The benefits of comfrey
Now you'll notice here this beautiful green matted ground cover, suppressing a whole bunch of undesirable plants that might drop up if it wasn't here.
Now this is actually Comfrey, this is perfectly naturalized, comfrey's a great plant to grow in a whole bunch of areas in your garden, you can make great fertilizer out of it, and it's obviously a great cover crop to help suppress things and mulch the ground.
It is also a very very good compost accelerator added as one of the green components to your compost, it really accelerates that Contra compost with its high nitrogen levels.
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