Where do i get comfrey???

[cupcake]

I got mine from ebay a few weeks ago. They are now growing away in pots, and will go up the far end of the garden.They are the Bocking14, and with p&p were around a fiver for 5 roots. Good growing instructions and harvesting tips, and really well packed. Came in 2 days.

[womble]

Now, although mine didn't flower as I moved it mid summer....I am finding it all over the place, around the edges of the plot and elsewhere. So it must have been hiding from me all last year.

You didn't get bocking14 then.

When I first got mine I wish I had set up a line of plants properly and rooted as many as I could, I only set out two plants and have been taking roots from them since, but they take a couple of years to establish properly.
If I was starting again, I would try for 10 plants in a close row, about half to 3/4 of a metre apart.

[zazen999]

You didn't get bocking14 then.

When I first got mine I wish I had set up a line of plants properly and rooted as many as I could, I only set out two plants and have been taking roots from them since, but they take a couple of years to establish properly.
If I was starting again, I would try for 10 plants in a close row, about half to 3/4 of a metre apart.

No, I did - these other growths aren't from my comfrey....as I said mine didn't flower as I moved them mid season...and they are around the place, not on my plot - around it and in the hedgerows.

[Snadger]

No, I did - these other growths aren't from my comfrey....as I said mine didn't flower as I moved them mid season...and they are around the place, not on my plot - around it and in the hedgerows.

All my comfey is growing in a large clump at the mo but becaise it's quite architectural I think I may split it up and dot it randomely around the plot on my new quest for 'randomness'

[womble]

No, I did - these other growths aren't from my comfrey....as I said mine didn't flower as I moved them mid season...and they are around the place, not on my plot - around it and in the hedgerows.

Oh its wild comfrey, I once picked a whole load of that and put it on the garden, maybe it was flowering, because next year I got loads of plants coming up all over the bloody place, I was still digging them up 5 years later

[zazen999]

All my comfey is growing in a large clump at the mo but becaise it's quite architectural I think I may split it up and dot it randomely around the plot on my new quest for 'randomness'

I've got a makeshift compost heap at the top of the plot, so mine is planted along the underside...if the whole bed went over to comfrey I wouldn't be displeased, as it is also rife with nettles so I can cut them for my teas at the same time.

[gojiberry]

I've just ordered some from Suffolk herbs, I think it was £3 odd for 5 plants (bocking 14) I also ordered a little book on how to use it for £1:50 all seemed a reasonable price to me.

Ian