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tess5tess5 Posts: 5
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Hi

 

was wondering if anyone could identify this please.  It has just appeared, we have not planted it.  Looks similar to rhubarb.

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many thanks

 

 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Sorry, I can't open that link - can anyone else open it?


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





  • tess5tess5 Posts: 5

    Sorry I'm not too good at the technical stuff.  I am actually seeing the picture, in the post.

    any advice to how to make it able for you to view

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Can you click on the green tree icon on the toolbar where you type your post, then you'll get instructions to upload the photo from your pc/laptop/whatever .

    Don't think it works for phones tho


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





  • tess5tess5 Posts: 5

    image

     Hope picture viewable this time

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Great! image

    That's last year's Ruby Chard throwing up a flower spike image


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  • tess5tess5 Posts: 5

    Thank you , glad got the picture there.  We have never grown ruby chard, sorry I am not very knowledgeable about gardening, it has just appeared by itself, so would you recommend taking the spike out.

     

    thank you

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Have you grown mixed salad leaves or anything like that?  It could have come in a mixture like that.  Or possibly even in some birdseed. 

    It looks as if there's a brassica of some sort  flowering in the bottom left hand corner (with a yellow flower) - if you've not grown any veg that could have come in bird seed too. 

    Once the chard has flowered and it's seeds are ripe the plant will die.  Unless you want it to seed around the place I'd pull it up and compost/bin it.

    image


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  • tess5tess5 Posts: 5

    Thank you so much, yes we do have an aviary so do use seed and he does put some seed for wild birds also. 

     

    Very interesting the the yellow flowers coming from seed too.  

    It was really puzzling us, image so you have settled our minds.

    kind regards

     

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