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Is this a weed?

gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 281
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Got these lettuce/cabbage-y looking things growing where I've sown seeds - I'm fairly sure it's not something I've sown but can't find it in any of the UK weed ID things. Not sure whether to leave them in or remove!

 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    It looks like a type of brassica and may have come from birdseed.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 2,720
    edited May 2020
    Asian or mustard greens?  Yum in salad.  Could be Chinese cabbage.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 281
    Ah ha... @BobTheGardener there certainly is a lot of bird seed in my garden! 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    edited May 2020
    @gilla.walmsley I've had all sorts of weird and wonderful things popping-up from birdseed!  One of my favourites was a brassica of some kind but had white flowers, quite a lot larger than you see on veg that has gone to seed.  I suspect it was a radish of some type, quite beautiful.  I was going to collect the seed but forgot!
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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