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Unknown seedling amongst sweet peas - what is this?

Holls1988Holls1988 Posts: 7
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hi everyone!

In amongst my sweet peas this year, I have this strange interloper. Does anyone recognise this seedling?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s a vetch .., a native wildflower.  It too is a legume and grows in a similar way to peas … also the seed pods and seeds look very similar.  
    A ‘not unusual’ interloper now that seed growers don’t spray their land with loads of chemicals before growing their crops. 

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





  • Holls1988Holls1988 Posts: 7
    Thank you for your prompt and interesting reply!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hopefully your other plants are sweet peas and not more vetch! A recent poster had that problem - all their plants from a sowing were vetch. Very annoying. 

    It's always difficult because it's impossible to tell the seeds apart, so you don't realise until the seeds germinate and start growing.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Holls1988Holls1988 Posts: 7
    The others very much look like peas so fingers crossed!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    🤞 

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





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