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Plant or weed?

7bq8bwmnd6-CrpiY1e7bq8bwmnd6-CrpiY1e Posts: 2
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I have had some top soil delivered this year and it’s turned out to be full of weed seeds, plastic, glass etc and a vine like thing has grown that I didn’t plant. Can you identify it? I’m hoping it’s not knotweed


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Possibly Russian Vine Fallopia baldschuanica. 
    A pretty but very invasive climber. Not known as Mile a Minute Vine for nothing. 


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





  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    That passes for topsoil? 😲
  • 7bq8bwmnd6-CrpiY1e7bq8bwmnd6-CrpiY1e Posts: 2
    There is some vine stuff that comes out the grass that I keep pulling out but it never gets long enough to flower. This one is in a raised bed full of the new soil (landfill scrapings). I’m hoping a bit of manure and compost over winter might make it a bit better. 
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I think it looks like buckwheat, a pretty common birdseed and cover crop ingredient.
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