Comfrey and Arrowroot

mitch · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:37 pm

I'm looking for some comfrey Symphytum officinale and arrowroot. I've wanted them for ages. Comfrey for the compost and chooks and arrowroot for the roots. Does anyone have any?

Cheers

dufflight · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:51 pm

You can have some comfrey cutting but the Arrowroot is not big enough to devide yet. I got mine from http://www.greenharvest.com.au

veggie boy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:59 pm

Where are you mitch? I've got heaps of arrowroot, but can't be fracked posting it.

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:19 pm

Have you tried eating any yet.

veggie boy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:35 pm

Nup - to me it would only be starvation food (ie I will eat it if for some reason I have nothing else to eat :lol:

). You Duff?

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:10 am

Was using it to replace cana as a mulch and border plant. The thinking was if I was going to grow a cana it might as well be the edible one. I will give one a try soon. I'd hate to have something growing for 10 years only to find out it tasted great. :thumb:

Jaymie · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:15 am

let us know

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:19 am

Jaymie wrote:

let us know

If you don't hear from me. I ate the wrong one. :yuck:

chillidude · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:04 am

Yeah, Duff - if you could just arrange it so that you die in front of the one that killed you and get someone to send us a piccy, we'll be grateful for the info - and of course, we love piccies :hello:

veggie boy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:40 pm

Don't think you are going to be real impressed with it. Can be used to make flour, but a fair bit of stuffing around involved.

mitch · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:26 pm

Thats fine. It's not actually for me anyway. I figured if its edible then my chickens and ducks would love it. It would be a good fodder crop, something that I could grow intensely. Then chop and drop. Then let the chickens in for a good scratch and they'd eat what they wanted etc.

As for the comfrey. That's for me. Haha. Well the compost anyways. I'm over in perth so it would be a bit far to post the arrowroot unfortunately. I'll have to look out for a supplier over here.

veggie boy · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:31 pm

Yep - arrowroot is great for chop and drop. At the end of winter I pulled up and divided heaps of my arrowroot with the intention of planting in all sorts of places around my yard. I filled 5 chicken pellet sacks with bulbs (bulbs only - I'd cut all the foliage off, so you can imagine how many I had). Unfortunately I ran out of time and ended up leaving them in the bags for months until they just rotted.

A shame, but I still have heaps as I had immediately put a thin border of plants at the back of my veggie patch. These are growing well from the recent rains. Will take a pic and post if I remember.

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:51 am

Careful with the comfrey, it can be hard to get rid of. (not for me though, I'm good at killing plants.

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veggie boy · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:17 am

Not too hard here EB - just let it dry out in summer and it rots down on itself.

Faye · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:40 pm

Hey Mitch, just been shopping and I have some comfrey just for you as well as a (baby) chcolate pudding tree. Swap for a coffee :lol:

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