what are these mystery plants in my SFG?

whompy 6/7/2013, 11:55 am

Can anyone tell me what these plants are? The first picture shows a plant growing in what is supposed to be my cilantro square. I tried to grow cilantro with seeds, and nothing came up except this plant. It didn't look like a typical weed, so I let it grow. what are these mystery plants in my SFG? Img_2818

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The 2nd plant is the one in the middle with 3 leaves. It's supposed to be snap peas. Is this what snap peas look like when they first come up? Or is it a weed?
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Thanks for your help!

txtink 6/7/2013, 12:09 pm

The first one looks like a type of green - perhaps Mustard. It looks nothing like my cilantro. The bottom one does appear to be weeds like I get in my garden.

brainchasm 6/7/2013, 1:20 pm

The first plant almost looks like chard, without all the stalk, so maybe a beet variety?

The bottom ones don't look like my peas did when they came up. Pea seeds are big, and the seedling is robust, and large.

whompy 6/7/2013, 4:45 pm

Ok, thanks guys!

mschaef 6/7/2013, 11:53 pm

Bottom one is definitely weeds not peas. The top look similar to the Swiss chard I buy at the store do you plant any green near that square? My thinking is that the seed traveled to a new spot when watered.

brainchasm 6/8/2013, 11:56 am

Oh also, in your second pic - the things to the left and right definitely look like baby weeds...but that middle plant could possibly be a tomato seedling, or even a pepper seedling. A better/clearer closeup might help, but cotyledons (seed leaves) are notoriously hard to identify.

Also, the more I think about the first pic, the more it could be a beet variety (including chard). IIRC, their seeds float pretty well, reinforcing mschaef's idea that it may have traveled during watering.

drixnot 6/8/2013, 12:34 pm

I think the one in the middle on the bottom picture might be a maple (from those helicopter seeds)

Hard to tell from the picture though.

Nicola 6/9/2013, 12:18 am

with drixnot,
Oh, those? Only the bane of my SFG existence!
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Those are maple seedlings. The area in my photo is less than one of my squares, and look how many of 'em there are. Sometimes I think I should give up regular gardening, and just grow sugar maples!
(The weird circles are coins to judge size--so much for that; lousy cellphone camera!)

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