Sodding Bocking.................

[Snadger]

I've got the Bocking variant of comfrey in my allotment so I thought my plot would be safe from the plants invasive qualities, as it is self sterile!

NOT SO!!!!!!!!!!

It IS self sterile but still manages to propogate itself in gay abandon from small root cuttings.
I shifted it from the area I had it last year to a derelict area next to my compost bins! Theory being, that I could take half a dozen harvests each year and if i didn't need it for tea, i could just lob it into the compost bins. This part has worked well.

What I didn't plan for was the regrowth in the original area as well. Just spent an afternoon pulling as much out as I could get and mulching my tatties with it.

The bladdy stuff will probably sprout up in the tattie beds next!

[mothhawk]

Ooops!

You could always sell it on ebay

[Bramble_killer]

can you post down some to me if I send you an SAE?

[rustylady]

It can't possibly be as bad as the horseradish I have on my lottie!!

[mrbadexample]

It can't possibly be as bad as the horseradish I have on my lottie!!

Please can you post down some to me if I send you an SAE?

[singleseeder]

Hi Snadger, I have been back here just lurking for a couple of weeks after getting a plot this year. I would really love to help you relocate some of your 'sodding bocking'. I'll join the queue above of course. I could collect if it is convenient.

Perhaps you are sorry you ever mentioned this now....

[Florence Fennel]

I'd get in the queue if I lived nearer.

[Two_Sheds]

If anyone wants a bit of root, send me an SAE I too have lots of Bocking 14, although mine has been deliberately split & divided

[womble]

You know the roots do go down some metres right? So didn't you expect some regrowth? Lol

It's terrible for growing from every little bit, I wacked a load in once after it had been drying on the path for a day, about 20 little plants started growing in my spud bed that was a bit worrying.

I don't know why you are supposed to use root cuttings, just bury any old bit of stem and it will fly away.

[mrbadexample]

If anyone wants a bit of root, send me an SAE I too have lots of Bocking 14, although mine has been deliberately split & divided

And very nice it is too. I checked on one of my bits of root, and it's sprouted in two places, so I just need to be a bit more patient.

[Snadger]

[QUOTE=womble;852878]You know the roots do go down some metres right? So didn't you expect some regrowth? Lol

It's terrible for growing from every little bit, I wacked a load in once after it had been drying on the path for a day, about 20 little plants started growing in my spud bed that was a bit worrying.

I don't know why you are supposed to use root cuttings, just bury any old bit of stem and it will fly away.[/QUOTE]

Thats probably the answer why then!