Thread: Plant Id please
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Old 18-05-2006, 08:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Sue
 
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Default Plant Id please



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Robert writes

: This is one of 6 identical plants from a fellow gardener's packet of
blight
: resistant tomatoes... which that aren't ... are they? They look similar
to a
: certain weed but surely for the whole packet to produce the same plant
it
: must be a garden worthy plant of some type. Can anyone help please?
Persicaria. Is your fellow gardener completely sure they germinated from
: the packet of seeds, and wasn't simply in the soil in which the
: non-germinating tomato seed were sown?
:
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: Kay

Yes definitely, he transplanted them into position and has even tied them
to
canes in case they were something useful even though they were apparently
not tomatoes.



I love this optimism! (And the thought of persicaria growing up canes!)

Sue W.