Comfrey?

[Dorothy rouse]

Please can anyone confirm if this is comfrey or not?

Hope pic is not too small

[roitelet]

Yes it could be, the pictures are a bit small. Are the leaves rough and hairy? If so I would say it is.

[Fleurisa]

If they prickle your hands they could be

[Shadylane]

Not certain, but I don't think it is, the veins look too pronounced.

ETA: then again it might be - just googled to remind myself and they could be....

[Dorothy rouse]

Yes the leaves are kind of rough and hairy, and so is the stem.

[Dorothy rouse]

It's growing just outside the gates to our plots, suppose the other way I could tell us to pick some, stick it in water, and see how smelly it becomes?

[Fleurisa]

Try making a small amount of comfrey brew, if it stinks worse than a cess pit, it probably is comfrey

[Dorothy rouse]

Will do, there's a bigger photo on FB, if your on there, for some reason won't upload to here from iPad, so had to upload from phone, and they are a bit small.

Thank you.

[mothhawk]

looks like comfrey to me Dotty. If you chop up a fresh leaf, it should smell a bit like cucumber, in the same way that borage does.

[Florence Fennel]

I thought it looked more like borage, but either way it'll make good fertiliser

[Two_Sheds]

Please can anyone confirm if this is comfrey or not?

Not.

Comfrey isn't up yet, but blue alkanet is, and it's about 4" tall here today. Yours is green alkanet ~ you'll get a definite ID when it flowers




short info on alkanet here: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/15694/alkanet

[Two_Sheds]

the other way I could tell us to pick some, stick it in water, and see how smelly it becomes?

anything will become smelly if you steep it in water for a few weeks

[Dorothy rouse]

I will do the 'smell' test!

[mothhawk]

My creeping comfrey is flowering now...

[Dorothy rouse]

White comfrey, that's unusual isn't it?