Growing Elderberry & Comfrey From Cuttings! PLUS Where to Source them??

#comfrey #elderberry #herbalism
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[@yasminnilima2366]

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[@user-rk4if6qx8i]

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[@Miasunshine1163]

Thank you so much for sharing! Love your videos, I learn so much.

[@lisaking7801]

Elderberry leaves are great in a bruize spritze for deep bruses or not deep. It does work with the other herbs in the spritze it works amazingly

[@TheHoneystead]

Ohh yes!! I haven't tried it personally, but have read that the leaves are wonderful as well!

[@garyRt23Bees]

Elders end up growing so tall that when they fruit out they can be so heavy it causes the branches to split and may die so I prune them. You can take the pruned branches and simply push the cut end into the dirt and let them go. I probably get a 90% take using this method. They start easy ! They just love water! A ditch line or a creekbank are ideal locations.

[@happy_times01]

Yes!!!!

[@meghanbills6638]

That is so good to hear!! I so want to start some but my lawn has been so wet for the past year and a half. My only other concern is that I have several black walnut trees, and I know that not all plants can thrive with the jugulone.

[@garyRt23Bees]

@@meghanbills6638 My walnuts and elders do fine right next to each other. The wetter the ground the better for elders.

[@River-kb5gl]

I have heard that comfrey is great to plant near your fruit tree, because it helps to bring up the things that your trees need to stay healthy. Have you heard of that?

[@-em_]

I’ll have to look into that since I just planted an orchard

[@happy_times01]

Yes! That is true! I did it to mine this year! Will update later!

[@leahscott6347]

Yes! Comfrey is a nitrogen fixing plant and is great to plant near or with your fruit trees. Also rhubarb and lupin are nitrogen fixers. Added bonus, they’re beautiful!

[@albanymountainhomestead]

If you plant the elderberry cutting where the node (where the leaves sprout) is just below ground level the leaves and roots will develop at that spot. If your cutting has 2 nodes you can bury 1 and leave the other above the ground. It depends on how it was cutting. When I cut my own cuttings I want at least 3 inches above and below the node (so it doesn't dry out too fash and plant directly in soil. You get more cuttings if the nodes are more than 6 inches apart. Otherwise I'll keep 2 nodes to a cutting. The woody part of the plant has the best chance at growing the top of the elderberry were the stem is less dense doesn't make a good cutting so I will utilize the top 12 inches for a cutting. This is what I've learned through many mistakes of my own. I put my cuttings in a pot (early fall after elderberry harveat)of soil so I can control watering better than in the ground. Once there's good growth I plant in the ground (cuttings in the spring once the plants sprout new leaves) after the threat of frost).

[@SamStormbornOrmandy]

Thank you for teaching us something old Kaylee, much appreciated! 🌱💚🌿

[@TheHoneystead]

You are so welcome!

[@beckypeak9373]

Have been on my property for 7 years. I had burn pile that I wanted to move, and oh my goodness athe edge, I found a plant and thought to look it up, and oh my goodness, it was an elderberry. I am so excited.

[@happy_times01]

That IS exciting! Good for you!!! Now you can take cuttings from it after it gets established, and plant more trees/bushes!

[@beckypeak9373]

@@happy_times01 I have found a 3rd elderberry, I am beyond excited.

[@jvin248]

What I've found to increase rooting success (I have grapes and willow currently) is get maple/oak leaf mulch/compost by either piling up your leaves or scraping some leaf covered soil from around a tree and using that as potting soil. The high percentage of biology and beneficial fungus and slight tannic acidity from the leaves will help sprouting.

[@happy_times01]

Nice suggestion!!!! Thank you! 🙏

[@karenfrankland7763]

We grow black elderberry in our suburban lot. Every year we cut it back to 6 inches above ground in end of Jan or early Feb. We end up with well over 100 cuttings which we root and pot up and sell. The bigger stems we just put in the ground.

[@happy_times01]

Wow! Great idea! 👍

[@Traditional_Wife1972]

My comfrey doesn’t like the full sun here in Tx. It does so much better in the shade even though the tag said full sun.

[@KimberlySafi-sk7qj]

Same I’m in 10b in S.FL and have two, the one in partial shade is growing much better than the one in full sun

[@happy_times01]

Wow! The wild comfrey in my area of the Midwest grows in the woods. So that doesn't surprise me!

[@emmaleighpaige696]

Glad to hear this! I’m in Texas and I’ve been wanting to grow some but running out of full sun spots for my plants. Plenty of shady garden area left though!

[@rhondatrumier5530]

I like the herbal videos best. This one is fun as I too have elderberry cuttings started

[@marilynmiller9864]

Plant comfrey in its forever home. Every little piece of root will grow. The best way to propagate it is to try to get rid of it!😂

[@gardenhawk]

😂😂😂 that is why in got Russian Bocking 14, so I will only have to deal with it spreading through the ground and not by seed as well.

[@happy_times01]

Hahahaha! Too funny!!!

[@apocalypsegardens]

My comfrey has white flowers. I'm going to have to find some purple ones now.

[@happy_times01]

You probably have the wild comfrey then, which is what the Indians used. The purple flowered ones are actually a hybrid. Not GMO though! I forget the scientific names, but it's easy to find out. 👍

[@irishk.1041]

We have wild elderberries here on the mountain. Almost have to have a ladder to harvest berries (deer & moose LOVE them too hence. why they are SO tall - the moose). Will be hiking and getting some cuttings for my orchard area (all 8' fenced). Great plants. But BEWARE the 4 footed beauties that love them too :).

[@happy_times01]

Yup! Our 4 legged friends love them too!!!

[@andrewhammill6148]

I got my comfrey cuttings from Perma Pastures Farm about 1 1/2 years ago. Shoved them in a couple of my raised beds around the edges and they grew fast. Made Comfrey Salve last year and still have a bunch of tins left. I would do elderberries too, but there isn't any room in my garden for a tree. And I couldn't plant it on the property unless it was 100% deer proof.

[@jennbama]

I got mine from Billy too. Mine were quite large so I cut them again and man, the comfrey I have now. Wow!

[@heathernotzdaniels6350]

I have twenty elderberry bushes growing on a quarter acre lot. Our first year, the deer came along and ate down one bush out of all the ones planted. For some reason just that one bush. It grew back. This is year seven for us to have them. We cut them down every other season, and that little bush is finally as big as the rest. And we still have the deer, they know and love my garden very well. Haha. I just make some concessions for them and also have the crucial things deeply protected, along with a nice wire fence around my full garden space.

[@happy_times01]

Yes, the deer also eat on one of my bushes! It's still hanging in there! Every year it grows back, and every year the deer eat it down to a branch! Lol... I do try to plant other things for them to eat! Like turnips and beets. They also like comfrey! If you plant a lot of that, they might leave the elders alone? 🤔

[@bridgetphillips7462]

That's where I got my comfrey as well. They're fabulous. Growing large and healthy.

[@corbinprydwen4130]

I’m so envious of your garden. I know it’s years of hard work and I’m just getting there. But you are well established and your garden is beautiful. ❤

[@kenneth-balfour]

What a beautiful lifestyle ❤

[@sevnthhevn]

THANK YOU for this video!! My local nursery didn’t get any of their seeds to germinate so I tried and two weeks later no growth that I can see yet. I was getting discouraged that I wouldn’t get the comfrey I wanted this year, even after working a deal with my neighbor beekeeper to trade beeswax for salve! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I ordered some comfrey and elderberry!!

[@hippychick7798]

West coast seeds seems to have comfrey. I haven’t seen it in a store amongst the other seeds but online shows they carry it.

[@-em_]

Ooh I didn’t know about the elderberry cuttings, I’m going to have to try it out and give some to friends 💜🌿

[@jipm]

A farm I used to work on several years ago grew and used comfrey as a organic liquid fertiliser, it was great for saplings. Had around 40 large plants. Take the lower leaves off and put them in a raised large water butt. When it was time to use the liquid fertiliser we used 500mills of liquid comfrey to 5lts of warm water. And we had many 1 litre containers full of comfrey juice ready to go

[@TheHoneystead]

That is sooo awesome!!! I have to try this!

[@jipm]

@@TheHoneystead awesome, let me know how you get on 😃👍

[@happy_times01]

Yes! It absolutely is a great fertilizer! Warning, it's very stinky!

[@samuel56551]

Yes , comfrey makes an excellent fertiliser .

[@AK-st1vn]

I was so blessed last year to get comfrey from one of my very best friends. I LOVE it!!

[@sherrybaldovino571]

Kailey, I think, you meant to say that comfrey is also called "knitbone" not boneset. Boneset is a common name for eupatorium perfolatium, aka rabbit tobacco 😊. Now, correct me if I am wrong 😂

[@TheHoneystead]

Yes it is also called knitbone and boneset as well :)

[@happy_times01]

I too know it as Boneset. It's great for fractures on down to bruises!

[@dcsblessedbees]

One of the native Elders up here in the NW get up to full on trees size. Great pollen producers, I have 4 that are on their 3rd year and a bunch I have been rooting in a grow area over the Winter.

[@happy_times01]

Wow! That's awesome! 💛

[@Godisincontrol325]

😃🎉 Excellent I subscribed to your channel 🙏

[@ccgardner-ss3xn]

Thanks 💙

[@Fayesfuncreations]

Thank you for sharing all of this information. As a beekeeper myself, I'm always looking for more to add to my apiary for "bee food".

[@happy_times01]

Oh! That's what an apiary is!!! I was wondering!?! That was my guess though! I'm new to bee info.

[@happy_times01]

But, I too look out for food for the bees! Before last year, there weren't many bees at all, which worried me! Thankfully, I've been seeing more and more bees in my area! I love my girls too! Even though I don't actually bee keep.. 😉

[@septembercindy]

I’m just starting elderberry in Florida

[@KimberlySafi-sk7qj]

It’s everywhere around me in S.FL… we are also very lucky once yours gets established I’ve noticed we have either flowers or berries most of the year!!! I haven’t had much luck at the house in the borders, but I’ve heard it grows well in wet areas, so I’ll try again, let me know how yours do @septembercindy

[@happy_times01]

Nice!!!

[@brendal1957]

Everything is looking great on your homestead!!! :)

[@samuel56551]

Your videos about medicinal plants are great . Well done .

[@charlesbale8376]

Information I can use in my garden...Thanks for sharing.

[@Ks-cn4lq]

Comfrey seeds needs to be refrigerated for 30 days in moist soil.. put it in a ziploc bag and I used a spoon to scoop it out and put it in a pot with dry Soil right on top.. they germinated within 7-10 days .. I spritzed with water to keep it moist .. no need to water the seeds in refrigerator cause it will keep it moist

[@happy_times01]

Yes! That's how I got my seeds to take! Only I didn't refrigerate for 30 days, only a week!

[@elsathal7359]

Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟

[@DwarfComic]

5:03 That isn't a little fella! That's big ol Beorn size bee! Big fella!

[@TheBanjoman]

Thanks Kaylee for this video. I just placed my order for elderbery & comfrey.

[@rk-xv4km]

Good morning😊

[@lisawatson3467]

Now did you say it’s from the cutting from roots? Loving the idea of the elderberry grove

[@happy_times01]

Not root cuttings for Elderberry. Plant cuttings. For comfrey, root cuttings. 👍🙏

[@emummy2]

once you have comfrey its hard to kill them. (Once they're established) I have successfully taken pieces from my comfrey roots (where the new plants shoot up from). I have also had good success in using the stalk with a growth band on it. I feed comfrey leaves to my chickens occasionally and will cut the stem into segments with a wider growth band on each piece and push them into the dirt. Its not 100% but good enought that I'm willing to take the time to do it.

[@sinsingmusic]

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[@riverboat28]

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[@Florida0003]

Why u always looking good 😉

[@bugil1216]

I was lucky enough to have a sister while she lived in a local tree farm, share some comfrey plants. since then I have shared some plants. They grow wonderfully and the bees love them. I even made a salve from them.

[@brettkennedy8832]

From what I’ve researched the blocking 14 seeds will not grow they are a hybrid not sure if that is what yours are but that might be the reason

[@09echols]

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[@victoriaboulay6952]

Where did you buy your garden knife? Recommendation? Thank you.

[@sherrybaldovino571]

Do you have comfrey plants that have started from seed from your original plants? Will they spread readily from seed?

[@klm4135]

I love comfrey and look forward to using elderberry....QUESTION; do you make elderberry tinctures and sell them? Right now I live in an apt and will have land in another 2 yrs,..

[@mio.giardino]

I’m growing Russian comfrey and it’s propagated by root cuttings only. I was told to stay away from the self seeding ones or they could take over.

[@gardenhawk]

Agreed!!!

[@mpedals]

I just cut properly and leave in a bucket of water, will grow roots, iits easy peasy

[@cheryl4860]

How many eldeberry plants or cuttings does one need to use medicinally for apothacary?

[@annphilbeck5174]

that's how I started mine.. from cuttings. is it the leaves or flowers in comfrey that has the most nutrients?😊😊

[@michaelmueller4946]

Do you have a problem with birds eating your elderberries?

[@forestdweller-111]

Do you think elderberry and or comfrey could grow good in northern Michigan...zone 5a?

[@ashleighschenke2258]

Hiii I have a question, my husband bought me an elderberry tree, SAMBUCUS NIGRA ‘BLACK LACE’ ELDERBERRY. Is this version safe/beneficial to harvest berries from to make medicinal syrups? Which is my intended purpose of the plant. I know there is different types of plants. Would love your feedback before planting! Thanks in advance and love learning from you!

[@overbeefineart2974]

Do you need more than one elder plant for them to produce berries?

[@Brendasan23]

How can I start echinacea? Mine never started with seeds

[@6140970]

Just wondering if I can establish elderberry in a large pot, as I am a renter and want to move them with me uf need be

[@bigdc9092]

Yes you can!

[@susanpuckett4521]

Thank you for your wonderful videos! My son and daughter in law are starting their homestead...slowly planting and growing and have added chickens and pot belly pigs! I'd love to get my daughter in law that tool you are using in this video for her. Can you post a link or the name of it? Please and thank you! Keep these wonderful videos coming!! We love you!

[@TheHoneystead]

Ohh how cool! Here is the link :) shop.growingfarmers.com/?ref=wesuhire

[@fizer718]

I always known bone set to be goldenrod/ bone knit

[@amymartin7508]

Our bees and hubby bee whisperingnis going well. I still dont have the comfry and elderberry growing.... there is alsways something.

[@jaredwebster3620]

I never see our bees on our elder berries. I wonder if the variety makes a difference

[@tomasmoreno9088]

I've been trying to grow elderberry from seeds. But haven't had any luck. Do they need to be cold stratified?

[@TheHoneystead]

I do believe

[@pegasus3970]

I really like the tool you were using to plant the comfrey. I followed the link you gave to another commenter, but couldn't find the knife. Could you provide a link or spell out the name so I can do an online search. Thank you

[@SpeedBump7807]

Hori Hori Garden Knife from a variety of suppliers.

[@cindiemounsey4166]

The comfrey root that is being used in this video could have been broken into 3 cuttings for more plants. Comfrey doesn't start well from seed. I have comfrey growing everywhere from using 2" root cuttings.

[@TheHoneystead]

🙌

[@leahscott6347]

If you have nearby community gardens they are a great resource for acquiring plants. I will take very small cuttings from plants like elderberry, raspberry’s, fruit trees even kiwi. I refuse to buy plants or soil!

[@Seasoncromwell]

Looks like most are out of stock for this time of year. I'm in Near DC. Any chance you'd sell me some of yours? (To grow)

[@rayfelts6356]

For the algorithm

[@lindajohnson1035]

Can you give contact info for where you got your Comfrey cuttings and Elderberry?

[@TheHoneystead]

Sure!! shop.growingfarmers.com/?ref=wesuhire

[@Mark-kd7yp]

Are they deer resistant?

[@TheHoneystead]

Yes and no! They may graze, but it is not their ideal choice:)

[@maryprice7683]

Need help with R A

[@LanaiDebbie]

I have read that Elder is very invasive and can choke out native plants. Is this true?

[@sherrybaldovino571]

I have been growing elder for 7-8 years and I started with two plants of 2 varieties. They are now serving as a hedge as I have dug up the runners and planted it in a row. They do spread but are not invasive.

[@bobsblues9944]

Most Eldeberrys are native plants. They do spread a bit , but would takea long time before they would take over an area .

[@maidenayoung]

Is she saying that comfrey is the same thing as boneset?

[@gardenhawk]

I believe the other name for it is knit bone. Boneset is a different plant, if I recall correctly.

[@maidenayoung]

@@gardenhawk that’s what I thought. Thanks for your response! 😀

[@sherrybaldovino571]

I caught that too! Boneset is eupatorium perfolatium

[@tristinchristenson6349]

Comfrey is hardier than dandelion

[@user-yb5jk9dw2n]

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