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Carrots?

itsueyitsuey Posts: 42
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I buried a load of kitchen waste in the garden before I planted anything; carrot peelings and ends, potato peelings, egg shells, tea bags etc, and the other day I noticed these had popped up everywhere. To my very inexperienced eye, they look like carrots?



Slightly unrelated - is this a chive? I'm fairly sure it is but I wanted a second opinion from someone who knows what they're talking about before I eat it. Sorry for the blurry photo, I did have a better one but it was too big to upload. Also please excuse my weeds, they are slowly being eradicated.

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I don't think carrots will grow from peelings only seed. Pick off a leaf and rub it in your hand it should have a strong carroty smell if it is a carrot. Yes they look like chives again rub and smell.
    AB Still learning

  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Those are most certainly chives, As to the carrot lookalike, if those were in my garden they would be fumitory one of my more common weeds.

  • itsueyitsuey Posts: 42
    edited June 2018
    Pulled some leaves off and gave them a sniff, they don't seem to smell of anything, but I don't know if that's because they don't, or if I just can't smell anything any more. So I pulled one up. 

    I did put carrot tops in there as well as peelings, can you grow them from tops? 


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