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Article #5Re: Feeding plants with herbs
From: David Hare-Scott
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:09
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:09
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"peter" <paxmax2@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:42bfa1c3$0$16490$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > Hi all, > > I'm curious to hear what herbs others have used for feeding thier gardens. > I've found out heaps about Comfrey and it sounds real easy to grow, harvest > and use. It also reads as being a very valuable food source for plants, > especially flowering plants. Be aware that those minerals in comfrey don't come from nowhere. Whatever minerals comfrey may gather up that may be useful in your compost or on your garden come from the soil where it grew. This may be a handy way to adjust the nitrogen balance of your compost but it may also deplete the soil where the comfrey grows. There are that some plants (legumes) that host nitrogen fixing bacteria (that is they make nitrogen compounds out of "thin air'') and these plants can be used as a green manure to improve the nitrogen content of the soil. Comfrey is not in this category. In the long term growing legumes may be a better proposition for providing nitrogen compounds. David
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