I grow comfrey and thyme next to each other. Bumblebee heaven! ❤

🎶 myyyy comfrey brings all the bees to the yard! 🎶

@@putrid_swamp_juice great idea!

@@BarbaraShafferIsagenix 😂🐝😂

If I ever stop having fun, I'll become a landscape painter instead of a garden KZfaqr. Thank you, Morgan.

Here's to having a good time. 👍 I hope you stay having a good time. Love your videos.

What does borage do, medicinally? And what zone are you in?

@It's shrimp in a bag! Zone 8b. Borage is used for inflammation (especially internal), depression, and hormonal issues, among other things

Love borage too. Good companion plant. Readily self seeds. Beautiful star shaped flowers that taste sort of cucumber like, almost effervescent.

@@daigledj Thanks!

Will it survive summer weather in Florida?

Comfrey is considerably hepatotoxic. You may want to reconsider using it, given that it is a well-documented carcinogen, which is known to cause liver cancer.

@@somerandomperson1503 Water kills people every day, should we stop drinking water too?

DCD is becoming a real problem, lol.

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I live in North Arkansas in the hills. I understand. On my 3rd year at our homestead and it’s getting pretty nice in places!

Clay is an inescapable fact of life for us as well. I would go broke in a year if I tried to improve the soil in my back yard all at once, much less the whole property. So I just work with one row or bed or tree/shrub planting at a time.

@@dogslobbergardens-hv2wf That's how I'm approaching it. I've got three 20-foot rows that I'm really going to focus on this year, but I have a larger area in cover crops (and pioneering weeds) that will provide mulch material for rows, while also improving the soil they are growing in.

@@ashleycampbell8767 I'm starting to get a few nice places. Little by little.

@@awc0000 I think that's very wise. I've also done new rows by making individual planting holes for annuals, then putting in new planting holes down a space the next year, between the previous ones. So after 2-3 years the whole row is amended and improved.

Very good advice

Yep, I've heard it shouldn't be used on infected wounds because the skin will heal over, trapping the infection beyond access.

Next episode: Comfrey is.....ok, I guess?

@dalredpath How does it feel to be so right?

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim haha, I saw it today. I feel like Nostradamus, and I'm considering opening up a professional fortune telling service

"But WAIT! There's MORE!" 🤣

@@dogslobbergardens-hv2wf yaaassss! David make it happen!!

May I may I ask what brand and where you got it?

@@LisaMarieAdams I got it from perma pastures farm. They have a channel here on KZfaq

I make some with the same recipe. Works great!

One time my oldest daughter's then-fiance got into poison ivy and had a bad weeping, oozing rash on both arms. We had a big patch of comfrey (central NH), so she took some of that, steamed it a bit, then wrapped a poultice around both of his arms. Healed up in a matter of hours, rather than days. (Messy, though!)

Smart!! That is no joke! 😭

Just FYI, comfrey contains very high amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids which are quite toxic to the liver and can cause liver cancer.

@Disabled-Megatron Separately. Nigel was surprised.

I JUST planted Bocking 14 two days ago, zone 5b, hoping it likes my yard 🙂

I could see it irritating skin. It has that weird scratchiness.

@@davidthegood yes those little itch hairs

You wouldn't believe the level of emails and comments I get. Thank you.

That's cool, I didn't know that about the pollinators.

People sometimes get a little cultish about this stuff. Or they learn about one thing with a lot of hype behind it, and then just stop thinking. I do grow and use comfrey, but I feel that its "magical" reputation as a biodynamic accumulator is frankly a little silly. All plants mine minerals and nutrients from the soil - that is how plants work. When making "swamp water" as David does, I usually include several different plants in an attempt at getting a wide range of good stuff. My plants grow very well with the teas I make, but I can't objectively *prove* that the teas are doing a whole lot, or a little... or perhaps nothing. I haven't taken the time to do enough side-by-side comparison to truly make a strong conclusion. I'd like to send some plant teas to a lab to find out what's REALLY in them the way I make them... but so far I haven't found anyone willing to pay for all the testing ;)

Hey neighbor! Clay County here. :)

Save the seeds or cuttings! Maybe you've found 5 genetically Florida-hardy comfry plants.

Tithonia diversifolia is perennial Mexican sunflower.

My experience here in Sarasota, FL as well. First tried growing cuttings and crowns in the winter time and they did great. Fast forward to March and April and they can't take the heat or the full sun. Tried several times over the years and tried different sources like Coe's Comfrey and others, and same results. This year I tried in almost all shade and they did the best. My 2 plants at my house are in my covered front porch in a deep large oval planter and were the 2 largest and healthiest of the bunch. They are now showing signs of heat stress as we're getting 95+ temps already and it's not even June. Almost nobody talks about how THIRSTY these are. I have 3 large plants at my father's house and I make a third trip over there every week now as 2 times a week watering is not enough now (even though from Oct-Feb it was enough), even though they are in large pots with compost and are under an awning against the north side of the house to minimize the sun. I love the benefits of the comfrey tea for my other plants but it's almost like a full time job keeping these alive. So far this is the longest I've had these last in all the years I've tried growing them, but it's not even summer yet. Wish me luck.

I wonder what he thought? I haven't talked to him since the video went out.

Because if you heal yourself naturally, you won't have to go to Mount Sinai hospital.

It's not patentable so there is no one to produce studies showing it's safe or effective. There is no money in it. There is money to produce and distribute studies showing it's dangerous. Don't eat it as 50% of your diet.

Consume in small doses and for healing : it can work TOO well. Like mend bones before they are reset in the right position. Or heal the skin over some internal injury that needs surgery and then the doctors might miss it. A strong plant, to be taken seriously

They are pill pushers for the Rockefeller Cartel. But comfrey is strong medicine.

It does have pyrolizidine alkaloids (like most/all plants in the borage family). It works in the short term at promoting healing, but excessive or chronic use is likely to cause serious liver damage. I wonder if there is a way to extract the allantoin (reputed active medicinal ingredient) while leaving the potentially dangerous stuff behind?

Yes, a Mediterranean type would make much more sense here.

I bought sunchokes this year. Definitely a great one to plant as well as Siberian Pea Shrub.

Thank you. Poor soursop!

Same here. Once I bought my house I started buying all these beneficial plants and loved the taste of Soursop but that thing died faster than I can blink once the hot weather occurred. I thought by now my Chaya tree would be all over the place and it's been several years and the "tree" (looks like a Charlie Brown christmas tree) is barely hanging on. Malabar Spinach did well but the taste is nothing like traditional spinach. Tried several years growing softneck garlic like Inchellium which supposedly does well in Florida, but in the past month, all my garlic look pitiful, even though they looked great from Dec/Jan till about the middle of March. I'll be PO'ed if again these don't produce bulbs.

I had some in the tropics and it was great. I have one pot of it here that I need to plant. I'm not sure about the cold hardiness.

@@davidthegood we got down to 11F this past winter and its coming back just fine.

Welp, looks like I have another plant to try

Love the scent.

@@humanbeing4368 makes a great essential oil as well 👍

Great comment.

Wow - that is scary. Good save.

And deep fry things.

Same here, I've blown close to $100 EVERY year (since about 2016) trying to get new Comfrey crowns and cuttings from several sources but it inevitably dies mid/late spring no matter how much I try. SW Florida here. I'm wondering why on Coe's Comfrey's website he still claims the Bocking #4 survives temps 120+ in Africa in the drought in full sun. I can't get my comfrey (any variety) to survive past May, in mostly shade and only 95 degrees and they require so much water, if you forget one day, poof they shrivel up and you'd think the roots would still produce new leaves but it's almost like the plant just dissolves. So much fr the 8 foot root, you'd think would resprout a new plant once it gets watered.

@@kma5699 same for me. I just can’t seem to keep it alive and I want it so bad. I’ve spent hundreds on crowns. Something eats the roots

@@FruitTreeAddict Some of mine in the ground mysteriously died so most likely something ate the roots. I dug it up to retrieve the roots or crown and nothing was there just the dried out leaves that wilted, the roots vanished.

@@kma5699 mine too and I saw lots of slug/leach type things around them in the leaves so I feel like it could have been them?

Thank you