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Need more info I'm afraid - there are 3 or 4 things it might be. When you say the leaves are yellow, do you mean completely yellow all over, every leaf, or do you mean yellow mottling between the veins of the leaves, or just a few yellow leaves. Have you checked the stems, backs of the leaves and bark for any sign of damage or infestation of any kind?

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have it now on eBay. (Very long address make sure you get it all when cutting and pasting).

John.

I will need to try B14 if i see any i am going to get some dont like using tom feeds to much

Yes Mac. It is. Bocking 14 doesn't bully at all. It clumps and the only way to spread it over a large area is by division otherwise it spreads in a very gentile way. Elleme is right to take flowers off, it sounds like it is NOT Bocking 14. She's right about the pong when rotting it down but it doesn't last long and it is worth it. Great added to the compost heap too. Better than a commercial accelerator.

John.

hmmmm i could do with some of this comfrey , getting a bit worried about letting it into my garden due to the bully boy tactics it seems to have, I could do with the liquid feed though . .. . .. .Is it really worth it? please help

I think the Organic Catalogue (formerly HDRA) supply Bocking 14, maybe Tamar Organic as well. I've got comfrey, but I'm unsure what type as it was already here - tall and pink-flowered, bees love it. I always deadhead after flowering just in case. The liquid is stinky but I hold my nose and use it on my toms.

To stop it spreading by seed make sure you get Comfrey Bocking 14. It is specially bred to be seed sterile. If you plant seed it is *so* invasive. You can get roots of Bocking 14 now. If you'd asked last week I could have sent you some but it is all gone now. It is a wonderful fertilizer and a better high pot. food than tomato food.

John

Its latin name is Symphytum officinale, and Pam is SOOO right in saying that it's hard to get rid of! It spreads under ground, and also by seedlings. I had to remove 12 barrow-loads from one area of my garden when we came - then more later.

I am sure that if you found a neighbour with some, they'd did a root up for you - but BEWARE!!!

You might also find seeds from a specialist company - good luck!

I have a clump of Comfrey & often dig roots out for friends, it's very hard to get rid of once you have it! I think I got mine as a plant though. The sort of place you'd find it would be like a village plant sale etc. I love it, & cut it down to ground level about three times a year, putting the large leaves & stalks into the compost bin. I've never made it into a liqued as apparently it smells foul. The herbalists make it into a balm for the skin, it has great healing properties. PamD

You should always mist a few times daily, and I feed mine twice a week with high potash (tomato) liquid feed. Perhaps, Amature, you've tried so many that your taste buds have either been killed off or you're just immune to them, heehee.

Strange Donna. I have grown about 10 types for years. I always feed with tomato food and I always keep humid. Isn't gardening weird?

John

i had the same problem them somebody suggested that i feed the plants with tom food once and week and made the green house very humid by damping down twicw a day the result was looks of fruit and some that would blow your head off hope this helps

Probably nothing Amature. Mine were rubbish as well. Not enough sun. Hope you can make more sun this year. My Scotch bonnets were like sweet peppers last year. Lol.

John.