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Im hoping to grow it next season! Thanks for the great information
Love your videos. But noticed the most recent ones are from a year ago. Hope you are going ok and will have more recent ones soon. God bless from NSW
I just found your channel and you gave such great and clear advice. I live in NSW on the coast but your information is still good for here. So thankyou love your channel
Thanks for the tip
Is your white Shahtoot mulberry a dwarf or do you just prune it back hard?
Looks like it would make a great jam and juice if you resist eating them all. 😊
If it still KS it's gone anaerobic. Elaine Inhams Soil food web says don't steep more than 24 hours or it goes anaerobic. Anaerobic kills the good bacteria and nemotodes and breeds the bad ones.😊
My Aunt Thelma used to eat it raw when ever she had a stomachache.
Shah means King Tut mean mulberry
thank you for the helpful video... my comfrey plants are smaller, how much can I cut from each one? can I just cut them back to the ground? its the beginning of summer here now
Great content and lovely presentation. Look forward to more videos the panhandle of sunny Florida in the USA
That was really debunked
Excellent! I love your videos.
Excellent video! 😊👍
Fabulous information and gardening hints.
Just like any other fertilizer keep your concentrated concoction out of reach of animals. Some dogs will try to eat or drink anything, especially if it stinks.
I have heard it is poisonous
comfrey helps cure broken bones quicker and restores cartridge so there is hope for all thos people with artritis and jint pain etc i do at it raw everyday without counter effects and have ben doing so for years. its bneficial not toxic as they ould lie us to believe. read a bok about it from the mid 1900s some herbal doctor was growing it in his raised beds for personnal use and his patients, it is superfood for any lving organism not only for plan ferilizer.. probably 90percent of what we buy in grocry stores is more dangerous than this healing . i put it in my watertank for garden and all the fish seem to hang around the floating leaves all the time. my plants are in ecellent health using this watr daily in our dry hot climate. i recommend it strongly, thanks for the vid
What’s the cold hardiness?
MEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
I planted a choko plant last year. It grew so lush but I was disappointed it did not produce any fruit. What did I do wrong?
Looks so beautiful
Liked and subscribed and fascinated to find all kinds of Guava since Feijoas are called Pineapple Guava. I love winter fruits like Tamarillo and Feijoa.Will watch all your videos eventually .
My favourite that I'm growing is Boysenberry. It's a heavy cropper and it's easy to control as it grows from the one spot that spreads tentacles out like an octopus. If the vine touches ground it will grow roots and start growing from there, but it's easy to control. The thorns are plenty but they are short and because they are close together it makes touching the vines sometimes possible with your bare hands (but gloves are recommended). You must net them. Once the fruit is fully ripe they are super sweet and lose most of their tartness.
You are so sweet thank you for sharing this information I appreciate it, it has helped me so much, God bless you ❤️🙏🏽
Hi, seems the recipe not able to view from the link given?
I grow it under my blackberries with Narcissi which comes into bloom before the comfrey comes through. It helps to minimise weeding and three times for the year. I cut it in the compost heap.
Hi I live in Kentucky, USA, zone 7A. Burning hot summers and freezing cold Winters. Will these grow here? I just found your videos tonight and I love them, they're so informative, you're so pleasant. God bless you Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🐴🇺🇸🌿❣️
Now I wonder if we did an over kill, I planted 2 store bought against a tree, attached to a broken branch to trellis, planned on using tree as a trellis, if grown like yours, well we will see. It is only in for about a month and climbing tree already, I live in zone 8 USA, it is June now and we are getting into the 90s now, heat doesn't seem to bother them at all.
Olivia age 6 “we’re growing them right now and found your video. we would like to know what other fruits and vegetables would grow easily in the hot climate where we live, in Thailand “ Many thanks if you could help 😊
Great content, ty! This is my fourth year growing EWO. I receiced small bulbs from a friend because she had so many in her garden, what a blessing!! I planted//not really//the small bulbs in the ground making sure they were lightly covered with soil. They rooted, sprouted and took off rather well. I have harvested the fresh tender greens, the top bulbs for salad and the large bulb that is in the ground for cooking. This year I have dehydrated the tender greens, will pickle the large top bulbs and will store the bottom bulbs till I find the time to cook them down into onion jam. I have realized that if you wait two- three years before harvesting the bottom bulb it will be larger, giving you more to work with when processing them. Egyptian walking onions are very low maintenance and highly productive onions for your perennial garden. I recommend and share them with everyone.
Thank you so much for this video, I live in the UK and have an allotment that is over run with comfrey and this year there is also a huge amount of teasel, considering I had no plants of either last year it amazes me how Mother Earth knows what she needs and provides it to you. Other plot holders have been moaning about the overgrowth of "weeds" i.e comfrey etc. but like you say the nutrients that are being bought to the surface are incredible and I have done nothing - I shall this week (June) cut some of it back and clear some of the beds ready for planting next year as it is obvious she (Mother Earth) is desperate for nutrients so this year I will use all the comfrey to feed back into the land and then next year she will be rich and ready to plant my dye garden - I will also use comfrey leaves as a natural dye for my sheep fleeces which will then be processed into art yarn etc. What a great free plant and so many uses. TFS and inspiring me to not listen to those who know little to nothing about this magnificent plant.
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing
Great stuff! Thanks.
I just planted comfrey last year. It's a lovely plant, and I'm looking forward to using it as fertilizer. This is the perfect video to show me how to do this!
Bocking varieties of comfrey do not set seed so they spread by division or by the gardener cutting roots. Symphytum Officinale and Bocking varieties of comfrey have identical medicinal properties. Humans shouldn't eat comfrey but it is a great plant to feed chickens up to 100% of their feed in wilted comfrey leaves or grazing animals & pigs up to 30% of their feed. Comfrey leaves are very high in protein and other essential nutrients.
I put damaged leaves in my compost. pile. I wrapped a leaf around my big toe after dropping a step stone on my bare foot. Crushed my toe. After about two hours the pain was almost gone. Add some prayer for healing and no pain left.
The leaves on your comfrey are huge compared to mine.
Love this video & advice ! Thank you 😊
Hi just found your channel, really enjoyed them, i want to ask what sort of fertilizer you use n how often, I watched yr blue berry ones too. Thanks
You are amazing and thank you for all you’re doing for the collective! This is fantastic and I’ll be working in making Nettle and Comfrey tea as you’re describing. Can’t wait!
that looks so snakey
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What kind of chickens are you raising? Love to hear their chatter in the background! 😊
It's very important to note that Comfrey is not meant for internal use and not even on deep wounds. It is an EXCELLENT wound healer, so much so, that for deep wounds it will heal the surface of the wound before the inside can heal. This leaves you ;-) with the risk of an abscess as it can seal the infection in. It is also excellent to heal broken bones, just use it as an external compress. Best to read up on Comfrey before using it as medicine. It is definitely one to have in your garden.
At 80 years old my mother fell and broke three ribs. They were healed within 3 weeks using a comfrey poultice, changed out twice a day. This was used during world war II when soldiers broke bones (the herb was referred to back then as ("knit bone")to quickly get them out of pain(hence the reference to "comfort"in the name of this herb), and quickly get them back on their feet. The procedure is simple: All I used was gauze and 4" wide ling strip of a sheet to make the wrap holding the poultice against her body. The gause was used for containing the poultice because it is quite messy after sleeping the leaves. I spread the poultice on it after straining the comfrey (it develops a healing mucilage when steeping the leaves in tepid -not hot- water. Spreading out the strip of sheet, I placed the gause in a way where I could spread the poultice evenly(like you would butter) on it and folded the gause over to contain it mainly because this stuff is really really nasty messy, and then folded the sheet to where it was contained, then wrapped it around her ribs. This is the same way soldiers were bandaged. And she healed in much the same way. It was really amazing to see the level of comfort it gave her as well.
@@bonnievallery8327 that was great to know thank you
I use it for swelling and pain. I use some leaves and roots in 90% or higher rubbing alcohol. Let it set for six months. It turns a beautiful green. I Use it topically for arthritis swelling and pain. 👍🏻
Great idea!
❤ ty! From centeal tx
Wonderful video. I love the Ausies--SE Asia and Great Britain. Who still says "fortnight"??? I had to think back on that one since it's never used in the States anymore, but maybe I'll change that!!!. Love it! Gardening is universal and so are the descriptions. Getting out to chop comfrey now!
What do you say instead of fortnight?
Fantastic! What an absolutely beautiful garden.
Hi Jian, I'm from Gippsland in Melbourne and just came across your KZread shows which Ifind so interesting. I wanted to know where you get all these wonderful and different types of fruit trees from. I'm a member of The Diggers Club and don't think I've seen these varieties in their catalogues. Keep up the good work.