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What is this plant?

jab9192jab9192 Posts: 6
in Fruit & veg
Having recently acquired a vegetable garden in a new house, I am unsure what this plant is, please can someone help identify it?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2019
    Papaver somniferum ... aka opium poppy ... you’ve got a gorgeous one there .. they seed around and pop up all over the place ... gorgeous glaucus foliage and amazing flowers very soon ... they don’t last long so if you can it’ll be worth leaving it where it is to bloom. If you like the flowers you can them let the seed heads ripen on the plant and scatter the seeds in a more convenient place for next year. 
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • jab9192jab9192 Posts: 6
    OK thanks for the help! not exactly meant to be in the vegetable garden then!? Look forward to the blooms!! :-) 
  • pinutpinut Posts: 194
    It does look like a brassica of some kind, possibly a radish. Tear a section of leaf and sniff it to determine if it has that cabbagie smell.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not a brassica ... I’ll stake my beer money on it 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree @Dovefromabove, poppy.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Mine’s a pint of Adnams bitter ... who’s buying? 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Definitely poppy.  The seeds can lie dormant for ages and then germinate when the soil is disturbed.  I made a new bed last year where there'd been grass previously, and loads of them have come up - lovely single plum-coloured ones, and a few pink fluffy doubles which I'm not so keen on so I will pull those out before they seed.



    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    It's not totally out of place in the veg garden, it is the correct poppy for poppy seed as well.
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