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in permaculture deep rooted plants such as comfrey and artichoke are good to plant on the drip lines of fruit trees as the reach down and pull up the trace elements which are so defecient in australian soils...anyone been able to feed fish comfrey

i think yes. it was a long time ago

Beeso - my fish wouldn't take it. Early on I thought the silvers might have taken a bit - but I never was able to replicate. I have no doubt though that they would eat it if incorporated into a pellet (which is my intention).

Stevo - your lucky day, I have one big comfrey plant that was seperate to all the others and is luch. It is about a metre from the AP system coincidentally. Used to have about 30 plants in another patch - but they have all died and the roots have composted.

I will send you a couple of roots. You can easilly divide from them once you have plants.

thanks heading down to mum and dads to measure ammo and cut you some EDPM

Had this link bookmarked regarding treatment of fish diseases....

http://www.webbsonline.com/catalog/meds/

Halfway down you'll find a product called "Jungle Labs Pond Salt" that says in part ...



Seems like comfrey could be beneficial for a few things....

And yes the "New Alchemists" used it as a source of fish feed... dried and used as pellets VB...

http://www.vsb.cape.com/~nature/greence ... 6ponds.pdf

and comfrey leaves are often utilised in composting in general and compost teas due to there high Potassium content

in my moveable growbed i am setting up i might add a "trace element worm farm, half gravel half space for scraps comfrey ect to get some trace elements in that way, prob easier to just add the rock dust tho

oh and i have also been getting baby worms in the bowl of my statue which my return pump goes to, the seem quite happy even tho i thought they would be drowning? i'll get a pic

high DO, won;t drown.

There is all that talk about comfrey giving liver damage - which is probably shit anyway. Regardless, not a problem in this application I believe.

This comfrey plant is looking quite healthy. I must rebuild my stocks from this plant (its all I have left).

VB do I see your rainwater tank still on it's side?????

AP

P.S. Did you get my email of the GH plans?

Rub it in AP. Just for your benefit I will post a picture of my second tank.

Got the plans - thanks mate.

..and the worms...you know, the ones that Les was gonna get

In the tanks mate.