http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-6750 John Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:34:35 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-6750 Becki - use Bocking 14 which is a sterile clone and you won't have any seeding problems. Check out this article: http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/index.php Becki – use Bocking 14 which is a sterile clone and you won’t have any seeding problems. Check out this article:
http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/index.php

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-6747 Becki Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:19:53 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-6747 Does comfrey produce seeds from the flowers that can spread? We have loads of it all over our plot and most of it in places we don't want it! I know it is very useful and we do use it but its out of control :) We don't seem to be doing too well at getting rid of it and definitely don't want it to spread to anywhere else. Any tips?? Does comfrey produce seeds from the flowers that can spread? We have loads of it all over our plot and most of it in places we don’t want it! I know it is very useful and we do use it but its out of control We don’t seem to be doing too well at getting rid of it and definitely don’t want it to spread to anywhere else. Any tips??

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-88 John Tue, 01 May 2007 09:38:49 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-88 Propogating comfrey is so easy, it's untrue. After taking a cut from the plant just push a spade into the edge of the plant so you dig up perhaps a quarter or third of the plant. Use a knife to cut downards on the roots and you'll end up with quite a few pieces of root. Drop these into small pot s of compost, water well and in a short time you'll see shoots appearing from the surface. Plant out quickly because the roots will be growing quickly too. I got 22 plants from a third of a plant, which carried on growing as if nothing had happened. Propogating comfrey is so easy, it’s untrue. After taking a cut from the plant just push a spade into the edge of the plant so you dig up perhaps a quarter or third of the plant.
Use a knife to cut downards on the roots and you’ll end up with quite a few pieces of root. Drop these into small pot s of compost, water well and in a short time you’ll see shoots appearing from the surface.
Plant out quickly because the roots will be growing quickly too. I got 22 plants from a third of a plant, which carried on growing as if nothing had happened.

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-87 jake Tue, 01 May 2007 08:29:55 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/31/planted-sarpo-potatoes-and-comfrey-growing-well/#comment-87 That is one hell of a comfrey patch! I have 2 plants and my sister wants one of them. That is one hell of a comfrey patch! I have 2 plants and my sister wants one of them.

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