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Weed or Veg IDs from my allotment!
SweetPea93
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The feathery leaves in the middle
Different, but also feathered leaves
These bigger leaves keep popping up everywhere. I'd love to know what they might be before I yank them all up tomorrow.
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First one might be a herb Robert seedling, 2nd one is another wild geranium (seeds like mad and is a pest here) and the 3rd could be bindweed, just before it erupts skyward!
Damn, I was hoping it wasn't going to be anything like bindweed, but it's springing up everywhere it fancies, the third one that is, the first two seem to be isolated seedlings just in one patch. Ta muchly!
the first two reminded me a little of my parsnip seedlings a little so wanted check it wasn't a lucky veg seedling before pulling.
I thought the first one a carrot.
2nd a hardy geranium
3rd could be a bean(french?)
Unusual that it's a geranium as I've seen none in the allotments, it's a sentimental plant for me and my family
fidget, I wondered if the first was a parsnip/carrot great minds
3rd I was hopeful for a bean of sorts as it's cropped up a lot, and I dug up a couple of beans when we were digging over the land. What would you recommend? I don't want to leave it in case it's bindweed, should I dig it up, try and contain it for a couple of weeks and see what happens?
Dig down deep and have a look at the roots of the 3rd one - bindweed has a thick white root to confirm:
http://blogs.crocus.co.uk/kitchengarden/2010/07/28/rogues-gallery-bindweed/
http://130.226.173.215/cp/graphics/ImageDatabase/POLCO-EAR-700.jpg
On reflection the third does look terribly like this bindweed seedling.
How disheartening, to rid the soil of bramble roots that had taken over to replace it with bindweed.
Even with it being a young plant will there be thick roots already? There was no bindweed when we started work on it, just lots of very established brambles, 5 years worth of growth!
I have got loads of beans cropping up where they were last year. Partly because I didn't clear last years crop and sticks until April, but I expected the beans that dropped to be either eaten by voles, or to rot in the soil. I might get a better crop off the self setters than the ones I sowed in pots in the greenhouse!!!
They all look like weeds to me. There is a weed that looks remarkably like carrot seedlings and when I saw your first picture my reaction was ug bindweed.