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in the top of each mound.Keep the plants well watered, then feed every two weeks with a high potash fertiliser, such as tomato fertiliser or comfrey solution once the fruits have started to swell. Pinch out the tips of the main shoots of trailing varieties

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with a home-made comfrey ointmentSoothe sore throats with an onion and honey solution

materials - dry, wet, soft and woody - otherwise they become slimy. Don't add nettle roots, unless your heap is very hot.Nettles on the compost heapMore about using garden weedsMake a nettle feed in a containerHow to feed your plantsMake a comfrey feed

though except in my garden. The local farmer would spray anything brave enough to show its face.  could be comfrey or borage. Thanks everybody for having a look at this for me.  I've narrowed it down to going with Dovefromabove.  From web photos I

. You will find growing comfrey to steep in your rainwater butt will also give you great fertilizer and nettles do the same. I am sure you do not wish your diet to be full of chemicals - few gardeners do - so why not give your plants more natural food

the garden (and maybe help the soil)? I was wondering about one of the natural nitrogen fixers like Comfrey but I've heard it's impossible to eradicate? I don't think there's anything much I can do about the rest of the garden, except hope

. This year I have an allotment too, so am going to use comfrey there to see if theres any  difference between that or the nettle steeped liquid (with both, just use 1 part liquid to 10 parts  of water). I hope you enjoy your new garden for years to come!

of growing a patch of comfrey to make fertiliser or addd to the compost heap. Phlox spreads too much, not to mention epimedium. I could go on..... Phlox and epimediums are lovely, though, and you can easily dig 'em out! And no one would be without mint

including weeds and (perennial weeds which I soak in water for about 4 weeks before adding), also comfrey leaves, cardboard boses and at least 6 scrunched up sheets of newspaper everyday which is taken from the base of my two large parrot cages so