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What the heck is this Strawberry or Weed?
So this might be a bit of a stupid question
but I bought some Baron Von Solemacher Strawberrys in a hanging basket. I've noticed this rather large thing growing in the middle of them!
I thought it was just a very fast growing strawberry but my partner insists it has to be a weed as it is about 6x bigger than all the other strawberries. I'm still not convinced... The first image is of my lovely little strawberries - the rest are ... the mystery. I've taken it out and put it in another pot just incase. Any thoughts?
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That is def a weed
Sorry 
I think it's groundsel
It's certainly not a strawberry.
Those strawbs look tiny. Are they this year's runners?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks guys. Yeah.. it did seem a bit... huge compared the others.
These are little strawberries grown from seed from the Hanging Basket "Grow Your Own" at Homebase. I had some problems initially - for starters I watered them one day and then scorched half of them. Also before they were even seedlings and had been planted my cat was very sneaky and managed to get into the basket and dump out a load of soil... I started with about 20... now I have about 5 
perhaps now that massive weed has been removed they'll stand a better chance. 
Yes, I'm sure they will do better without the competition
In the sticks near Peterborough