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Mystery plant
Lazygingercat
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I am new to gardening, though trying hard. I planted the plant below about a year ago and I have now completely forgotten what it was! (Yes, I have now learnt to keep the labels and put a marker in.) It died down over winter, but now looks strong and healthy. It's planted it my herb patch at my allotment, but I seem to remember planting it because it attracted bees, so I doubt it's edible. It is rather pretty, so hopefully I am not carefully cultivating a weed...
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the link to the photo doesn't work. Try again?
I'm having trouble uploading - I can't seem to save the pic from my phone as a .jpg! Will seek help and try to post later. Apologies.
Am trying again - please bear with me. If this doesn't work I'll have to find a small child to help...
Will it be a veg? I see other veg/herbs in the pic. Is there any taste or smell to the leaves?
In the sticks near Peterborough
To be honest, I haven't smelt or tried to taste it - which of course might have bene an obvious step (told you I was new to this gardening lark)! But I am going down to my allotment (where the plant is) tomorrow, assuming it isn't pouring down, so I'll check. You''re right, sorrel and 'Good King Henry' are nearby and it is in the middle of a herb patch, but in the very vague recesses of my memory I don't remember planting it for 'food'. I'll check it out and report back. Thank you kind people for taking an interest.
PS: this may amuse you - I actually have an 'allotment book' and thought I'd share the entry for that plant with you as an example of how NOT to do it. The entry reads "planted19/5/13: lovage, bergamot, Good King Henry... 'something from the Country market' " Duhh! Perhaps I will take the picture to the next weekly market and see if the plant people there remember it!
looks a bit like horseradish
In the sticks near Peterborough
I wondered about that; the leaves are certainly wavy at the edges and a similar shape, but I thought that 'my' leaves seemed too shiny and tough/eathery? Ther (slightly wilted) radishes I have in my fridge seem a greehy-grey and 'matt'. Are there different types ('scuse my ignorance')?
Horseradish is the plant the sauce comes from. It's a large, perennial, deep rooted.
Loads of assorted radishes out there but this isn't one to chop into your salad. It's hot.
We need a second opinion on this one
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not horseradish.
Looks a bit like a beet of some sort - similar to spinach beet in it's second year and about to run to flower but I don't recall the leaves being that wavy.
Did you sow any Japanese leaf-type salads? They can get quite large and coarse in their second year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.