Note: It is possible that steeping comfrey for more than a week is overkill. This is quite similar to how many gardeners make fertiliser from comfrey, only faster. Then you mix the fertiliser concentrate with an appropriate amount of water. The next season I started experimenting on my own using the procedure from the Woods End study: Mix a nutritious substance with water, stir, wait two to three days, and pour off the liquid. This adventure began when I was writing an article for Mother Earth News magazine on making homemade liquid fertilisers, based on research commissioned from Woods End Laboratories.
I also have experimented by brewing up fertiliser solutions from several national brands of granulated organic fertiliser with excellent results. The material I use as a starter is locally-produced poultry manure product with a nutrient analysis of 5-4-4, which is quite similar to many of the chicken manure pellets sold in UK garden centers. Instead I have been making homemade liquid fertilisers and using them on everything – young seedlings, plants growing in containers, and sweetcorn and other veggies that benefit from a midseason booster feeding. In 2010 I used up my last bottle of organic liquid fertiliser concentrate, and I haven’t bought any since.
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