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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] crafty2025-06-09 11:46 pm

How to Make Comfrey Liquid Fertilizer Part 2: Leaves

Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. Begin with Part 1: Jugs. With those done, I harvested leaves.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] crafty2025-06-09 10:57 pm

How to Make Comfrey Liquid Fertilizer Part 1: Jugs

Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. This plant fills a lot of guild roles in permaculture including fertilizer, miner, mulcher, protector, attractor. I have been using it primarily as a bee plant that I can also slash-and-drop several times a season. I grow it under many of my trees and there's some in the prairie garden too.

There are various ways to make liquid fertilizer from comfrey. I will be testing two: 1) a small amount of comfrey leaves in a large amount of water, and 2) only comfrey leaves crammed tightly in a jug. (See Part 2: Leaves.)

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crafty_packrat ([personal profile] crafty_packrat) wrote2025-06-07 02:24 pm
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Farmer's Market -- 7 June 2025 (Pitchfork Day, 20th of Meadows, Year 233)

Three quarts of strawberries, 3 pints of sweet cherries, a pint of sugar peas, locally grown brown rice, locally grown polenta, large soft pretzel, gruyere-bacon pastry wheel, lemon tart, fennel plant, dill plant, zinnia, cilantro, basil (all three plants given away by the local Master Gardeners group).

I guess I'm making strawberry jam this weekend.