Bocking 14 Comfrey - 12 Root Cuttings to Grow | by Marsh Creek Farmstead

Forgot to take a picture before potting… received all cuttings already starting to root. Super happy with the purchase! Thank you!

The package was great and came with planting instructions. Look forward to growing some comfrey

Doing well on my 2nd year now, thanks!

I placed my order at the beginning of July during some of the worst of the hot weather. When my cuttings arrived, they were all dead and beginning to rot. I contacted the seller and they responded immediately and sent a second set. I planted the 12 cuttings the same day. It’s been six days and two plants have poked out of the soil.The instructions said not to disturb them and they may take time to grow. So I’m hoping for the best that I’ll have 12 plants. I’ll try to give an update later.

It's been 3 years since we got ours and I'm really happy with it.Only 4 of the pieces grew, but they have really been prolific in putting out leaves. We've been chop and dropping them a few times a year, and they hold up really well.I'm only writing this review now because comfrey has been brought up as a tool for pain relief recently and I decided to finally try it out tonight and found that our 4 plants have turned into 9 after 3 years.Not sure why that happened, but I'm happy because I was planning on taking them out of the ground to split into more plants anyway.Too early to say about the pain relief, but it's great for our mini food forest yard.

I have planted these several times and always had success. They keep spreading and are pretty hardy if you find the right place they like.

Root was too dried out and did not revive when treated per instructions. No growth from any of the tiny pieces that were sent.

I received and planted on the same day, June 11th 2022. On July 17th, my 12th one came up. Even though it says full sun, we have been, very, very hot here in Missouri, so I have given them some sun, a couple of hours, then covered them with cardboard for the rest of the day. I also, not knowing my soil pH, sprinkled tomato tone fertilizer, garden lime, blood meal, bone meal and Epsom salt on my plants (I make up a mixture to sprinkle on my tomato and cucumber plants, so I added it to my comfrey plants too). I also planted some reproducing itself comfrey plant seeds, some came up and some died off, but they are in the taller pots in the picture too, and one plant is already in the ground. I have ground egg shells around the plants because something has been eating my new leaf growth. I planted to use the dried leaves for fruit tree fertilizer and winter supplemental food for our chickens. I would purchase these roots again. I am very pleased that they all came up but , with my instant gratification attitude these very slow growing plants pushed my "be patient" button big time.