Showing posts with label Comfrey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comfrey. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Natural fertilizer


Symphytum officinale, Comfrey, Vallurt, Consuelda.

Yesterday I was so lucky to get some more baby Comfrey plants of a friend. Building a food forest you never can have too many of them. First of all I will use the plants to fertilize my fruit trees.


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Also healing wounds, bones, Psoriasis and Bronchitis.

Virker også mot Psoriasis, sår hals og Bronkitt.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Food forest plant overview, with some guilds

Plants do better in guilds together with specific other plants. In the plant overviews below for several of the trees and plants guild plants (gilde) will be specified.



Food forest plant overview of 449 different plants, in Latin and Dutch.
https://airtable.com/shrZx25ov9kIZ2KcW/tbly4BJKJbrI5h2yQ/viwEFY19kHvnG3TKz?blocks=hide

Food forest fruit overview, in Dutch:
https://airtable.com/shrZx25ov9kIZ2KcW/tbl8Q59oMYB7tlGI1/viw9OXCr3Fw8ltopD?blocks=hide

Vegetable garden plant overview, in Dutch:
https://airtable.com/shrZx25ov9kIZ2KcW/tblJvKCTLlCBk4fBn/viwGoSW2AjJTO8W03?blocks=hide

Invasive plant overview, in Dutch:
https://airtable.com/shrZx25ov9kIZ2KcW/tblwQgtUglBsioKRy/viwFZ2WGekEAmG83J?blocks=hide



These 'excel/airtable' lists have been made by Godelieve Huijs. The links can be copied as long as she has these plant overviews available on the internet.



An  article with more permaculture guilds, with Comfrey in all of them. Right now I have around 10 Comfrey plants. In the future I would like 80 of them. Good for stimulating fruit trees by mulching them with Comfrey.
https://treeyopermacultureedu.com/chapter-2-3-or-the-11-design-principles-from-the-intro-book/diversity-guilds/

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