10/26/2025
MEET COMFREY
When it is time to harvest herbs for dehydration, I start with the wonder plant Comfrey. Also known as 'knit bone' for its ability to heal bones.
I will make a salve that can be used on aches and pains, sprains and bruises just not open wounds.
Comfrey is a powerhouse plant great as a fertilizer because it pulls up nutrients from deep in the soil. Chop and drop around plants, bushes and tomatoes, anything that likes NPK.
Comfrey is super to plant next to fruit trees at the drip line to chop and drop and it is a fabulous pollinator too.
You can cut the entire plant back to the ground to harvest the leaves and viola it grows right back!
Bocking 14 is the variety of comfrey that does not multiply by seed, but by roots that are super easy to propogate. Cows, sheep, goats and chickens love it too.
Be sure to add comfrey to your garden but wait before you do.... Choose a corner or a fence line where you will want it for life because eradicating it is almost impossible. But you won't want to because of all it wonder gifts.
It makes a perfect liquid fertilizer when chopped and squeezed into a 5 gallon bucket with water. The smell will keep anyone you don't like out of your garden and your plants, veggies and fruits will thank you.
Meet comfrey.
