Pegs on noses - comfrey tea!

General tips / questions on seeding & planting

Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter

vivienz
KG Regular
Posts: 515
Joined: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:55 pm
Location: Very north Dorset
Has thanked: 6 times
Been thanked: 8 times

My bucket of comfrey tea is, I think, ripe and ready. How do I know? Because it looks like green sludge and smells like standing next to the rear end of a cow that's had a bad night on the beer and curry. OMG! It stinks! Really stinks! I think everyone is far too polite about it, usually saying that it's a bit smelly. What an understatement :mrgreen:

Anyhow, hopefully something as noxious as this will be great for my plants, well diluted, of course!

Best practice - wear a peg on your nose when dealing with comfrey tea!
User avatar
oldherbaceous
KG Regular
Posts: 13822
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 pm
Location: Beautiful Bedfordshire
Has thanked: 254 times
Been thanked: 295 times

I can smell it now, in my imagination...once smelt, never forgotten.. :)
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

There's no fool like an old fool.
Monika
KG Regular
Posts: 4546
Joined: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:13 pm
Location: Yorkshire Dales

Well, I am jolly glad I have never ever made this evil smelling mixture! We have a lot of comfrey but I just 'coppice' the plants several times each summer and put the leaves into the compost bins.
Stephen
KG Regular
Posts: 1869
Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:03 pm
Location: Butts Meadow, Berkhamsted
Been thanked: 2 times

I brewed a nettle tea once and won't do so again.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
robo
KG Regular
Posts: 2808
Joined: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:22 pm
Location: st.helens
Has thanked: 9 times
Been thanked: 56 times

I’m lucky I don’t have a sense of smell on the other hand I don’t have any comfrey on the plot
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic