[Mafro]

Not all bad, fat hen is another you can eat.  Nice too

[Bach in the DHSS]

I turned and sowed one of my beds a few weeks back. You can see the rows where little carrot seedlings should be appearing along with lettuce, calabrese and courgette, but all I've got are these suspicous looking tiny weeds.

This happened last year too I think and mistaking these 'weedlings' for young vegetables all I grew was a bed of nasty weeds.

Pushing the hoe through these hundreds of little guys is bound to upset the seeds I recently planted.

Advice please?!

[DD.]

Let both grow, but not too far.

As soon as you can identify the carrots from the weeds, I'm afraid it's a hand and knees job and painstaking weeding.

You may be able to run the hoe in between the rows, but close weeds will need careful attention.

[sunshineband]

This is how I weed my carrots and parsnips -- very therapeutic it is too, sat there in the sun sorry that was last year. Sat there in my nice warm fleece, in between the showers more like this year

But it still is worth it 

[compostqueen]

The red stemmed "weeds" look like beetroot seedlings

[zestymordant]

This is growing in my potato plot, any ideas?



Thanks

[DD.]

Dandelion.

[zestymordant]

I should have realised, there's tons of them all over the allotment borders. In one corner of the allotment behind the greenhouse there's a bathtub shaped container for growing that I haven't used yet, hadn't noticed it in weeks, looked yesterday and it was full of MASSIVE dandelions!

[Casey76]

Dandelions are very good to add to a salad

[rich24uk]

Any ideas on this one? Can it go in my compost bin?

[DD.]

Chickweed - makes a good green manure!

[Mafro]

Makes a nice soup too

[JayG]

My least favourite weed, because it's never obvious where the main stem is and when you do find it it breaks off when you try to pull it out! 

Stems also seem a bit "rubbery" or something as it's the weed that's most likely to get re-buried rather than decapitated when hoed! 

[zestymordant]

While we're on the subject of carrot plots, here's mine:



Oh dear!

I was wondering if anybody could identify this for me. I doubt it's a weed because I've seen some people in the allotment who look like they know what they're doing with small beds with this in:



Cheers

[DD.]

Strawberries!