Lawn repair, King Stropharia, comfrey tea, pond deck

General update video. Comfrey tea is browning up, pond deck is coming together, lawn is getting reseeded to a clover mix (N fixing polyculture lawn), pear insect battles rage on, and more.

Comfrey tea is a foliar or root natural beyond organic fertilizer you can make at home. It leverages the deep taprooted nutrient dredging of comfrey (taking nutrients from way below your garden/trees - so that it doesn't deplete the nutrients for your garden), then cycles that into a nutrient rich water that you use to water or spray your favorite plants with. This can be also be applied as a foliar spray to boost plant uptake faster and at critical times such as just before fruiting or just upon waking up to promote leaves - as it is a balanced N, P and K (plus many other micronutrients) fertilizer.

For a nutrient analysis, look at this research: The Nutrient Content of Organic Liquid Fertilizers in Zimbabwe by AU - Govere, Simbarashe, AU - Madziwa, Benard, AU - Mahlatini, Precious, 2011/05/11
The Nutrient Content of Organic Liquid Fertilizers in Zimbabwe, VL - 1, JO - International Journal of Engineering Research, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325079408_The_Nutrient_Content_of_Organic_Liquid_Fertilizers_in_Zimbabwe, "This paper assessed the nutrient content of three organic liquid manures made from Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes), Russian Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) and Pig Weed red-root (Amaranthus retroflexus) plants." A fantastic read for those who also like getting deep into the science.

King Stropharia is a saprophytic edible (and delicious!) mushroom that enjoys living in some sun, and can live long times in woodchips. This makes it an ideal companion in food forest systems. Today we got some fruiting off ours, and made Asparagus, Onion and Mushroom soup for dinner. Unbelievably tasting free soup.

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