EASY Homegrown Fertilizer | The Comfrey 'Chop N' Drop' Method
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2015
- In this video Dan from www.PlantAbundance.com shares with you an easy, self sufficient way to produce homegrown fertilizer for all your gardening needs. The Comfrey 'chop N' drop' method "mines" minerals, nutrients and trace elements from deep within the soil making the perfect fertilizer you can grow. Location: East Bay, California (San Francisco Bay Area) Zone 9b.
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Awesome way to use up comfrey! Absolutely a win win plant to have in the garden. If you save some roots & small to medium size leaves (before flowering), chop them up into small pieces & dry it, you can make your own salve/ ointment for many ailments, including arthritis, gout, skin problems like eczema, etc. I make the salve for arthritis. Many people love it around. So easy to grow the plant & make the salve. Plus use it for the chop & drop method in the garden. Extra bonus. If you let it flower the bees, hover flies & other beneficial insects will go totally mad about it! They'll be very grateful ♥ Nature is simply the best ♥
Thank you Dan for another great video!
Just came across your channel. Binge watching. Can't stop even though I have to get up early for work. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience!
That Japanese sickle is the bomb!
We are growing comfrey this fall for the first time. I love the results with the peach tree. You have a beautiful garden.
I just planted comfrey seeds.Exciting!!
I had help planting 8 fruit trees early March in zone 6a. Didn’t know about comfrey so now I do. Ordered some to plant near the trees around the first of May. Hope it works!
Love your channel. Informational and somewhat therapeutic. Thanks
I swear you sound like KJ frome 'the scariest movie ever '. Just found this channel. Thank you!
good video! I was just out doing the same thing in my garden this afternoon. I can never get enough nitrogen builders and dynamic accumulators growing as well as good compost. I've been amazed at how many folks are still not aware of these plants. Glad you're doing a good job of getting the word out and thanks for the info on the Ceanothus--that's a new one for me to check into.
Where can you get ceanothus plant and nettles from?
Thank you for another informative and interesting video. I am growing comfrey in a container and it’s my favorite plant! 🐿
Great tutorial...thanks fir sharing with this novice 😃
Your videos are always interesting, thank you for sharing
Thank you Sofia! Cheers!
Nice video very informative
I've got a new packet of comfrey seeds, getting ready to plant a bunch in the next few weeks!
Thanks for sharing.
Good stuff my friend! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! My pleasure.
great vid!
Great video!
Thank you! Cheers!
I use alfalfa as a chop and drop fertilizer. It's very good and grows back into a bush quickly.
04:40 I don't think it's the nitrogen, I think it are the bacteria feeding on the green material which are cleaning up after the fungi that are feeding on the woodchips, increasing the fungi's metabolism.
Dan, do you sell your plants?. I been watching your gardening for a while. Thank you for sharing with us. I love to get some of your plants.
What month did you harvest and drop that comfrey? Also, when this growing season is/was over - did you further prune your tree down to a short height? If so, how short? Do you do that for apple, cherry, and pear as well? Thanks! Love your channel!
Interesting video! I was doubting if chop and drop works with wood chip mulched garden since from what I know you shouldn’t mix the chips with the soil but just put it on top. So I thought I might mix up everything too much if you just drop on top instead of putting everything under the chips which would be a lot of work every time
I bought a few plants the other day. do your Comfrey plants have hairs that poke a little if you handle without gloves? in the video your Comfrey does not look hairy.
Thanks for sharing. Where can I get the comfrey seeds? I want to try to grow it.
Recently found you.like your stuff
Thank you! Cheers!
I also freeze my comfrey before feeding it to my compost worms. They love the stuff.
Do you freeze it to cool down your worm bin?
No, I just find it brakes down a lot faster when frozen. My worms are in a cool spot anyway...
I put the odd bit of kangaroo and guinea pig manure in, as well as cardboard.
But comfrey is their main food.
Thanks for all the great information posted. In this method are you not taking nutrient from one area and placing then in another area
Your welcome Tony! The Comfrey plant has a deep taproot that "mines" nutrients from deep in the soil where other plants roots cannot reach. So rather than taking nutrient from one area and placing then in another area, it takes from a place that would otherwise be untapped. Thanks for watching...Cheers!
I live in a park and my 3 yr peach tree is in a very large black tub tree pot. Can I plant comfrey direct in the tub with the tree? Also after summer/fall can I top tree to shorten and how much, the tree is about 7ft tall ? Can I use comfrey fertilizer on all flower beds?????
woah you cut that bareroot plant at half its size. Can you link the video to that? Im curious as to how that works? Also is the ceanothus plant invasive?
I bought tree collard seeds from you. Do you also have Asturian Tree Cabbage?
Can you grow this is 10A zone?
Can you use as a mulch??
SMART MAN THAN YOU
how often did you put comfrey around the peach tree ? and can you overdue it or not?
2-3 x's a year. You cannot over do it with the chop and drop method. The nutrients are released slowly as the plant matter breaks down. Cheers!
Can you share your comfrey roots?
Can I grow comfrey with seeds?
What's the name of that blue flower again that has nitrogen nodules I want to buy some it's really pretty and useful.
I went back in the video.... it is called Ceanothus. Not all plant and seed companies have it. Do a search for it.
Jadam fertilizer put the comfrey in a bucket put a scoop of forest compost (it is under the leaves) empty with rain waterand let it for 7- 14 days
Comfrey tea for free dilute 1 tea for 10 water
I save leaves in Yard Bro
wouldn't you want to dig those cuttings in a little?
Dan if i send prepaid mailer would you send me comfrey root, tree kale and artichoke etc. Please and thank you. Need your address.
Where can I buy, and what comfrey plant is this?
I live in NM desert bad bad soil, nurserys so not carry this plant
Billy at Perma Pasture Farm (a CZcams channel) sells comfrey starts.