Reply To: How to harvest Comfrey……

[Rhys]

Don

Thanks for the comments – much appreciated.

I had a whole season harvesting and wasn’t that far away from your advice to be honest. I stopped cutting at the end of September and now after the frosts over Christmas/New Year, all the plants have died back and just leave a brown gooey mass.

The first season of making compost adding comfrey leaves into the bin went very, very well – yes it was a warm dry summer, but the speed of composting of the first bins completed in May was amazing – turning them at the end of July showed them well advanced and they went into the green waterproof bins for the winter in perfect shape. I couldn’t be happier. Whether it was just the comfrey, the added yarrow or just that conditions were good for composting I don’t know.

The potatoes which were hilled up with a mixture of comfrey leaves, grass clippings and a bit of soil did really great too – up to 4lb per tuber maincrop using Desiree. That’s definitely worth doing again this year.

Let’s hope 2015 is as good for the comfrey crop.