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Please help identify seedlings
Gardener Eve
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in Fruit & veg
Last year I started a veg patch. The slugs ate all my beetroot seedlings so it didn't do great. I have a load of seedlings in there now & im wondering if any might be betroot or just weeds...
I've attached pics.. Thanks!
I can only add one pic so I'll follow with more
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Top ones look like one of the willowherbs and the bottom might be alkanet, so weeds by the look of them.
Edit: more pics appeared!
3rd one potato I think
Last edited: 01 April 2017 19:31:28
I did have some potatoes nearby last year but not in the actual ground… Is it possible that it could be growing from seed from the flowers?
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Thanks so much by the way!
Have you spread any home made compost on your veg patch? I get the occasional potato 'volunteer' appear, growing from a piece of potato peel which has an eye and which hasn't rotted down properly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No, but thinking about it I didn't see the leftover compost from the potato containers after they were finished and it was all mixed into the vegetable patch compost.
no, but thinking about it I did empty the leftover compost from the potato containers after they were finished and it was all mixed into the vegetable patch compost.
I guess there could've been a small potato that was leftover in there that we didn't notice…?
Well I shall clear the weeds seedlings tomorrow! And this year I'll put my beetroot seeds in pots first until they are stronger… Thank you very much :-)
lol! My dictation software didn't correct properly but hope last post made sense!