With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves. However, they do not
look like anything I have ever seen or eaten as lettuce until now.
Can anyone please take a look at tell me whether these are safe to
eat? There are two types. The first photo shows them together, and
the second and third focus on the two different types.

The other half of the packed, sowed on another row, has not even
germinated - whether this is due to poor weather or whether the seeds
have been eaten by something, I don't know.

TIA.

http://i15.tinypic.com/6c7q1s2.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/62h3x47.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/4ykdtev.jpg

Cat(h)

PS - I seem to have been very efficient about erradicating any trace
of "chervil", so have not been able to take a pic for proper
identification here :-(

On Jul 22, 6:53 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves.

You have a few weeds in there Cath but I can also see some rocket, so
pick out those and you will have a nice salad.

Judith

" writes
On Jul 22, 6:53 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves.

You have a few weeds in there Cath but I can also see some rocket, so
pick out those and you will have a nice salad.

It looks very much like a packet of mixed salad such as those sold by
T&M or Chiltern. There's something which looks like radish tops (????
rocket) and some cabbagy type leaves, which seem to be the things that
grow best from such mixes.

You also seem to have clover and grass, which i wouldn't eat ;-)
The flat chervil type leaves could be chervil, but I have a nasty
suspicion form what seems to be markings on them that they might be
buttercup - again, not to be eaten if they are buttercup.

I suspect it's best to grow mixes like this in compost rather than
garden soil if you're going to use as a 'cut and come again' crop, so
that you can be sure that everything in the mix is meant to be there.

--
Kay

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:36:44 +0100, K wrote:

" writes
On Jul 22, 6:53 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves.

You have a few weeds in there Cath but I can also see some rocket, so
pick out those and you will have a nice salad.

It looks very much like a packet of mixed salad such as those sold by
T&M or Chiltern. There's something which looks like radish tops (????
rocket) and some cabbagy type leaves, which seem to be the things that
grow best from such mixes.

You also seem to have clover and grass, which i wouldn't eat ;-)
The flat chervil type leaves could be chervil, but I have a nasty
suspicion form what seems to be markings on them that they might be
buttercup - again, not to be eaten if they are buttercup.

I suspect it's best to grow mixes like this in compost rather than
garden soil if you're going to use as a 'cut and come again' crop, so
that you can be sure that everything in the mix is meant to be there.


thank you Judith and K.
I *know* that I have a few weeds there. In fact, I took infinite
precautions to minimise the numbers actually showing on the pic ;-)
And yes there are some creeping buttercups in there.
You guys are far too eagle eyed.

Thanks again!

Cat(h)

In message , "Cat(h)"
writes
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves. However, they do not
look like anything I have ever seen or eaten as lettuce until now.
Can anyone please take a look at tell me whether these are safe to
eat? There are two types. The first photo shows them together, and
the second and third focus on the two different types.

The other half of the packed, sowed on another row, has not even
germinated - whether this is due to poor weather or whether the seeds
have been eaten by something, I don't know.

TIA.

http://i15.tinypic.com/6c7q1s2.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/62h3x47.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/4ykdtev.jpg

Cat(h)

I'm not going to claim that I can identify the plants, though the
suggestions of rocket and salad Brassicas are plausible, but there are
also things known as oak leaf lettuces.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:43:44 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In message , "Cat(h)"
writes
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves. However, they do not
look like anything I have ever seen or eaten as lettuce until now.
Can anyone please take a look at tell me whether these are safe to
eat? There are two types. The first photo shows them together, and
the second and third focus on the two different types.

The other half of the packed, sowed on another row, has not even
germinated - whether this is due to poor weather or whether the seeds
have been eaten by something, I don't know.

TIA.

http://i15.tinypic.com/6c7q1s2.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/62h3x47.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/4ykdtev.jpg

Cat(h)

I'm not going to claim that I can identify the plants, though the
suggestions of rocket and salad Brassicas are plausible, but there are
also things known as oak leaf lettuces.

Salad brassica, quite possibly for what looks like radish tops. Oak
leaf, I grow in other parts and this is definitely not it.
Also, the one suggested to be "rocket" does not look anything like the
rocket which i am also growing nearby.
I grow mixed lettuce most years, and this is the first time those two
types of leaves have come up - hence my astonishment.

Thanks for all your efforts.
Cat(h)

On 22/7/07 19:13, in article
,
" wrote:

On Jul 22, 6:53 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves.

You have a few weeds in there Cath but I can also see some rocket, so
pick out those and you will have a nice salad.

Judith


I thought the first photo might be radishes? Do you remember planting
those, Cat?
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Stewart Robert Hinsley writes
In message , "Cat(h)"
writes
With the poor weather and the general lack of time, I have had little
time to do much in and keep an eye on the garden. However, in recent
times, I have noticed some plants growing in a straight line where I
sowed half of a packet of mixed lettuce leaves. However, they do not
look like anything I have ever seen or eaten as lettuce until now.
Can anyone please take a look at tell me whether these are safe to
eat? There are two types. The first photo shows them together, and
the second and third focus on the two different types.

The other half of the packed, sowed on another row, has not even
germinated - whether this is due to poor weather or whether the seeds
have been eaten by something, I don't know.

TIA.

http://i15.tinypic.com/6c7q1s2.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/62h3x47.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/4ykdtev.jpg

Cat(h)

I'm not going to claim that I can identify the plants, though the
suggestions of rocket and salad Brassicas are plausible, but there are
also things known as oak leaf lettuces.

Tend to have rather thin leaves, often flushed dark red.

That collection of seedlings looks exactly like the mixed salad that
I've got growing in a pot in the greenhouse, but I'm not going to advise
anyone to eat it on the basis of that! I can't be confident that
anything is edible on the basis of a photograph.
--
Kay

On Jul 22, 11:00 pm, K wrote:
That collection of seedlings looks exactly like the mixed salad that
I've got growing in a pot in the greenhouse, but I'm not going to advise
anyone to eat it on the basis of that! I can't be confident that
anything is edible on the basis of a photograph.

They look like a row of mixed leaves that I have growing in a poly
tunnel with a few weeds thrown in, I just pick the ones that I am sure
of and leave the rest.

Judith

In message . com,
" writes
On Jul 22, 11:00 pm, K wrote:
That collection of seedlings looks exactly like the mixed salad that
I've got growing in a pot in the greenhouse, but I'm not going to advise
anyone to eat it on the basis of that! I can't be confident that
anything is edible on the basis of a photograph.

They look like a row of mixed leaves that I have growing in a poly
tunnel with a few weeds thrown in, I just pick the ones that I am sure
of and leave the rest.

Judith

Looks to me like red kale (deeply cut grey-green leaves with pinkish
midribs) and either a leaf radish such as jaba or possibly turnip
greens.
--
Max Wright
www.plotcrop.co.uk