Perpetual brew

Liquid comfrey feed smelling foul but working wonders on all flowering crops.

Fresh Brew

A brew of comfrey and nettles to feed hungry crops. It's starting to pong good and proper now!

Six of the best

 

Decorative and / or useful early spring flowers; bluebells, apple blossom, broad bean, angelica, tulip and comfrey.

Knitbone

Take a good handful of comfrey leaves, aka knitbone, scrunch up and stuff down sock. Hopefully, the bruised ankle will have recovered sufficiently by the weekend.

Apparently, it's all down to the 5-ureidohydantoin, aka allantoin, a chemical compound present in the urine of most mammals, which is presumably what gives the comfrey brew in the water butt, used for feeding plants, such a strong pong. Allantoin is used in a lot of skin preparations and helps tissue repair.

Wikipedia

Shoots & Leaves

Comfrey


Redcurrant

Avant le déluge

Just time to grab all those things that were drying in the sun, before the heavens opened. The allotment loved it, but at home I had 10+ litres of water cascading through the roof in several places.



Noticed evening primrose plants for sale for 95p today - that must make my lotty worth, ooh, at least £30, just for starters.



The celery is coming along very slowly. It was looking a bit yellow, so I fed it with some comfrey.



A shame that the pompom poppies don't last more than a few days, before the lightest breeze tears them to shreds.