Comfrey vs Dock. Back to Eden Method with wood chips for Organic Vegetable Gardening Soil Building with deep mulch – wood chips for beginners 101, Pt 9. Soil improvement . Also How to build healthy soil – You can use composting leaves too.
VIDEO: Comfrey VS Dock. Back to Eden Gardening Method with Wood Chips for No till Organic begin 101. Pt 9
Comfrey vs Dock. Back to Eden Method with wood chips for Organic Vegetable Gardening Soil Building with deep mulch – wood chips for beginners 101, Pt 9. Soil improvement . Also How to build healthy soil – You can use composting leaves too.
I started leaving dock in garden last year for leaf fertiliser and so pleased others are too
Mark, dock is edible ! It was a popular green for salads historically and of course highly nutritious. My chickens love it too. I have both comfrey and dock growing all around my vegetable garden.
I have dock growing next to potatoes and I've noticed that insects prefer eating the dock. Once they've eaten it all, then they turn to the potatoes, but I can cut dock leaves elsewhere and throw them on the ground next to them and the insects climb off the potatoes to munch on them.
Thanks for sharing information on comfrey and dock. I have been looking for more information on both and this is great. I have dock in our pasture and it is pretty invasive.
Enjoyed & learned a lot thank U for sharing.
For medicinal benefits of Dock
check out Dr. John R. Christopher's lectures.
1 is for energy
Another is restoring natural hair color
Excellent thinking! Have you heard of or tried Fermented Plant Juice? Another way to extract the nutrients for natural fertilizer. Would you do this in spring or fall to propagate more dock?
So great! I've been pulling up my dock, but you make a really good point. I'm going to welcome it now, and maybe feed some to the chickens
How do you treat your comfrey in the fall. Like do you cut it back for the winter. And mulch it heavy.
Been using dock as groundcover and mulch for a few years now, rumex occidentalis. I love it, much more tolerant of alkalinity and drought than comfrey, ridiculously easily propagated, and can be cut three to five times per summer with no ill effect on the vigor of the plant. Also edible, though tart, and high in oxalic acid, best dried and used in stews.
I use Burdock, Arctium lappa, as my ground cover and dynamic accumulator. Root and stems are edible. It’s biennial, reaching a very handsome 6’ high and wide year two. I can cut back at least 4 times per year. Seeds are easy to manage and save, but you must to control its spread. It produces very large, velcro like burrs.
Can you use dock leaves like comfrey to make a tea,as in fertiliser?
Is Dock the same thing as plantain weed? They look the same to me for the most part. Maybe the wild plantain has thicker darker green leaves. In fall they get rust colored seed pods on them, now, does Dock also get seeds like that?
Dock leaves are supposed to be good greens cooked in a pot or steamed like chard or beet greens. Very nutritious but I haven't tried it yet.
Then the Comfrey wins . Its more aesthetic too
If I let dock grow next to my plants does this mean that they dont take minerals from my plant or cause insect pests. Alot of what I've read is that weeds are bad near your plants they bring insects and disease to your garden. I love chickweed etc. And try to keep some growing around my plants but heard it brings diseases to strawberries etc. Or powdery mildew etc. Thanks.
Dock dried, and ground up and put into gel capsules, is also a VERY good anti-inflammatory.
I take it for severe GERD which has caused scarring in my esophagus. It cools the heat and the pain very quickly. I also take it for fevers.
There are no side effects and it is great for cleansing the colon as well.
Burdock (the Japanese and Koreans eat the taproot, but you probably need a post hole digger to get it) and our native Silphium species have phenomenally deep taproots, though they get tall if allowed to flower (& burdock seedheads are annoying). I would plant prairie dock (a basal leaved Silphium; it gets 9' in bloom, but the stalks are narrow enough that shading probably isn't that bad) in preference to comfrey any day, as it is much better for the ecology and can be removed if necessary. Chicory, dandelion, most thistles, mangels, parsnips (beware of phototoxicity from the sap), salsify/goatsbeard, scornozera, and daikons all have somewhat shorter but still significant taproots though daikon probably isn't mycorrizhal (cabbages aren't).
I have a lot of yellow dock in my yard, as well as comfrey, and I also use the leaves in my compost pile or as chop and drop over my garden beds. But I still don't understand how dock aerates the soil for other plants around it while it's root is still there taking up all of the space that it is "opening". If you could explain that, I'd greatly appreciate it. And by the way, my yellow dock roots are much longer than the ones on this video. Finally, I also have a horseradish patch, and those roots are amazing in the deep underground labyrinth they make. I use the leaves in the same way as the others. But would this be beneficial to other plants or take over all of the spaces for them to grow, as well as the nutrients? I say that because anything growing near my mint patch seems to suffer – even beans, with their vast and aggressive underground network. I do grow some annual herbs around the horseradish, though, which seem to do fine as long as I keep the horseradish leaves cut back.
Thank you for addressing my questions, but I'm still wondering what you think is going on with the mint and its effect on plants around it?
Gah! Dock is EVIL!!!
Would planting one Comfrey plant in our garden just be suicide for our garden because eventually the plant will take over the garden and our yards?
04:38 are there four species of Dock? I was only aware of Broad Leaf Dock, and Curly/Yellow Dock (has a yellow root).. I guess you can add Burdock to this list as well.
Thank you
Can eat comprey or not ? Some one said no, some one said yes. I don't know for sure. My garden have some dandelion, mullen or comprey, many kind of wild plants, I don't know all about it. Thanks.
I am currently making a compost tea using stinging nettle, comfrey and lots of Dock leaves and some dandelion. I think Dock leaves probably have even more nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus than Comfrey cause around here these grow very profusely even in bad areas where the soil is compacted, and full of clay and very little topsoil.
There seems to be many different names and prices for "winter rye seed", can you please be more specific on what grass seed to purchase and if possible where you purchase 50lb bags from?
I’ve seen it, but didn’t know what it was.