Comfrey: how to use, harvest and propagate by Morag Gamble

Morag Gamble shares her love of Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) - a perennial multi-functional plant that is so valuable in her permaculture system.

Morag introduces some of the many uses of comfrey and demonstrates how to simply divide a comfrey plant to have many cuttings to add to your garden, or share with your friends.

In her own garden, Morag uses comfrey as an edge plant, to stabilise gardens, to activate compost, to add nutrients when making a no-dig garden, to make a simple natural fertiliser, and to self-mulch and feed a fruit tree.

Morag refers to her previous Youtube clip about how to make comfrey fertiliser. The link is:    • How to Make Comfrey Tea - Morag Gambl...  

At home, Morag also makes a comfrey salve. Morag chats with her daughter, Maia - a budding herbalist, about a couple of the medicinal uses of comfrey. She has written a blogpost about how to make an easy cold-extracted comfrey oil which is the basis of the salve. You can find it here: https://ourpermaculturelife.com/2015/... Watch out for another film soon about how to make the salve.

Comfrey is found around the world and so easy to use and propagate. Morag recommends that every permaculture garden integrate this wonderful plant.

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