Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: digalotty on May 31, 2010, 21:03
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is it a weed or is it their for a reason
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it is in my strawberry bed , is it a form of comfrey
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Dont know what its called but its everywhere here, I'm pulling it out all the time. It spreads like crazy. >:(
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Is it borage? Hairy leaves,cucumber taste? Only known use is flowers floatwd on top of cocktails 8)
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you could be right spana i think my neighbour plotholder may have said the same, not sure if it has a use though
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Oh, i've just deleted that post cos i didn't think it was right :D
Did you mean that it spreads like crazy or that it might be Alkanet :unsure:
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its alkanet :)
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spana i have just googled alkanet and i think that you are right and it is also related to borage so i think i have my answer , :)
now can i use it as a comfrey or just best to get rid altogether :wub:
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I'd pull it out before it has a chance to seed :wub:
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yep that tomorow nights job :)
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Its green alkanet alright, spreads like wildfire.I would defo pull it up.
A few people on our site were growing it as they thought it was comfrey, i told them what it was and they pulled it up pretty quickly.
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Woops! Got a few roots of this from a friend for my country garden thinking it was Borage! Now I've looked at some pictures I can see the difference!
At the time I thought the root was like Comfrey.... a huge tap root.
Better yank it out quick! It's flowering!