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by just chopping up.. i am sure it is not comfrey ans doesnt grow tall enough oh. where the picture go.. here it is..   Looks like comfrey to me. There are different varieties, this is one of the smaller more ornamental ones. It could be a Pulmonaria

Hello Can I please ask if anyone knows if you can make furtilizer from the foxglove plant? My elderly father makes his own furtilizer from comfrey and has now started to try and make some from foxglove. I'm worried as I know that foxglove

help me? Thanks Hi Trubill, I'm pretty certain it is Borage (Borago officinalis), very similar to Comfrey, but has open blue flowers instead of the bell-shaped (and usually purple) ones which Comfrey has. Alkanet? Yup. Green alkanet. It is indeed green

I'm going to have a go at making my own liquid feeds from comfrey, nettles and manure - in separate bins. I've found the 'recipes' and diluting rates for each but I'm not sure about where to use them. Does anyone know which liquid is best for which

Hi, My garden has loads of green alkanet growing. A few years ago ( before i'd realised what this was) someone told me it was comfrey, so i'd been composting it for quite some time before i found out otherwise. Now i know better, but given it's part

home-made comfrey ointmentHow to make a comfrey feed for plants

I am planning a raised herb garden this year and wonder what plants/ flowers would make good companions? marigolds the old fashion sort,nastursiums,comfrey(although this can be big and take over useful if kept in check) lavender

feeling they might be comfrey http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/thumbnails/HERBS/COMFREY-image-for-comfrey-p.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/comfrey.htm&h=187&w=250&sz=14&tbnid=VKGAwGHUO5uPLM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120

feed in June and a diluted comfrey feed in August but both of them burnt the leaves of the plants and left them looking terrible.  Any other ideas?  Or should I just stick with the seaweed or comfrey but dilute them much more than recommended?  Any