Blogspot - Interia Dezain

There's a ton of info out there about comfrey but not much detail regarding establishing and managing a comfrey patch so I thought I'd write a post to share my experience on this and explain how we grow comfrey as part of our fertility strategy in the market garden. When writing this article I could not resist to include some of the story of this incredible plant and of the people that have been enchanted by its prowess. So we'll start with a condensed story of comfrey and why I think you should certainly believe the hype. Comfrey 'Bocking 14' in the under story of a Walnut - Juglans regia in our Forest Garden          Part 1. Introduction to Comfrey    A member of the Borage family, Comfrey - Symphytum spp. is native to Europe and Asia and there are 40 recorded species of Comfrey throughout that region. The plant most commonly referred to and used in gardens is Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum, a naturally occurring hybrid of two wi...

I spent the last few days with Smilyan Pavlov from  Huma  selecting design plots for our  Regenerative Landscape Design Course  scheduled for the late summer of this year. I'm very much looking forward to this course and believe we have come up with an excellent format. The focus is on delivering a very practical and realistic experience to the participants wherein we'll be out in the field using real plots of land to show how to survey the topography, botany, soil and habitat of a site. Using the information we gather from our surveys, we'll go through how to analyse the data in order to be able to make informed decisions that result in a design that is truly regenerative, productive and economically and ecologically viable. The plots we are looking to survey during the course were acquired as part of our land stewardship  strategy and we intend to plant a range of experimental perennial polycultutres on these nest year when we expand the polyculture project ....

Human urine provides an excellent source of nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and trace elements for plants, and can be delivered in a form that’s perfect for assimilation.  With a constant, year-round and free supply of this resource available, more and more farmers and gardeners are making use of it. What's in it? Urine is 95% water.  The other 5% consists of urea (around 2.5%), and a mixture of minerals, salts, hormones and enzymes. It is a blood byproduct, but despite containing some bodily waste it is non-toxic. The average urine from a healthy adult will release 11g nitrogen/urea, 1g phosphorus/super-phosphate and 2.5g potassium. The normal range for a 24-hour urine output is 800 to 2000 milliliters (ml) per day with a normal fluid intake of about 2 liters per day.  That's an average of 1400 ml per person, per day! Fresh human urine is sterile and so free from bacteria.  Only when it is older than 24 hours the urea turns into ammonia, which is what causes ...