Comfrey - the companion plant everyone should grow

Comfrey is a beautiful and incredibly useful plant that every fruit and veg gardener should grow - and here's why!

[@SmallSeeds]

We love our comfrey! We use it as mulch, a compost activator and we make it into a healing herbal salve. The chickens like it too :)

[@podgardening]

Way to go Small Seeds!!

[@selfiopath1982]

Great tips! Comfrey also a great slug catcher. Just drop a few comfrey leaves on the ground and in the morning you’ll find all your slugs merrily cuddling to each other underneath. Pick them up gently and move your slugs away somewhere for the birds to eat. Your hostas are safe and your birds are fed )) I use a seedless variety of comfrey in my garden.

[@podgardening]

Hi nice tip re slugs! Yes Bocking 14 the sterile, seedless comfrey variety is the one we gardeners can use without fear of our gardens being over-run. Cheers

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Thank you for sharing your garden and knowledge with us. I’m a KZbin gardener too. It’s my 3rd year and ever year I try to get better. This year I’m trying intercropping/companion planting. I found your channel in my research. This is very helpful and I and so happy I found your channel because it has so much to offer. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!

[@nanacybersliver8411]

Ate comfrey throughout my pregnancy and walked everywhere. Healthy properties in the Comfrey. After I had my son. I lost weight of 10kilos from walking and eating comfrey for 9months Excellent herbs for glowing skin and hair and Liver cleanses people🙄😋

[@cigileyAtTR]

I had a feeling it was safe to eat. a lot of sources try to say its not. How much per day and which parts did you eat?

[@gelandadunbar1182]

I thought one couldn't eat it.

[@mawmawshomesteadpreparedness]

I heard eating to much could cause liver toxicity.

[@carisacarrasco7406]

If you Google search it here in the US they say it causes Liver damage , but we know how they twist and lie to keep us going to drs

[@fancythat5136]

I’m wondering if it was something else she ate. Drinking comfrey Tea is fine. Maybe she meant tea while pregnant.

[@pamstout]

Loved your drawings. I missed my comfrey, forgot to bring some with me when I moved. Just got 3 small plants so I can't wait to get them growing.

[@camrillem]

I love your drawings, they make the ideas flow off the page

[@podgardening]

Thanks - glad you like them

[@omarialden9695]

Instablaster.

[@michaeldougfir9807]

My sister sent me the link to this. I'm not a gardener, but am an arborist. So I'm learning. So I thank you for this presentation.

[@philstebbing]

Another top notch production, thanks, learning so much.

[@lala9899]

Thank you for the good info!

[@poodlepup1]

hello from Australia... just found your channel after searching for comfrey info..... terrific diagram at the beginning.... basic understanding .....thank you.

[@hoosierpreppingnurse]

Today I read that comfrey spray is good to get rid of or prevent powdery mildew. I’m going to dedicate one of the squash plants this year and give it a try.

[@oregon32nursenurse43]

Thank you for the knowledge. I’ve ordered comfrey seeds (or roots) and I’m very excited to get going on growing comfrey under all my fruit trees 🌳👍🏽

[@cdoyly]

Really interesting and informative. I love the accompanying sketch stories.

[@podgardening]

D'Oyl!!!

[@KatTavolacci]

Thanks, Love your drawings!

[@petergilfillan8340]

Great advice. Very clearly presented and informative. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia ; )

[@creamsodayoda]

I subscribed because I loved your drawings! Also thank you for the comfrey info. I just bought 5 root cuttings and can't wait to plant them.

[@3bouldersurban653]

Your comfrey are tall ,man!! Wow

[@dashson7560]

Quick informative and to the point.

[@Jowdee]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@podgardening]

Pleasure, glad you found our Comfrey vid interesting

[@cptseagull]

What a fantastic video 🙏🏼

[@djladydean]

Excellent! Thank you

[@podgardening]

You are welcome!

[@paulmiley7799]

Thank you for this video.

[@podgardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Meowbay]

We've actually seen center roots of Bocking 14 that were 6 meters deep into the ground. If the soil is penetrable enough (which for Bocking 14 it is where we live) it can reach way deeper than 3m.

[@xxDADDYDAYCARExx]

If your job doesn't involve being paid for your artwork.... It should do!!!! If no-one else has said it I will, thanks for the extra effort involved doing the explanatory graphic work.... I for one appreciate the effort and skill. 👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍♥️🇨🇮👍

[@podgardening]

Thanks!

[@OutWestHomestead]

I love growing comfrey. Susie

[@stephyclaws]

Wow Amazing thank you

[@podgardening]

Most welcome 😊

[@krystalshomesteadadventure5077]

Our comfrey is on its way ♥️ We had a hard time locating it in our area, and have just recently found it through trade.

[@podgardening]

Great - enjoying growing a great companion plant Krystal!

[@TinF0ilTango]

Hi there, great video -thank you! I have a garden which floods from the River Severn every year, I'm worried about pesticides, and also sewage as it floods through the drains and sewers for the town. If I grow comfrey in this garden, can I still use it in my organic compost do you think? Or will the 'bad stuff' from the soil be transferred into the leaves?

[@kendo54dickibird97]

Hi comfrey is great ,I just pop comfrey in a water barrel (no water)and put a chicken feeder nozzle underneath put weight on it and NO smell just pure comfrey juice and no stringy bits to block your watering can nozzle up.

[@podgardening]

Great tip. Thanks for sharing!

[@geriannroth449]

Great info I just hot my first comfrey plant today so I'm going to pot it up in an old washing machine drum with the bottom cut off

[@podgardening]

Perfect - great idea!

[@gafairbanks2434]

Why? Would make it hard to dig for transplants and sharing. Mine is from my Grandmother's garden & over 120 yrs. old. Every 10 to 12 years I dig 1/2 up to give friends or move around the garden. Over 7 feet tall and this year it has bloomed for the 3rd time in Aug./ Sept. 2022 A must have to keep my bees happy year round.

[@SpaceLifeSelfSufficiency]

epic videos my friend! keep up the great stuff, friends?😀👍😀👍😀👍

[@boohoo210]

That comfrey it's huge! What strain is it? Blocking 14 by chance? Great video

[@podgardening]

Hi yes Bocking 14 so no seeding everywhere in the garden. Just the right plant where you want it! Cheers

[@poodlepup1]

wish you were in Ausi... would ask you around to help me understand what is happening in my vegie garden...... :)

[@francesgannon8990]

Will my bush beans grow in my raised garden bed even though the soil is full comfrey roots?

[@pinesparrow]

Why not apply ferment airlocks and once it's done fermenting then apply?

[@mangofever4681]

Hello, Have you tried pouring in some molasses in the tea mix? It may change the smell...........

[@elwood212]

Do you know why my comfrey isn’t getting off the ground? It remains a ground cover. 🇦🇺

[@q695]

Do they go that deep in a fairly high water table?

[@davidosullivan3432]

great info how long does the comfrey tea last once fermented

[@podgardening]

I would say at least 6 months to a year - if kept covered in a cool, shady spot

[@NWTejas]

How is it as a forage?

[@judithmartinenriquez491]

How do you get it to be so tall?

[@chrisblack5795]

It's very invasive...as for the tea...dilute 1 to 100 if older and 1 to 200 if younger in fermenting. Dilute at the rate he said will burn plants..use as a soil drench only and do not folliar feed it...will burn the leaves ...

[@francesgannon8990]

It is invasive in my raised bed! I have pruned it back. I want to plant my bush beans there but I’m afraid the roots will choke out my beans if I plant them????

[@badtoad6865]

Will it thrive in central Virginia

[@Mister.Doodler]

Thankyou. I am from India. Can you send me 3-5 roots here for planting?

[@judyharris7947]

When does comfrey flower & does leaves get really big? My husband tried to get it started several years ago.

[@podgardening]

Comfrey flowers from early to mid spring depending on location. The leaves can get up to 30cm long

[@lizsave7204]

Can comfrey be planting among blueberry bushes? I am getting conflicting information on that as some articles say it makes you soil more alkaline and blueberries like acidic soil. What are your thoughts?

[@podgardening]

The only issue with planting comfrey around any other plants is that it can take over and you'll unlikely to get rid of it 😊

[@yashsankhla9617]

got a question, can the dried root be used to propagate a new plant? Want to grow the plant but only the dried root is availablle.

[@podgardening]

I don't think dried root will re-shoot.

[@peace4peaceful]

Trying to grow some. My soil is 9nly about 1 foot deep. Then its sand then its rock hard sand 1m down. Will it be ok?

[@podgardening]

Hi John, yes comfrey should be just fine - it will find its way down through the layers.Good luck

[@peaceandlove5214]

Beautiful plant but how many times you can cut it?

[@podgardening]

A lot

[@ivaknezevic6752]

Helo. Can It be spayed on the leaves or onli in the root Thank you

[@podgardening]

Yes by all means spray on leaves as a foliar feed.

[@jillflorance9551]

Anyone know answer to below ?

[@jillflorance9551]

Saying elderly should not use. My Mom had fractures and I put Bruise,, Tear, Repair which contains comfrey on her? Is it ok to use as long as less than 10 days ?

[@podgardening]

Hi we can't advise you on this I am afraid.

[@mashudmohammed2417]

Please can I get comfrey seed to buy from you. I am in Ghana

[@cassieoz1702]

It's horrendous stuff. It seeds everywhere, grows so thick it's threatening to strangle all the lower storeys of my food forest and is UNKILLABLE.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Only plant it where u want it to take over It’s so good for so many things so it’s very prolific

[@cassieoz1702]

@YeshuaKingMessiah it's a weed. It's spread over my 1.5 acres and I'm worried it'll escape into the bush around me. It was sold to me by a reputable nursery as Bocking 14 which should have sterile seeds but it clearly ISNT!

[@39kimkim]

hi do you sale fresh comfrey leaves

[@podgardening]

Sorry no we don't sell plants. You should be able to get some at your nearest garden centre.

[@jasonlee2323]

eBay and Etsy are good options; I just checked and for about 20 dollars you can get 10 pieces of the Bocking 14 cultivar.

[@godfreydebouillon8807]

It seems we should be planting the all over, and reduce the dependence on artificial fertilizer, much of which comes from Russia. Nothing against the Russian people by saying that, just it's good to have independence

[@loopy7057]

Can't be that great, I have never had in my life heard of it haha

[@michaelmcguinness10]

You have the right name there loopy

[@blackjesus2367]

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[@Lvaladez114]

😂

[@gmog7857]

Who said Europeans brought CONFREYS with them to the Americas? Its a lie, they did not even know how to farm before coming to the Americas🤠🤠🤠

[@nowirehangers2815]

Of course they did. What nonsense!

[@Oughut88]

If they didn’t know how to farm how did the European civilisation exist?

[@MIKExMASSACREx]

Can’t lie i had to cringe when he said English “immigrants” took it around the world.....I think he meant to say English colonizers 😂

[@nowirehangers2815]

Lucky for everyone now we have civilisation

[@MIKExMASSACREx]

@@nowirehangers2815 huh?