Comfry liquid fertilizer

[leoniep]

Hi, I wonder if you could help. If you use liquid comfrey but the content of comfrey is to high can it effect your plants in a bad way? I put a little on my tommies, and since then the leaves have gone brown. Not sure if it's the comfrey or if they are just diseased and need to be chucked out.

Any suggestions would be great,

Thank you,

Leonie

[DavidT]

Leonie, can you give a bit more info, such as where the plants are growing, how big they are and what the browning looks like? Are all the leaves affected or just a couple. Better still, can you post a pic or two?

[Leon Roskilly]

I make comfrey liquid by putting the comfrey leaves in a container with a small hole in the bottom, and collect and bottle the liquid that drains out.

(Much less smelly than comfrey tea, made by soaking the leaves in a water filled container!)

Before use I dilute this 1 part comfrey liquid to 10 parts water.

I don't start feeding with comfrey until the plant starts to set fruit.

I haven't had any problems feeding tomatoes with this.

[smithyveg]

I have 2 large buckets full of comfrey leaves rotting down in water. At the end of May I'll strain off the liquid (stinks like hell) and bottle it up in old lemonade bottles. It's full of potash so is ideal for feeding tomatoes after the first fruit has formed.....just a 'dash' to each watering can.

Can't be any more scientific or specific than that I'm afraid......but I've been growing great tommies for show using this free feed for two years now.

Simon

[Lez]

I have comfrey and I have put it in a small bin with rhubarb leaves. I saw a programme from wales and the old boy used rhubarb leaves steeped in a dustbin and watered his cabbages and kept the butterflies away. I thought I would mix comfrey and rhubarb and do the same but give a liquid feed aswell as a detterent. it does pong a bit already no wonder the butter flies don't come near. will give it a go and see what happens. we are rife with whitfly here so I am hoping it may do for them aswell. good luck to all