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What is this? Just bought house and found in polytunnel
Michael Strange
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Any help to shed light on what this is would be much appreciated. Not much of a gardener and found in polytunnel at our new house. Now about 1m high.
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Hi Michael
looks like something has gone to seed but good and healthy
sooooooooo envious of poly tunnel dig over, mulch then have a go at any veg you fancy they will love it if you don't want to seed this year there are some good choices of plugs at the GCentre good luck ,happy gardening
I wouldn't recommend eating some unidentified plant leaves (sorry Pansyface)! Most likely a leafy green of some sort, but better safe than sorry.
Either Swiss chard or Perpetual spinach - running to seed now so pull up, put on the compost heap and sow some more
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for the help.
Followed pansy's advice and tried some .. now I am dying!
.... no not really. All ok, think as you said it was spinach.
Thanks for the replies.
M.
No idea. Don't eat it just in case though. Are there any cats that come into your garden? I can't grow vegetables as one moggy tom sprays everything within shooting distance. Garden smells like a cattery. If so I'd steer clear of fruit and veg.
Some people on this board are like the kitchen staff who wouldn't let the children eat the produce from the school garden because it hadn't come from the usual firm that supplied the kitchen.
Or the care home staff who banned home-made birthday cakes because they hadn't come from a shop.
I won't eat the desserts left in the school staff room unless I know the family that made it. If you send your children to school with dirt crusted into their skin and unwashed oily hair (and for elementary students, that's a lot of days unwashed).. then I am going to assume your kitchen hygiene isn't of a high standard either. So I'm not eating your cookies.
I can understand the home care staff, especially with older folks that could pick up something quite easily, either due to poor cooking or to someone passing on some germs in the preparation. Maybe the cook was licking the spoon between each stir?
As to the school garden.. a good scrub prior to serving should be sufficient to remove the Hepatitis A from the drunk who peed on the strawberries the night before.
Haha.. doing his civic duty, ay?
I'm a girl with high standards.
But please don't come around and inspect MY kitchen.. my ideals are higher than my reality. Some forgotten vegetable is currently turning into liquid in the bottom crisper drawer of my fridge, there is a mysterious sticky spot on the floor next to the dishwasher that's been there for at least two weeks, and the kitchen counter hasn't seen a wet soapy rag since I cleaned them last Saturday. But the only people I'm feeding is my family..