{"id":210,"date":"2009-08-08T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2009-08-18T21:07:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:07:50","slug":"comfrey-wonder-fertilizer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?page_id=210","title":{"rendered":"Comfrey &#8211; wonder fertilizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comfrey has long been known in Britain as a medicinal herb, its common name was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknitbone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, because it\u00c2\u00a0 assists in healing broken bones and skin complaints. Many people still use products from it for those purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately some people have a skin allergy to the spiky leaves and stems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 932px;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_218\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218\" title=\"comfrey_flower\" src=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_flower1.jpg\" alt=\"Comfrey also known as knitbone\" width=\"539\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_flower1.jpg 681w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_flower1-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comfrey also known as knitbone<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p\/>\n<b>Comfrey has the following properties for the organic garden<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic Accumulator &#8211; Deep tap roots bring up essential minerals especially Potassium<\/li>\n<li>Fresh weight it contains higher percentages of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potash than farmyard manure<\/li>\n<li>Herbaceous perennial, can be cut 3 or 4 times per year yielding up to lbs. per plant per cut<\/li>\n<li>Needs little care and attention<\/li>\n<li>Cut leaves can be used directly on the soil as a slow release plant food and mulch<\/li>\n<li>Cut leaves can be compressed to rot down and produce a foul smelling black liquid that makes an excellent liquid plant feed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_216\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216\" title=\"comfrey_press\" src=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_press.jpg\" alt=\"Liquid fertilizer from Comfrey Leaves\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_press.jpg 631w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/comfrey_press-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquid fertilizer from Comfrey Leaves<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comfrey has long been known in Britain as a medicinal herb, its common name was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknitbone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, because it\u00c2\u00a0 assists in healing broken bones and skin complaints. Many people still use products from it for those purposes. Unfortunately some people have a skin allergy to the spiky leaves and stems. Comfrey has the following properties for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P11qW2-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}