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What is this plant? It's sprung up out of nowhere, where I've stopped cutting the grass!

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  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,907
    That is a broad bean.😊
    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It looks like a broad bean to me ! Are you near an allotment or bean-growing field?
  • PeterJarvisPeterJarvis Posts: 113
    A broad bean?! That's so funny. The garden is stuck in between two fields that grow farm crops - maize, wheat, lucerne. And I've never grown any veg before. So no idea how it's got here. And there are about six plants scattered around the border where I've left the grass to grow. Very strange!!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 25,231
    But fortuitous😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 2,893
    About 3 times the size of the broad beans I sowed in Feb :o 
    East Lancs
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,872
    This is the second poster we've had in the past couple of months who has had broad beans appear where none were sown .......... is there a Broad Bean Elf out and about in the UK? 

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





  • PeterJarvisPeterJarvis Posts: 113
    Biglad said:
    About 3 times the size of the broad beans I sowed in Feb :o 
    I'm in the south!!! Could have something to do with it.
  • PeterJarvisPeterJarvis Posts: 113
    Dovefromabove said:
    This is the second poster we've had in the past couple of months who has had broad beans appear where none were sown .......... is there a Broad Bean Elf out and about in the UK? 
    could be...
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 622
    Maybe they have been buried and forgotten by squirrels!
    East Anglia
  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,907
    But where did the squirrels find ‘em? 🤔
    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
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