by David The Good
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Over the last weeks I released two videos, one titled Comfrey is Terrible, and the other follow-up video, Comfrey is Amazing.
In doing so, I hope to illustrate that no plant or gardening method is really a “one size fits all” solution. Though comfrey grew poorly for us in Florida, it grew great in Tennessee. In one location, it’s indestructible, in the other, it’s a whiny little fussy wimpy baby.
I’m so tempted to make the title of my next video “Comfrey is So-So.”
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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2 responses to “Comfrey”
I appreciate that about you, David. Never a one-size fits all solution, always the scattershot approach.
Speaking of scattershot, I’m about to start ordering some fruit trees for my new 6 rows of Grocery Row Gardens at my new property in Mims, Florida. So excited!
If you had this climate, what would be your top 5 tropical/subtropical push the boundary trees you would try?
I’m thinking of trying: Ice cream bean, white sapote, maybe a jackfruit seedling for the fun of it, maybe a rose apple. I’ll definitely have persimmons, loquats, mulberries, and lots of bananas. There are so many fruit trees that we are on the border for. My problem is I’ve never tasted many of these, so I have no idea which ones are good! I was initially just going to load it up with plums, peaches, pears, apples, mangoes, loquats, mulberries, etc. that grow well here, but then I opened some of the slightly more southern nursery websites and am overwhelmed by all the more tropical species: Pitomba, pitongatuba, sugar apple, cherimoya, jamun, wampee, lotus plum, blackberry jam fruit, lychees, longans, tamarinds. Any recommendations on where to start?
David the good … I’m so thrilled with your approach to gardening. I’m passionately a gardener. Always will be . Wish you could help me with info or? I’m trying to help poeple prep for the future with survival gardening