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beac

(9,992 posts)
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 02:50 PM Jun 2012

And then there were twelve...

My eleven tomatoes just gained a friend. I found a volunteer seedling growing strong and healthy in my pot of goat's rue? devil's shoestring? some-weed-in-the-pea-family-that-ironically-grew-in-the-container-where-I-failed-at-growing-sweet-peas-last-year-so-I-left-it. Weeds looks mostly like this:



Anyway, based on its location, it must have grown from a "mystery tomato" a neighbor gave me last year. So, it will be another mystery this year.

And now I'll get to try NRaleighLiberal's 2-gallon indeterminate method (explained here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1159&pid=1600) this year instead of waiting until next!

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And then there were twelve... (Original Post) beac Jun 2012 OP
wild sweet pea Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2012 #1
Yes, some are perennial...pests. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #2
"Butter and eggs"....... NCarolinawoman Jun 2012 #3
Odd thing, the field behind me has Blue-eyed Grass out the kazoo, Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #5
I had to look up "butter and eggs". We always called them snap dragons. shraby Jun 2012 #6
Oh how I wish! Alas, I planted a mix of annual sweet peas and, though they beac Jun 2012 #4
ahh, Devil's shoestring or rabbit pea Viva_La_Revolution Jun 2012 #7
Yes, I was pretty sure it could be a menace based on beac Jun 2012 #8

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
2. Yes, some are perennial...pests.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 05:21 PM
Jun 2012

I went through a "wildflower" phase here, and planted some wild sweet peas. And they are trailing all over everything years later, even with all my efforts to get rid of it. The one thing to remember about wildflowers is that they are often very persistent. And don't ask me about the Butter and Eggs.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
5. Odd thing, the field behind me has Blue-eyed Grass out the kazoo,
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 09:06 PM
Jun 2012

and I have tried to transplant some of it in my yard. It just will not take in my flower beds, or my yard, or the border between the two properties. Go figure.

Butter and eggs certainly does take over in the flower beds though. But it at least is a pretty flower and the plant is not huge. Not like that sweet pea!!! It creeps on everything.

My childhood favorites were Buttercups, and I did get some of them to grow for me, but they are not invasive.

beac

(9,992 posts)
4. Oh how I wish! Alas, I planted a mix of annual sweet peas and, though they
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 08:41 PM
Jun 2012

grew lovely vines, they never actually flowered. Not even sure if my weed is goats rue or devil's whatever, but it is definitely a weed b/c it showed up all over the place this year.

It is non-fragrant, like the one you linked, but the flowers are really TINY. I only assumed the pea-family thing b/c a) it had pea-like tendrils when it was in the growth stage and b) it's now making pea'ish pods. I then Googled and got the goats rue/devils shoestring idea, but the pictures still don't QUITE match my weed.

Of course, I got a free tomato b/c of my laissez-faire weed-gardening attitude, so apathy was its own reward in this case.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
7. ahh, Devil's shoestring or rabbit pea
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 09:48 AM
Jun 2012

also known in my yard as "gdmfrickingsombtch" I didn't recognize at first, cause here in Oregon they're very purple (and white).
I wait till it flowers, then yank em up before they set seed.

beac

(9,992 posts)
8. Yes, I was pretty sure it could be a menace based on
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 03:41 PM
Jun 2012

how many places it popped up this year. Will be sure to rip it up before those pods burst!

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