On Aug 10, 6:54 am, FragileWarrior
wrote:
Okay, opinions please...

I have a Comfrey plant that someone gave me in June. It was a feeble
little thing when I got it but now it is like a show plant -- absolutely
huge, lush and vivid dark green. The root ball would probably fill a
bushel basket. I know if I leave it here, it will probably be mowed down
and destroyed and I'm wondering if it is worth it to move it? And if I try
to move it, how much can I cut it back (tops and/or roots) before I damage
it fatally? I'm taking a lot of my favorite smaller herbs with me because
I can't stand the thought of them being slaughtered but this is by far the
biggest outside plant I'm thinking of moving. My thirty-five year old Xmas
Cactus is the biggest indoor plant I'm moving.


FW
Take all you want. You will not hurt comfrey, and neither will mowing
it
down. It will just come up again and again.
My son has a plant and I harvest every leaf for making my Comfrey
smelly-swamp tea. It grows back in a week. It is great for your
plants as fertilizer.
Be careful, be very careful!! If comfrey is in good
soil and gets water it can take over. Try to dig it out and every
little 1/2
inch piece of root that is left in the ground will sprout into a new
plant....
Seen the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' with M. Mouse?? That broom must have
been made of comfrey. :^
When I had to get it out of here, the only way I finished it off was
to cover
the whole area with a sheet of metal, weigh it down with concrete
blocks,
and not let it get ANY water for 6 months.
I do like it, but in a pot, or at my son's house!
Emilie
NorCal