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Title: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: brownowl23 on June 08, 2011, 21:12:29
Is there a weed that looks like carrot tops................. or have my twin 3 year olds emptied a packet of carrot seeds on my onion plot. They are only in one place.

Told you the question was dumb, and no I didnt think to have any pics. sowwy  :)
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: Buster54 on June 08, 2011, 22:07:34
Is it something like this  ??? http://www.weedalert.com/weed_pages/wa_wild_carrot.htm
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: brownowl23 on June 08, 2011, 22:14:46
yes it is a bit like that. I'll have to see if I can take pics tomorrow when im down there. Its funny its just one small bit. Thats why it made me think that just maybe the boys had been mucking about with seeds on the plot, but I havent taken seeds down for ages.
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: saddad on June 08, 2011, 23:18:39
Nigella seedlings (love in a mist) can look very carroty too... including a small yellow/orange taproot...  :-\
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: pigeonseed on June 08, 2011, 23:42:41
Are they fumitory seedlings?
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q124/pigeonseed/fumitory.jpg)

http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5387031 (http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5387031)

I also felt confused this year as they were popping up near the carrot bed.
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: saddad on June 08, 2011, 23:50:07
Well I'd think that was a carrot!  :o
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: cornykev on June 09, 2011, 05:08:09
And me.     :-\ ???
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: brownowl23 on June 09, 2011, 16:11:49
ok had my site rep look at it his concesus was a weed. so its being pulled.

Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: pigeonseed on June 09, 2011, 21:01:35
QuoteWell I'd think that was a carrot! 

And I did! But once they get a little bigger it becomes clear they're not. Plus the other tip off is that they grow all over the place, and there's no way I could be that messy with carrot seed, even on a windy day!  ;D
Title: Re: dumb question about weeds - but...
Post by: chriscross1966 on June 13, 2011, 17:41:38
I've got one too.... I've got nigella and I can tell the difference.... I leave the nigella, the seed is a useful indian spice called kalonjii... my weed I think might well be a wild carrot, it always comes out looking like a carrot root that's just rubbish... ie thin and spindly......

chrisc