durgahands
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comfrey, high protein and silica/poor man's kelp/easier to raise than rabbits
comfrey, high protein and silica/poor man's kelp/easier to raise than rabbits
Okay; please forgive this possible confusing post as I try to refence the facts but seem lost in a time warp from the past.
That this is an old thread I am aware.
That this list appears incomplete is my problem.
That so I am a handicapped again my problem.
That I might be one goat like soul
Willing to climb through briars just my style
I am simply doing what my heart asks me to do:
Justify my position as necessary with an ultimate goal to be able to meditate more to fully understand the science.
So my question is:
Where is the complete list of ingredients which includes comfrey?
I am trying to justify my sense that cultivating this plant has more than 6 ways to Sunday reasons.
Please could someone direct me to the list of comfrey contents like the one above; and I can maybe see how I can relax to know growing comfrey in the mountains is like having a sea of protein and K nearby.
Isn't the K content of comfrey more than that of kelp?
Not to dimish respect for kelp as I put my bag of kelp meal on the top shelf for sure.
Still can anyone help me find the more recent posts where those who discuss comfrey ?
Its aug 19 and I want to coordinate my plan with reasons to propogate comfrey as my best weapon against starvation, PM and the likes of which, and yes basic good nourishment.
I have recently seen the ravages of mite infestation. On plants no but on my precious pet bordercollie.
The mixing of comfrey leaves into her canned salmon food seems to be miraculous.
The sponge baths of Neem cake and her daily ingestion of neem cake seem to have cured her inside and out well enough to recover.
I feed her nettles too; and horsetail tea and powdered milk and yogurt.
The dog is better.
An so I am happier.
Still
I ask for some help finding the accumulation of data on comfrey and in particular the variety I grow
Bocking #4
Russian comfrey Symphytum Perrigrinum.
What little I know now is that it has higher protein content and only slightly lower allantoin content than Bocking #14.
Both are fabulous sources of sterile non seeding non invasive comfrey.
As the #4 is reportedly more drought hardy than #14 due to it's deeper rooted nature makes me happy I have it.
It is heard that #4 is preferred by animals as feedqk but I only feed worms so whatever.
Okay thanks for your help here.
Again- I am having difficulty finding the most recent discussion on comfrey.
Please redirect.
And the list I need to find where comfrey is evaluated for its content.
I do know it is in the top four for silica content; that's why its my fav easy cheap way to grow my own source of silica K and protein.
co
Compared to the other high silica plants (bamboo,horsechestnut, horsetail)
Comfrey is easiest to grow.
comfrey, high protein and silica/poor man's kelp/easier to raise than rabbits
Most of the vegan nutrient lines out there are mainly comprised of fermented plant extracts. I assume these are derived from various plants and combinations of plants that give their N-P-K values.
I was gifted a list in a thread a while back with a huge list of plants, various elements and veggies with their respected nutrient values. Can this list help inform us as to how we can make our own fermented extracts??
How many of you guys can help fill in some blanks about this subject??
JK....thanks again for the inspiration...
Here is the list I am talking about:
Alfalfa Hay: 2.45/05/2.1
Apple Fruit: 0.05/0.02/0.1
Apple Leaves: 1.0/0.15/0.4
Apple Pomace: 0.2/0.02/0.15
Apple skins(ash) : 0/3.0/11/74
Banana Residues (ash): 1.75/0.75/0.5
Barley (grain): 0/0/0.5
Barley (straw): 0/0/1.0
Basalt Rock: 0/0/1.5
Bat Guano: 5.0-8.0/4.0-5.0/1.0
Beans, garden(seed and hull): 0.25/0.08/03
Beet Wastes: 0.4/0.4/0.7-4.1
Blood meal: 15.0/0/0
Bone Black: 1.5/0/0
Bonemeal (raw): 3.3-4.1/21.0/0.2
Bonemeal (steamed): 1.6-2.5/21.0/0.2
Brewery Wastes (wet): 1.0/0.5/0.05
Buckwheat straw: 0/0/2.0
Cantaloupe Rinds (ash): 0/9.77/12.0
Castor pomace: 4.0-6.6/1.0-2.0/1.0-2.0
Cattail reeds and water lily stems: 2.0/0.8/3.4
Cattail Seed: 0.98/0.25/0.1
Cattle Manure (fresh): 0.29/0.25/0.1
Cherry Leaves: 0.6/0/0.7
Chicken Manure (fresh): 1.6/1.0-1.5/0.6-1.0
Clover: 2/0/0/0 (also contains calcium)
Cocoa Shell Dust: 1.0/1.5/1.7 Coffee Grounds: 2.0/0.36/0.67
Corn (grain): 1.65/0.65/0.4
Corn (green forage): 0.4/0.13/0.33
Corn cobs: 0/0/2.0
Corn Silage: 0.42/0/0
Cornstalks: 0.75/0/0.8
Cottonseed hulls (ash): 0/8.7/23.9Cottonseed Meal: 7.0/2.0-3.0/1.8
Cotton Wastes (factory): 1.32/0.45/0.36
Cowpea Hay: 3.0/0/2.3
Cowpeas (green forage): 0.45/0.12/0.45
Cowpeas (seed): 3.1/1.0/1.2
Crabgrass (green): 0.66/0.19/0.71
Crabs (dried, ground): 10.0/0/0 (I personally just crush the shells with my foot)
Crabs (fresh): 5.0/3.6/0.2
Cucumber Skins (ash): 0/11.28/27.2 ( WOW!!!! Who knew???)
Dried Blood: 10.0-14.0/1.0-5.0/0
Duck Manure (fresh): 1.12/1.44/0.6
Eggs: 2.25/0.4/0.15
Eggshells: 1.19/0.38/0.14
Feathers: 15.3/0/0
Felt Wastes: 14.0/0/1.0
Field Beans (seed): 4.0/1.2/1.3
Feild Beans (shells): 1.7/0.3/1.3
Fish (dried, ground): 8.0/7.0/0
Fish Scraps (fresh): 6.5/3.75/0
Gluten Meal: 6.4/0/0
Granite Dust: 0/0/3.0-5.5
Grapefruit Skins (ash): 0/3.6/30.6 (And people throw these things away? Wow!)
Grape Leaves: 0.45/0.1/0.4
Grape Pomace: 1.0/0.07/0.3
Grass (imature): 1.0/0/1.2
Greensand: 0/1.5/7.0
Hair: 14/0/0/0
Hoof and Horn Meal: 12.5/2.0/0
Horse Manure (fresh): 0.44/0.35/0.3
Incinerator Ash: 0.24/5.15/2.33
Jellyfish (dried): 4.6/0/0
Kentucky Bluegrass (green): 0.66/0.19/0.71
Kentucky Bluegrass (hay): 1.2/0.4/2.0
Leather Dust: 11.0/0/0
Lemon Culls: 0.15/0.06/0.26
Lemon Skins (ash): 06.33/1.0
Lobster Refuse: 4.5/3.5/0
Milk: 0.5/0.3/0.18
Millet Hay: 1.2/0/3.2
Molasses Residue
(From alcohol manufacture): 0.7/0/5.32
Molasses Waste
(From Sugar refining): 0/0/3.0-4.0
Mud (fresh water): 1.37/0.26/0.22
Mud (harbour): 0.99/0.77/0.05
Mud (salt): 0.4.0/0
Mussels: 1.0/0.12/0.13
Nutshells: 2.5/0/0
Oak Leaves: 0.8/0.35/0.2
Oats (grain): 2.0/0.8/0.6
Oats (green fodder): 0.49/0/0
Oat straw: 0/0/1.5
Olive Pomace: 1.15/0.78/1.3
Orange Culls: 0.2/0.13/0.21
Orange Skins: 0/3.0/27.0 (Right up there with Grapefruit. Note: both can attract fruit flies so, bury them in the compost)
Oyster Shells: 0.36/0/0
Peach Leaves: 0.9/0.15/0.6
Pea forage: 1.5-2.5/0/1.4
Peanuts (seed/kernals): 3.6/0.7/0.45
Peanut Shells: 3.6/0.15/0.5 (I grind them up in the food processor first)
Pea Pods (ash): 0/3.0/9.0 (I cut them up with a pair of scissors while shelling them)
Pea (vines): 0.25/0/0.7
Pear Leaves: 0.7/0/0.4
Pigeon manure (fresh): 4.19/2.24/1.0
Pigweed (rough): 0.6/0.1/0
Pine Needles: 0.5/0.12/0.03
Potato Skins (ash): 0/5.18/27.5
Potaote Tubers: 0.35/0.15/2.5
Potatoe Vines (dried): 0.6/0.16/1.6
Prune Refuse: 0.18/0.07/0.31
Pumpkins (fresh): 0.16/0.07/0.26
Rabbitbrush (ash): 0/0/13.04
Rabbit Manure: 2.4/1.4/0.6
Ragweed: 0.76/0.26/0
Rapeseed meal: 0/1.0=2.0/1.0=3.0
Raspberry leaves: 1.45/0/0.6
Red clover hay: 2.1/0.6/2.1
Redrop Hay: 1.2/0.35/1.0
Rock and Mussel Deposits
From Ocean: 0.22/0.09/1.78
Roses (flowers): 0.3/0.1/0.4
Rye Straw: 0/0/1.0
Salt March Hay: 1.1/0.25/0.75
Sardine Scrap: 8.0/7.1/0
Seaweed (dried): 1.1-1.5/0.75/4.9 (Seaweed is loaded with micronutrients including: Boron, Iodine, Magnesium and so on.)
Seaweed (fresh): 0.2-0.4/0/0
Sheep and Goat Manure (fresh): 0.55/0.6/0.3
Shoddy and Felt: 8.0/0/0
Shrimp Heads (dried): 7.8/4.2/0
Shrimp Wastes: 2.9/10.0/0
Siftings From Oyster Shell Mounds: 0.36/10.38/0.09
Silk Mill Wastes: 8.0/1.14/1.0
Silkworm Cocoons:10.0/1.82/1.08
Sludge: 2.0/1.9/0.3
Sludge (activated): 5.0/2.5-4.0/0.6
Smokehouse/Firepit Ash:0/0/4.96 (I put the ashes from my smoker in the pile)
Sorghum Straw:0/0/1.0
Soybean Hay: 1.5-3.0/0/1.2-2.3
Starfish: 1.8/0.2/0.25
Sugar Wastes (raw): 2.0/8.0/0
Sweet Potatoes: 0.25/0.1/0.5
Swine Manure (fresh): 0.6/0.45/0.5
Tanbark Ash: 0/0.34/3.8
Tanbark Ash (spent): 0/1.75/2.0
Tankage: 3.0-11.0/2.0-5.0/0
Tea Grounds: 4.15/0.62/0.4
Timothy Hay: 1.2/0.55/1.4
Tobacco Leaves: 4.0/0.5/6.0
Tobacco Stems: 2.5-3.7/0.6-0.9/4.5-7.0
Tomatoe Fruit: 0.2/0.07/0.35 (A note on tomatoe fruit: These should be hot composted. I just let any rotted or insect eaten tomatoes compost in the soil beneath the plants and have "freebees" come back each consecutive year. Hot composting will kill the seeds.)
Tomatoe Leaves: 0.35/0.1/0.4
Tomatoe Stalks: 0.35/0.1/0.5
Tung Oil Pumace: 6.1/0/0
Vetch Hay: 2.8/0/2.3
Waste Silt: 9.5/0/0
Wheat Bran: 2.4/2.9/1.6
Wheat (grain): 2.0/0.85/0.5
Wheat Straw: 0.5/0.15/0.8
White Clover (Green): 0.5/0.2/0.3
Winter Rye Hay: 0/0/1.0
Wood Ash: 0/1.0-2.0/6.0-10.0 (A note on Wood ash: Wood Ash can contain chemicals that could harm plants and also carcinogens so, they should be composted in moderation)
Wool Wastes: 3.5-6.0/2.0-4.0/1.0-3.5
Okay; please forgive this possible confusing post as I try to refence the facts but seem lost in a time warp from the past.
That this is an old thread I am aware.
That this list appears incomplete is my problem.
That so I am a handicapped again my problem.
That I might be one goat like soul
Willing to climb through briars just my style
I am simply doing what my heart asks me to do:
Justify my position as necessary with an ultimate goal to be able to meditate more to fully understand the science.
So my question is:
Where is the complete list of ingredients which includes comfrey?
I am trying to justify my sense that cultivating this plant has more than 6 ways to Sunday reasons.
Please could someone direct me to the list of comfrey contents like the one above; and I can maybe see how I can relax to know growing comfrey in the mountains is like having a sea of protein and K nearby.
Isn't the K content of comfrey more than that of kelp?
Not to dimish respect for kelp as I put my bag of kelp meal on the top shelf for sure.
Still can anyone help me find the more recent posts where those who discuss comfrey ?
Its aug 19 and I want to coordinate my plan with reasons to propogate comfrey as my best weapon against starvation, PM and the likes of which, and yes basic good nourishment.
I have recently seen the ravages of mite infestation. On plants no but on my precious pet bordercollie.
The mixing of comfrey leaves into her canned salmon food seems to be miraculous.
The sponge baths of Neem cake and her daily ingestion of neem cake seem to have cured her inside and out well enough to recover.
I feed her nettles too; and horsetail tea and powdered milk and yogurt.
The dog is better.
An so I am happier.
Still
I ask for some help finding the accumulation of data on comfrey and in particular the variety I grow
Bocking #4
Russian comfrey Symphytum Perrigrinum.
What little I know now is that it has higher protein content and only slightly lower allantoin content than Bocking #14.
Both are fabulous sources of sterile non seeding non invasive comfrey.
As the #4 is reportedly more drought hardy than #14 due to it's deeper rooted nature makes me happy I have it.
It is heard that #4 is preferred by animals as feedqk but I only feed worms so whatever.
Okay thanks for your help here.
Again- I am having difficulty finding the most recent discussion on comfrey.
Please redirect.
And the list I need to find where comfrey is evaluated for its content.
I do know it is in the top four for silica content; that's why its my fav easy cheap way to grow my own source of silica K and protein.
co
Compared to the other high silica plants (bamboo,horsechestnut, horsetail)
Comfrey is easiest to grow.
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