Instead of store-bought fertilizer, you can make your own easily. Using water and this nutrient-packed plant, you'll give ...

My next door neighbour is eyeing me with suspicion. It's not just that 10 minutes ago I trotted home from work and swapped stilettos for wellies. Neither is it my stubborn refusal to borrow his ...

Henry Doubleday (1813-1902), a Quaker, brought Russian comfrey to England. He believed that comfrey would help prevent worldwide famine, so his last 30 years were spent in research. He could never ...

This spring I was hauling five gallon buckets of fertilizer down the Buckhorn Mountain when a skunk ran out in front of me. I hit the brakes hard rather than hit the skunk, the guardrail or a tree.

It sprang up from nothing, as usual, and as a leafy tower a metre high, hung out its pink and purple bells for the bees. Symphytum officinale, or comfrey, totemistic plant of organic gardeners, still ...