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Common comfrey is widely used in organic agriculture as green manure. It can also be made into comfrey liquid manure or added to compost. This helps with soil fertility and thus plant growth.
Comfrey is also very popular among bumblebees and other bees that thoroughly enjoy its sweet nectar.

The plant easily reach a meter in height. The stem is a little prickly, and the leaves are large, alternate, pointy, and covered in hair. Above all of this, shoots grow where pink or purple flowers bloom in the middle of summer.

*For better germination rates, the seeds should be stratified. To do this, place the seeds in small bag full of humid sand of soil, and put the said bag in the fridge for 2 weeks.

*This comfrey is not Russian comfrey (such as Bocking 14). Russian comfrey doesn’t produce seeds and would therefore be tricky to sell in seed packages.

Warning. We advise against regular comfrey consumption. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids which can be toxic for the liver in high dosage.

Package: 25 seeds

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BOTANICAL INFORMATION

Latin name : Symphytum officinale
Common names : Comfrey, common comfrey, true comfrey, Quaker comfrey, cultivated comfrey, consound, slippery-root
French : Consoude
Family : Boraginaceae

DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION

Plant type : Herbaceous perennial
Habit : Shrubby
Height : 1.3 m
Width : 75 cm

CULTURAL INFORMATION

Days to maturity : N/A
Sowing : Directly outdoors after the last frost, or indoors 4 weeks before transplanting outside
Depth : 0.5 cm
Germination : N/A
Soil : Virtually any
Exposure : Part-shade to sunny
Planting : In spring, after the last frost
Plant spacing : 60 cm
Row spacing : 60 cm
Watering : Low requirement
Care and other considerations : Requires stratification 2 weeks prior to planting.

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