Enhance your garden's nutrient cycle with our Quality Comfrey Roots. Cultivated from robust stock, these hardy roots are prepared to integrate seamlessly into your soil, offering a consistent supply of organic goodness for your plants.
Boost your garden's health with these practical and resilient comfrey roots, an essential addition for your vegetable garden, food forest and permaculture plot.
Key Benefits:
Dynamic Accumulator: Comfrey, known as a dynamic accumulator, mines essential nutrients from the soil, making it a powerhouse in nutrient cycling. Its deep roots reach down, pulling up minerals like potassium, phosphorus, and calcium, effectively transforming your garden into a fertile haven.
Mulching Marvel: Watch as your garden beds thank you for the natural mulch provided by Comfrey's large, nutrient-rich leaves. Acting as a living blanket, Comfrey helps retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and gradually breaks down, releasing vital nutrients back into the soil.
Companion Plant Extraordinaire: Comfrey is a stellar companion plant, enhancing the growth of neighboring fruits and vegetables. Its presence improves overall soil health, and its tall, vibrant stalks act as living trellises, creating microclimates for smaller plants to thrive.
Natural Healing Balm: Harness the healing properties of Comfrey leaves by creating your own organic fertilizers or medicinal salves. Rich in allantoin, Comfrey promotes cell growth and accelerates the healing process, making it a must-have in your permaculture toolkit.
Pollinator Paradise: Bees and other pollinators can't resist the allure of Comfrey's bell-shaped flowers. Invite these essential garden allies to your space and ensure a bountiful harvest through enhanced pollination.
From its robust growth habit to its adaptability in various climates, Comfrey proves itself as a resilient and low-maintenance addition to your garden, effortlessly adapting to its surroundings.
For more tips on how to use and implement these beautiful comfrey roots in your space, go to our blog, our instagram page @theorganiccomfreyfarm or our youtube-channel.
Comfrey Roots: 6 root stocks
- Quantity: Set of 6 or 30 bare roots
- Packaging: Shipped securely to ensure the health of the roots upon arrival
- Planting Instructions:
- Plant in well-draining soil with partial to full sunlight.
- Dig a hole deep enough to accommodate the roots without bending.
- Space roots according to the recommended distance for the specific comfrey variety.
- Care and Maintenance:
- Keep soil consistently moist during the establishment phase.
- Allow time for roots to establish before extensive harvesting.
- Uses:
- Harvest leaves and stems for use as dynamic mulch.
- Accelerate composting by adding comfrey leaves to your compost bin.
- Create nutrient-rich liquid fertilizer (comfrey tea) by soaking roots and leaves in water.
- Benefits:
- Enhances soil fertility with high levels of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus.
- Provides a sustainable and natural gardening solution, ideal for permaculture and organic gardening practices.
- Type: Symphytum x uplandicum Bocking 14, Russian Comfrey, the most productive one
- Sterile. Does not set seed, so does not propagate by seed, but does by roots.
Grown organically on our homestead at Pickelton Farm.