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June 12, 2011 5:06 PM Subscribe
PlantID filter: what's this growing in my onions?
I got the onions from a nursery, so I'm curious if it's something interesting or a random weed.
I got the onions from a nursery, so I'm curious if it's something interesting or a random weed.
Weed. Get it out unless you find it more interesting than the onions, in which case: not weed.
posted by trip and a half at 5:26 PM on June 12, 2011
posted by trip and a half at 5:26 PM on June 12, 2011
Best answer: Looks like it could be young pigweed, a wild amaranth relative.
posted by pullayup at 5:27 PM on June 12, 2011
posted by pullayup at 5:27 PM on June 12, 2011
Best answer: Another vote for pigweed. I just pulled several hundred of these things out from between my baby corn stalks. Left to its own devices, my pigweed tops 5'. Get rid of it with extreme prejudice.
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:48 PM on June 12, 2011
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:48 PM on June 12, 2011
Best answer: You can cook pigweed like spinach, it's very nutritious.
Too red on the stems to be basil.
There are red-stemmed basils, but basil would have opposite leaves, these plants have alternate.
posted by oneirodynia at 6:16 PM on June 12, 2011
Too red on the stems to be basil.
There are red-stemmed basils, but basil would have opposite leaves, these plants have alternate.
posted by oneirodynia at 6:16 PM on June 12, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks all. Terminated with extreme prejudice.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 6:49 PM on June 12, 2011
posted by a robot made out of meat at 6:49 PM on June 12, 2011
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posted by Ys at 5:11 PM on June 12, 2011