Bocking 14 journals
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Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Blooming and Edge of Forest garden
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May
2011
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Cloudy 9°C / 49°FMy comfrey is doing wonderfully this spring. They are twice as big as they ever got all last summer. I am thinking that they’ve had some time to get established and are now going to show me what they can do. We lost one plant over the winter, so are now at a count of 18 plants from the o...
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17 Feb 2011
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The Great Comfrey experiment: And the winner is...
Comfrey garden , Comfrey (Bocking 14) - 2008 Harvesting, and Comfrey (Russian) Harvesting23°C / 73°FEveryone! The winners Caterpillars, Bees, Worms, Comfrey, Soil , Me, Tomatoes, Capsicums, Compost heap, Chooks, Me (oops) Well, almost everyone… The losers A couple of bean plants (shade), ditto for a few squash (shade – halved their production!), the arbors, the paths (although that ...
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Comfrey and Tomatoes: Mulching
Comfrey (Bocking 14) - 2008 Harvesting, Tomatoes - 2010 (all of them) Mulching, and Central West gardenOvercast 20°C / 68°FTime to thwart the world domination plans of the Comfrey, and feed their carcasses to the tomatoes. Harvested about a third of them, didn’t weigh a thing, placed the chopped leaves around the Tomatoes in the central bed for use a mulch and to help with the decomposition of the remaining woo...
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Comfrey: Flowering and Harvesting
Comfrey (Bocking 14) - 2008 Harvesting, All the garden , and Comfrey gardenCloudy 17°C / 63°FWhile not much else has grown in the garden (slowly getting there), the comfrey is making up for the shortfall. Not quite a Day of the Triffids invasion, but world domination is the drum beat, either that or Digidroids has been playing for too long and that’s what I’m hearing? From b...
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Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Harvesting
13
Oct
2010
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Sunny 16°C / 61°FI’ve been meaning to do an update of the comfrey and graibeard’s prodding finally got me to take the camera out there and evaluate their condition. First off lets start by stating that they are all still alive. They survived the summer. But it was rough. We had a hot dry summer. I d...
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Comfrey: Harvest time, in preparation for dividing.
Comfrey (Bocking 14) - 2008 Harvesting, All the garden , Comfrey Tea - 6/2010 , and Comfrey gardenRainy 12°C / 54°FTime to do something, in between the rain showers. No complaints about the wet though as the tanks are full and overflowing. Anyone here in the land of Oz want some Bocking 14 root pieces? I should be able to spare a piece or three. ;) I’m working towards propagating time again, so if you ...
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Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Harvesting
22
Jun
2010
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Sunny 39°C / 102°FIt has been a long time since we have had any sort of rain whatsoever. After two weeks of no rain and 95 + degree weather I checked on the comfrey. It looked so pitiful. Green as can be but literally wilted to the ground. I gave in and watered it and have continued to give it a drink every fe...
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13
Apr
2010
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Comfrey is blooming?!?! O.K. WOW!
Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Flowering and Edge of Forest gardenSunny 18°C / 64°FYea, I think there is no more question. The comfrey is thriving. Unless the hot temperatures knock it out that is. So far though, it is amazing. I put cages around the baby plants to protect them against bunny noms. Last week I had to remove the cages because the leaves were being cramped. ...
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Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Planting Out
27
Jan
2010
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Cloudy 9°C / 48°FFinally, this past week I managed to get the comfrey planted. We had such freezing weather through December that I was afraid to risk it. Last week was a beautiful warm spell. We had temperatures getting into the 60s and the sunshine making it feel warmer than that but cool enough that working u...
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Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar
02
Dec
2009
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The comfrey didn’t get planted before we left for our out of town thanksgiving. I put it in a bucket of water. It occurred to me at the last moment that it might be best to put cages around the newly planted comfrey because we have many bunnies living in the woods. Now, I’m afraid...3°C / 37°F -
Comfrey, Russian Bocking 14 Cultivar Purchased
23
Nov
2009
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My comfrey order has arrived. I’m not sure I should have ordered it yet, but I hope it will have time to settle in and get good roots started before we have a freeze. Because I’m afraid that if I plant in the spring it will get too hot too soon for them to get established. I never ...
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Comfrey (Bocking 14) - 2008 , All the garden , and Comfrey garden
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18°C / 64°FTiller as in tilling the soil? :) Comfrey Tea (the fertilizer kind), search the net and there are a lot of recipes and methods but they all boil down to pretty much one of two ways… Add water and squash the leaves or don’t add water and squash the leaves They also say it stinks li...
