Best way to Home Compost.

[spandit]

We have 3 bays, about 8x3'. Grass clippings, tea bags, coffee grounds as well as dirty straw from the pigs go on there, plus ash from the fire. I also "water" it myself on occasion...

One of the bays is covered by a Laura Ashley rug as apparently cheaper carpet wouldn't work. My wife never liked that rug

 

[Macaroon]

Comfrey doesn't need full sun, I have mine in a bed between two buildings which is airy but shaded, in the height of summer it gets perhaps 1.5 hrs. of sun and flourishes there; we used to grow huge volumes of the stuff in between paddocks and woodland edge to feed the horses at stud and it flourished there, as well. In my experience it thrives on hard cutting back, I think in your situation I'd be tempted to trim it back hard very early, back to just two pairs of leaves, and see if it responds to that.

 

[Toddy]

This is the same one that grows here…the park is about a mile away.
http://www.wildflowersofstrathclydepark.org.uk/Comfrey.htm

It's very pretty when it's first coming up with just fresh leaves showing, then it gets kind of straggly and after the flowers are by it just dies right back.

M

 

[Laurentius]

I have one of those black compost bins that somebody gave me, but I have not confined my compost making to that. Most folks on the allotments improvise with whatever they can find make a compost container, old doors, bits of corrugated iron salvaged from roofing, anything really, so long as you have the worms it will rot, it is the worms that do all the work. I mix my general green waste with fresh horse manure as there is plenty of it available.

 

[Macaroon]

Don't let it flower, Mary; cut it back hard as soon as the flowers appear and then if you like it flowering, allow it to do so from about late July or early August.

 

[bigbear]

We grow comfrey on our allotment as an ornamental plant in the little flower garden, and cut it constantly for plant food made by soaking a bucket of leaves in water for two weeks, ir stinks like a poke of devils but it is great plant food. A constant two week cycle just about keeps it under control.
As for compost, dont over think it, just throw in all your veg trimmings,egg shells, tea bags etc, water if its dry and cover if it gets too wet, nature does the rest.