram and a ewe

Yesterday we took our first ever comfrey harvest, and I'd like to chronicle the regrowth and other information day by day for posterity. For science. What was 14.6 ounces fresh turned into 1.9 dry ounces.

Today was our first official comfrey harvest from a root cutting that was planted last August. We've pulled damaged or yellow leaves before, but this time I harvested an entire plant. Our biggest out of

Huge fungal growth on a dead oak limb. Maybe a turkey tail or something? Looks like there might be some jelly fungus too, but idk. Baby comfrey poking out from leaf mulch. There's a bunch of these little

10.24.2018@11:33PM source Hello everyone! Today I will be sharing one of the best fertilizer to have in our yard. Well I really am hoping someone could tell me this is found in the area I am in or atleast

Tomorrow I'll post about the GSLs. They're becoming much more human friendly, but for now it's Koekoek again. This is where she sits when we walk the property. She jumped down to range a bit today. I was

Today on Bitcoin and . . . I talk about the death (again) of bitcoin and the uses of the plant named Comfrey.

Today, a package arrived. It's our project that we've been anticipating. We put in an order with Coe's Comfrey for ten root cuttings and ten crowns of Bocking 4 Comfrey. I tracked the package with USPS,

Turns out comfrey is much more picky where to grow and needs much more pampering that similar, native, deep rooted plants that also produce plenty of biomass without the constant need for water and care!

Comfrey, Symphytum officinale L., aka Blackwort, Bruisewort, Healing herb, Knitback, Knitbone, Ass-ear, is a hardy perennial herb you use the leaves from. It grows 3’ – 4’ high and can be found in wet

This plant was in the ground for a little under a year and I was able to get over 30 new plants. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

About a month and a half ago I received a comfrey crown from Nick Ferguson. I decided the planet it in a wicking pot in my aquaponics system. Knowing comfrey sends down deep roots I decided to check the

This is my first real post and a video about how we use comfrey on our small urban homestead. thanks for watching!

Uses for comfrey on an urban homestead

Inspired by the work of Lawrence D Hills (1911–1991) who undertook extensive research on comfrey during his lifetime, we decided to start some comfrey trials of our own to see just how much biomass these

There's a ton of info out there about comfrey but not much detail regarding establishing and managing a comfrey patch so I thought I'd write a post to share my experience on this and explain how we grow

On this episode of the Modern Homesteading Podcast I discuss the many uses of having comfrey on the homestead and why EVERY homesteader should probably be growing it, what variety to grow and where to