Comfrey root crowns - great for composting, fertilizer *END OF SEASON*

Description: Harvested AFTER you order to ensure freshness! No chemicals or herbicides are used on these plants. This listing is for 3 crown cuttings. Each crown/root will be 2-4" in length and will vary in diameter. Crown cuttings include some root and leaf bud. They will establish a plant much easier and quicker than simple root cuttings. Comfrey is an excellent green manure fertilizer. If allowed to go to seed you will not need to order more cuttings! · Comfrey has long been recognized for its usefulness & versatility by both organic gardeners and herbalists.· Comfrey is a fast-growing plant, producing huge amounts of leaf during the growing season, and hence is very nitrogen hungry.· Perennial. Easy to grow in almost any soil. · Large fuzzy leaves are in abundance on this herb used since ancient times.· Spikes of pink / purple flowers that are attractive to bees, butterflies & hummingbirds. · Use as mulch! Cut several times per year to about 2 inches above ground and used as a green or “chop and drop” mulch.· Use as liquid fertilizer! Steeping chopped Comfrey leaves in water for several weeks produces a thick, dark liquid that can be diluted with water & fed to plants.· Deep Roots Mineral Accumulator – high in potassium, phosphorus, calcium, copper, iron, & magnesium.· Grows 3-4 feet tall, about 3 feet in diameter and it spreads by root--roots can go down 8 feet to draw up nutrients· The only plant which harvests vitamin B-12 from the soil.· Use leaves to jump start your compost pile, especially piles made predominately from carbon heavy "browns" like dried leaves, straw, brush, wood chips or shavings, etc.

Price: 9.95 USD

Location: Brookfield, Wisconsin

End Time: 2024-11-10T16:51:39.000Z

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