| Welcome to Free Thinkers! Log in, register an account, or post as a guest. |
| Grow your own tomato/plant food; Comfrey - it's the best | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: May 3 2010, 12:10 PM (1,385 Views) | |
| yass | May 3 2010, 12:10 PM Post #1 |
'night owl'
  ![]](http://z6.ifrm.com/static/1/pip_r.png)
|
I wanted to share this. I learned about this last year while studying herbs and thought it was the neatest thing. Comfrey is the greatest tomato food. I wanted to find a reference other than the one I had posted elsewhere and so I put 'comfrey tomato food' into search and the results were overwhelming. I'm going to post just a few of those links but you might want to do further searching. I always find out the neatest things by checking out multiple sites even on the same subject. Grow your own tomato feed http://www.greenthumbarticles.com/article/Grow-your-own-tomato-feed-a697.html Best tomatoes for hanging baskets http://organicgarden.org.uk/?p=3367 Comfrey Feed http://www.greenchronicle.com/gardening/comfrey_feed.htm Growing & Using Comfrey for Gardeners http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/index.php Comfrey The Wonder Plant http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/comfrey/comfrey.PDF |
| -Love will lead | |
 |
 
|
| yass | Apr 9 2011, 05:06 AM Post #2 |
|
'night owl'
|
 A welcome discovery, Comfrey.  Lo and behold, yonder side the pond... more comfrey!  Plant food and pleases nitrogen loving tomato plants.  comfrey soaking in water... couple weeks or so to go From a post at the David Icke forum referring to the above--------------------- I'd probably had the comfrey soaking for three days or so when I took the picture above. The water was still clear and the only dark thing about it was the plastic potato sack which was brown. Two days ago I checked on this stuff and it had turned brown. It smelled like shit - poop - stinky shit poop - not a joke. peeeeyuuu! While handling, some will get on your hands and fingers. If you were to put those fingers to someone's nose... oh, gawd...  As much as it all stank, it made me feel good knowing what it truly is and knowing my plants would love it and they did. It's been rainy and overcast here day after day after day, we've hardly got any sunshine at all. I was remembering a site that suggested you put black plastic over the area you were going to plant (tomatoes) in a few days before you plant, as they love warm soil and it would help them grow fast. This comfrey fertilizer must be diluted. The majority of sites said 15:1 water to comfrey liquid, one said 20:1, and one said 10:1. I made mine 10 to one, but since the soil and air have been so wet and cold... short of freezing... the plants seemed a bit unhappy about it, and I dreaded the idea of transplanting my potted plants into that cold wet soil, so I took a large pot and heated the water that I mixed with the comfrey liquid. I measured it out using a 2 cup measuring cup, I measured in 10 in water, using one of fertilizer when I did the mixing. I may have got a bit more water added but considering the ratios that didn't matter but I knew at least 10:1 would be sufficient. I made up two batches, the first I pretty much used up on the plants already in the garden and in some of the potted plants, and the second batch primarily for the plants I had just planted. I used a watering can to do it with and before all that I'd bungee corded some cheese cloth to the rim of a bucket forming a pocket in the center to strain the comfey liquid into.   cheese cloth I did this at night, in the dark, with my Dietz lantern. It was just bright enough to see the immediate area I was working in. I did the planting that way. When it was still light I'd done the first batch of fertilizer mix, and made up the second. I didn't make it hot, but warm. Did my plants like it? By the looks of them they seem to have really liked it. I need to get out and get some more pictures. I have a few more to post but they were taken just before. Edited by yass, Sep 9 2017, 03:37 AM.
|
| -Love will lead | |
|
|
|
| allegiance to truth | Apr 26 2011, 03:40 AM Post #3 |
Advanced Member
|
Comfrey was one of the crops I was planning to plant as folliage for the goats & minature cows, two of each, want to start making own cheese & goat soap. Figured planting massive amounts of comfrey, other herbs, pumpkins & vines including blackberries that grow like weeds, it will make for some fantastic milk, cheese etc & fertilize the soil as well! |
|
|
|
 |
|
| « Previous Topic · General Discussion · Next Topic » |
