Comfrey, Symphytum officinale, is a valuable addition to the garden. The leaves contain a significant amount of all three major plant nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

So, clearly comfrey is one of the best ways to fertilize your plants naturally, but how do you use it? 'Comfrey tea is a liquid fertilizer made by steeping comfrey leaves in water,' explains Reese.

Comfrey, until fairly recently, was used for centuries as a medicinal herb. Some of the common folk names for it, such as “healing herb” and “bruisewort,” reflect the healing properties that people ...

If you are in a hurry to use your fertilizer, you can start to use it after 10 days but it will not have as much oomph as the finished product. A chemical analysis of liquid comfrey fertilizer showed ...