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RE: Do you want to make your own natural liquid fertilizer? One that is especially rich in potassium and perfect to encourage flowers and fruit set?

in #gardening7 years ago

@laundrylady, just did some reading, I reckon i've got the WRONG comfrey - fine for fertiliser, but not sure it's good to eat. I'm going to keep that as I have tons of it, but I'm going to order the edible one so next Spring I can experiment with some recipes - used to make comfrey fritters, but not here and not since England.

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Do you have wild comfrey on your property? Only the cultivated varieties are safe to consume. Wild comfrey is quite a bit smaller than the cultivated comfrey and it has yellow flowers instead of purple & white. Wild comfrey is not safe to consume. Never ingest comfrey roots. Use comfrey roots externally only. This information is from the herbalist I follow. She has been consuming cultivated comfrey for decades and regularly test her liver to show comfrey does not damage liver. I believe there is a lot of propaganda on comfrey out there.

No wild comfrey. I think it might be a Russian one but I need to wait til Spring to really check again. I totally agree - a lot of the older books talk about comfrey as a wonder herb and I rate them more.