My married man Joel has been making this awesome homemade natural fertilizer for our garden usingcomfrey , and its been mold amazingly well ! It ’s super easy , too , especially if you have comfrey growing in your garden already . fundamentally , it ’s a simple comfrey teatime , or infusion to be exact . Joel wrote this postal service for us today to severalize us how he nominate this comfrey tea for use in the garden as a homemade raw fertilizer !
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Why Use Comfrey?
Thecomfrey plantis a dynamic collector , which signify that its thick etymon are able to fetch up nutrients and minerals from the grime and concentrate them in its leaves . When the leafage are steeped in water , the nutrients leach out into the water and make a natural , cheap homemade natural plant food for any plant . So why not make use of something already growing in your garden to assist everything else grow !
How to Make Comfrey Tea
Here ’s how to make comfrey tea . First wait until the comfrey plant is about two infantry tall and then cut it off about two inches from the ground . Mash and chop the leaves , stem , and bloom , and place in a textile purse ( an older pillow casing works well ) .
Put the cloth bag or pillowcase in a five congius bucketful and fill up with water .
Let the comfrey tea usurious for at least a calendar week , three weeks is best . When it reek ( it really stink ! ) and turn over dark green , it ’s quick to apply .
How to Use Comfrey Tea in the Garden
Dilute the comfrey tea with plain water at a proportion of at least 3:1 , and up to 10:1 , and then use diluted Camellia sinensis to water plants in your garden . you’re able to reuse the bag of chop up healing herb for a 2nd batch if you ’d wish , but it will be weaker , so just reduce it less .
It ’s that wide-eyed ! With just a little crusade and meter , you may make your own free constituent homemade natural fertilizer , and then just watch the plants grow !
Comfrey go forth can also be made into restorative salves , likecomfrey salveor anherbal diaper skin rash salve , that tegument fuck !
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