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What have I just pulled out the ground?

coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
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Can you ID for me please?

Luxembourg

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    It looks like belladonna of the nightshade family.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Wow. Should I keep? 

    Luxembourg
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    It's likely black nightshade (solanum nigrum.)  Poisonous, but not lethal.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    coccinella said:
    Wow. Should I keep? 

    Up to you.  It''s a wild flower, classed as a weed.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    And they selfseed readily all
    over the place .. fine for a ‘wildlife garden’ if you have no vulnerable children playing unsupervised there.  Otherwise I’d remove them. 

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





  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    @Dovefromabove
    No children but it was growing next to the kale. What do you think, should I discard the kale? 

    Luxembourg
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    No it won’t affect the kale … plant toxins don’t transfer from one plant to another. But if it’s in a veg patch I’d get rid of it simply because it’s easier to work a veg patch if it doesn’t have weeds in it 😊 

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





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I call it Deadly Nightshade.  Now wash your hands.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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