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Plant ID please??

davielovesgravydavielovesgravy Posts: 76
in Problem solving

Hi All

I would like help ID'ing the plant pictured below please.  It was from a pack of mixed annual seeds and is taking over my borders a little, I do not want to get rid of them before they flower though so could anyone tell me what it is please?

Many thanks in advance kind

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    It looks very much like Fat Hen to me - an annual 'weed' that I used to hoe out of Pa's sugar beet field.  An Indian friend calls it Lamb's Quarter and cooks with it, and apparently it's also used as a herb in parts of the US. 

    http://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/fathen.htm 

    But I might be wrong .........


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





  • davielovesgravydavielovesgravy Posts: 76

    Thank you Dovefromabove, yes it does look very similar.  Does anyone agree this is what it is?  Should I remove them as there are quite a few and they are getting fairly big.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    Leave it until it's confirmed Davie - you never know, there may be a wonderful ornamental form I'm not aware of ............. 


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Looks like the bog standard version to me. But quite ornamentalimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    It is considerably bigger than the ones I used to come across Nut - we didn't allow them to get that big!  


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    4 or 5 foot for a good specimen Dove. image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • davielovesgravydavielovesgravy Posts: 76

    These are about 3 foot at the mo, growing rapidly though, should I just get rid of them?  I don't want everything else in the border to suffer.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    How much do you like them? They're generally considered weeds. My neighbour harvests mine for his chickens to eat



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,063

    Fat hen - gets very tall here if I let it and spreads easily.  Pain in the posterior.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • davielovesgravydavielovesgravy Posts: 76

    Thank you all for taking the time to reply, I am just popping out to dig them up!  imageimage

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