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cab

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:10 am Post subject: Horseradish for...?
I have horseradish. I want comfrey (root cuttings or plants), but I'm open to other offers. Cab.

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:16 am Post subject:
We have comfrey, some could probably do with coming out of the potato bed, but it doesn't have a name (some are pale blue and some are dark). I couldn't guarantee its edibility and it's more prolific - read "invasive" - than the Bocking 14 (I believe). But we don't want any horseradish

Paddington Bear

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:11 pm Post subject:
We have some comfrey we have been trying to get rid of for a few years and can dig up some at the weekend!

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:20 pm Post subject:
Cab, I think Bear and I are proving that horseradish for comfrey might be something of an equal swap

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...?

cab wrote:

I want comfrey (root cuttings or plants), but I'm open to other offers.

English or Russian, Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain I believe.

mochyn

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 6:55 pm Post subject:
Cab: I bought the lemons today!

dougal

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...?

Treacodactyl wrote:

Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain

IIRC "Bocking 14"?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:26 pm Post subject:
That's the one I was thinking about.

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:47 pm Post subject:

I wonder where you heard that then?????(not you Dougal

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Bugs wrote:

...more prolific - read "invasive" - than the Bocking 14 (I believe).

Apparently (according to Jekka McVicar, who isn't sitting here with me, I just have a book) the Bocking one has 2-3 times as much hmm potassium (I had to look it up again) as common or wild comfrey..but that's still good.

sean
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:50 pm Post subject:
Have you two considered the possibility of talking to each other. I'm told it's relatively simple, though you may have to turn away from your computers briefly.

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:53 pm Post subject:
I was talking to him! I told him the name twice this evening, so don't you asterisk me, you jumped up little schoolboy you (Anyway, we haven't got two computers since the drama with Dell - we're sharing a remarkably quick and sturdy handmedown from our surrogate dog's owners. How Downsizery is that? )

sean
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 8:55 pm Post subject:
Ah well, in that case you have my sympathy, he's obviously deaf.

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 05 9:00 pm Post subject:
Awfully polite of you not to dwell on the fact that he might be ignoring me - after all, who would want to? Even if they got the opportunity...

cab

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 7:42 am Post subject:
Blimey, all the comfrey in the world It's really for green manure, and most strains are fairly good for that; whichever comfrey has pretty flowers will do me. So if you chaps (Paddington, Bugs) haven't got such an interest in horseradish, what else can I offer you? (Bugs, did you get the seeds?).

ButteryHOLsomeness

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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Horseradish for...?

dougal wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Russian is best for liquid manure I believe although their is a special strain

IIRC "Bocking 14"?

what does IIRC mean? i keep seeing it and i can't figure it out

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