Gardening

How to Make Comfrey Liquid Fertilizer Part 2: Leaves

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:47:40 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. Begin with Part 1: Jugs. With those done, I harvested leaves.

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How to Make Comfrey Liquid Fertilizer Part 1: Jugs

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:00:21 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Today I started making liquid fertilizer from Russian comfrey. This plant fills a lot of guild roles in permaculture including fertilizer, miner, mulcher, protector, attractor. I have been using it primarily as a bee plant that I can also slash-and-drop several times a season. I grow it under many of my trees and there's some in the prairie garden too.

There are various ways to make liquid fertilizer from comfrey. I will be testing two: 1) a small amount of comfrey leaves in a large amount of water, and 2) only comfrey leaves crammed tightly in a jug. (See Part 2: Leaves.)

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How to Secure Trough Pots to a Bench

Wed, 14 May 2025 05:40:08 GMT

Posted by: ysabetwordsmith

Today's project was filling a set of trough pots and securing them to the benches of the new picnic table. (This is from Tuesday, but it's after midnight so the date reads Wednesday. See some "before" pictures.) There are 6 troughs total, although one already had wild strawberries in it from earlier. Each bench holds 3 troughs. I got these and a bunch of other pots when Big Lots went out of business.

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Tutorial: Making a Storage Container Compost Bin

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:50:45 GMT

Posted by: teapot_rabbit

I hesitate to even call this a tutorial, since it's basically me saying "drill a bunch of holes in a bin!" but I found my inspiration in a similar tutorial, so I'll pass along my improvements on the method.

Without further ado, here's how to turn a plastic storage container (Sterilite or similar) into a compost bin. The whole process takes less than ten minutes.

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