Chickweed - a common weed of disturbed land - it got it's name as it was chopped up and fed to young poultry. Cagebirds like it too - and it's very good as a salad veg or in an egg sarnie
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ha ha not sure how that came to be in a with a packet of Tumbling Ted, Trailing Rock Soapwort seeds. Thought it looked different from the other seedlings that came up, the little flowers have only appeared in the last week.
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Chickweed - a common weed of disturbed land - it got it's name as it was chopped up and fed to young poultry. Cagebirds like it too - and it's very good as a salad veg or in an egg sarnie
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ha ha not sure how that came to be in a with a packet of Tumbling Ted, Trailing Rock Soapwort seeds. Thought it looked different from the other seedlings that came up, the little flowers have only appeared in the last week.
Contamination can occur at any stage. One year I had Nicandra physolodes, shoo-fly plant, in so many seed pots it must have come from the compost.
In the sticks near Peterborough
May have come from the compost, 1st time i've had this.
It is apparently very good if you suffer from excema.You can even buy soothing chickweed ointment.