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draining soil. Even if you dig them up dont expect them all to come back when replanted. Some people treat them as annuals. I plant a few pots each year with packs from Lidl.  After dead-heading  I feed with tomato fertiliser, or home-made comfrey

grass, comfrey), then a rotavator will just chop them all up into little pieces - each of which will grow into another plant next season. I know its hard work, but sometimes digging the soil by hand and pulling out the weeds at their roots will make

and well-rotted manure to it every year. For a quick fix for this year, try adding comfrey pellets to each planting hole before you pop your vegetable plants in. You can also add an organic fertiliser, such as seaweed, to your watering can to water

little waste they can deal with. The three bin tower is brilliant for making comfrey fertiliser though! I bought a "wheelie bin"-type worm composter about 15 years ago. According to the leaflet that came with it you could even "keep it in your kitchen

 above ground, beetles don't usually fall in. There are folks who empty the beer and slugs onto their compost heaps every couple of days, or if they are making comfrey tea, slop it into to the mix....not sure whether thats a wise move or not! I  hate slugs

of flowers? Do I need to fertilise, rich in phosphus (roots and shoots) and potassium (flowers). Comfrey juice? tomato fertiliser?  How often? How much? Obviously not too much 'cause the pots are small! You can get slow release fertilizer granules-just add a

I have a border about 6 feet wide and roughly 18 feet long. It has been established long before I arrived and includes hundreds of snowdrops, many perennials such as veronica, pelagoniums, london pride, sedums, comfrey etc etc , ferns and a few

't seem to affect the finished product. It's hanging up in my cottage now and looks great! Rust - apparently there is no solution to rust. I did try feeding with comfrey tea but think it was too late. So glad to here i wasnt the only one with a disastrous

have read somewhere that you should leave it for at least 2 months. nothing wrong with the smell of manure,you should smell my comfrey tea while it's brewing!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.woodlandhp.co.uk/mushroom-compost-supplier/index.html Can you give me

flowering in amongst some reluctant bean plants. I had my first vase of flowers yesterday. I use feed made from either comfrey or dandilions whichever is growing at the time. Both seem to really get things going. So far the waterlogged soil does not seem