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True Comfrey Seeds: Certified Organic, Herbal Medicine Grow for Roots or Leaves

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Original price was: $6.15.Current price is: $3.69.

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Watering : Medium
Planting Time : 90 days
Life Cycle : Perennial
Growth Habit : Clumping
Features : Air Purifying, Cold Resistant, Dwarf, Evergreen, Fast Growing, Flowering, Open-Pollinating
Cultivating Difficulty : Easy
Season of Interest : Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
gtin13 : 858037004702
Climate : Mediterranean
UPC : 858037004702
Country/Region of Manufacture : United States
Genus : Symphytum
Color : Green, Purple
Brand : Plant Good Seed
Sunlight : Full Sun
Soil pH : Neutral
MPN : COM001OGP
Common Name : Comfrey
Indoor/Outdoor : Outdoor
Type : Herb Seeds
Seller Notes : “New”
Soil Type : Chalk, Clay, Loam, Peat, Saline, Sand, Silt

True or Common Comfrey ( Symphytum officinale ) is a hardy perennial shrub native to Europe and Asia and is highly valued for permaculture/subsistence gardens. Comfrey has an aggressive, deep taproot, and is considered a valuable nutrient cycler. Comfrey deep roots mine nutrients from the subsoil, primarily accumulating potassium, but also nitrogen, phosphorus, trace minerals and micro-nutrients. These nutrients are pulled up by its roots and concentrated in its leaves. The plant can be cut to the ground two to three times a year, and the leaves used in myriad ways: fermented to make a nutrient-rich tea; added to a compost pile as a compost activator; as animal fodder; as a green manure – or nutrient-rich surface mulch. Comfrey is commonly used as an orchard understory plant to suppress weeds, mine nutrients, and provide a surface mulch around the tree by chopping and dropping the leaves in place. Comfrey flowers are also excellent bee forage. Seeds are certified organic.

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