"This is a 'soldier' on our allotment.

http://s817.photobucket.com/albums/z...tUK/Allotment/
[Ignore the tap photos]

It looked enough like a bean for us to let it grow and hope for something
useful.
However it is producing what look like seeds.

Any idea what it is?

TIA

Dave R

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Dave R
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

"David WE Roberts" wrote
"This is a 'soldier' on our allotment.

http://s817.photobucket.com/albums/z...tUK/Allotment/
[Ignore the tap photos]

It looked enough like a bean for us to let it grow and hope for something
useful.
However it is producing what look like seeds.

Any idea what it is?

TIA

Dave R

"

I read some responses via the Virgin newsreader (thanks to those who
replied).
However when I tagged the thread to be watched, it disappeared just like
the one in individual.net.
Both accounts show the 'phantom unread watched message' symptom.

If anyone has anything to add, could they please use this thread?

Thanks

Looks rather like Japanese Knotweed! A dwarf form perhaps, and producing
seed !! :-(

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

I wouldn't get alarmed! The resemblance is only because it is almost certainly in the same family, Polygonaceae, the dock family. I'd go with Stewart's previous suggestion of buckwheat.

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Bob Hobden;896098 Wrote:
"David WE Roberts" wrote-

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Looks rather like Japanese Knotweed! A dwarf form perhaps, and producing

seed !! :-(


I wouldn't get alarmed! The resemblance is only because it is almost
certainly in the same family, Polygonaceae, the dock family. I'd go with
Stewart's previous suggestion of buckwheat.


Yes, my wife said they looked like buckwheat seeds.
Probably not a major allotment crop,though.
Is it worth harvesting?

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Only you can decide that! Buckwheat used to be used as an alternative to rice in the trendy macrobiotic diets of the early 70s.