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Sweet pea ...or eat me ?

SunnyspotSunnyspot Posts: 59
in Problem solving
Hello everyone!

lovely day for gardening today! I wander if there are any plant detectives out there?  I have a plant which is coming up in rows- which makes me think it must have been sown at one time - but i don't recognise it ?  its the bottom picture 
And i have sweet peas and eating garden peas which seem to have lost their labels and they now look the same plant ??  
Any identifications greatly received! Also any ideas to stop labels going missing /blowing away etc 
Thank you !

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  • Liz.S.Liz.S. Posts: 55
    Can't help with the peas but the plants in the bottom picture look like self sown sycamore trees, pull them up.
    "Life returns. Life prevails. Resistance is futile" Rusty the dalek
  • SunnyspotSunnyspot Posts: 59
    Wow. Really? Have no idea where they would have come from.....  thank you Liz 
  • yvonnepittamsyvonnepittams Posts: 4
    By now you will know which is which, Sunnyspot, but the sweet peas ought to have been fractionally "hairy" compared to eating peas' smoothness of leaf.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    As far as labelling goes - if you're re-using a pot which has a sticky label on it, as in your photo, you could write the name of the plant on the existing label.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • celcius_kkwcelcius_kkw Posts: 753
    edited June 2020
    I believe sweet peas are poisonous and should not be eaten.. they do look very similar to garden peas so I think if in doubt, don’t eat it. Both belong to the same family and it’s a bit like identifying edible mushrooms.. if you’re not sure err on the safe side..
  • SunnyspotSunnyspot Posts: 59
    Thank you for your comments folks , great tip about the sweet pea hairy element , will look for this in future!  And yes .. all is now revealed, and the eating peas were delish!!

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Those pix were definitely edibles, not sweet peas  :)
    The foliage is different. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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