doesnt taste like weed, didnt plant carrots, have a ton of volunteers of stuff, but I recognize them. ANYONE with a clue?
unknown herb-or wolf in the henhouse?
try again
my web is poppin in and out, one more pic, stems, flowers tiny, and I cannot for the life of me id it
Hi, I am by no means an herb expert but could it be dill? It doesn't look like any weed I've seen.
I did plant dill, and saw a plant in walmart today that rings a bell- fern leaf dill- so thanx for a good job at my volunteer wild child, chuckle,
Dill is very fragrant, pinch off a stem and sniff it. I was thinking dill too.
Kittriana ~ before you consume, please check it out. I thought it favored Queen Annes lace but got to looking in my reference books and there are a few other deadly plants that resemble. Dill will definintely be distinctive as you know. All other plants require more of an expert than I am.
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pod-its in my herb garden, or just outside the boundaries, there are tiny tiny near white flowers on it already, and tho it does NOT taste of dill like the seeds-it reminds me so far of a faint carroty flavor if any at all, but it is crowded in around onions, pansies, chives, bronze leaf mustard, and I do recognize it as SOMETHING I had a year ago, I'm a good one at careful for poisonous plants, honest. I checked my little handbook and did sniffs, but I truly believe this is the fern leaf dill, it is what is offered here in the stores, mine just came up volunteer. I have a new volunteer now - one of the basils I planted last year that I will figure out as it gets bigger- tho I believe it to be either red leaf perilla, or spicy globe basil-hopefully the spicy globe one since it was so fragrant last year and fed the bees well...Thank you!
Oh, Queen Annes lace I recognize, we call it white top winter weed, nasty smell.
Right now I've got what appears to be wild carrots popping all over outside and that made me think of it. But, I've also have a few volunteer dill sprout also so you may well be on the right track.
we get the wild false carrot, and i destroy methodically, and I may plant me some carrots this year, this plant is really fine and fragile, I wonder why there was only one volunteer... chuckle, that I found anyway so far. Later
It does look like dill, but dill doesn't have those flower heads like I see there.
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I wonder why there was only one volunteer... chuckle, that I found anyway so far. Later
Dill doesn't volunteer but rather self sows. I bet a little seed from the fern dill you bought and survived. Because it's from seed (sexual) and not a volunteer (asexual) it may have some slight differences from the parent plant you bought at the store.
My error-anything that volunteers is self seeding here, and the flowers are tiny, am watching it, it is abt a foot high now, we had planted dill, mustard, fennels in this area, but there was also parsley here, and parsley and fennels died out on us last year
I read that & laughed because anything that survives my soil and drought conditions would be called a volunteer by me. LOL
If I might add a thought... if it is dill it would not be in bloom this early as you are not that much farther south than I am and I found dill sprouts about 6 weeks ago. It it not near blooming.
I am in a microclimate area here, plus a band of uncleaned woods on the north, the bronze mustard, this dill, ummm, and some other plants were actually found just outside of the herb bed where the seeds fall, but I had improved the dirt , so-protected and we got no winter my dau tells me, I was home a month ago and spotted them, moved them over to the bed and they all kept growin-plus I did a very heavy hit with a fertilizer on my green onions/chives/ asparagus/german thyme/pansies, I was afraid I had burned em, but they didnt, and crowding them seems to provide a protection as well. I am still watching the plant-basically because like was mentioned- the tiny flowers just starting don't remind me of dill either, just like the taste is confusing me. OK? Fertilizer? Ummm the one I get at Lowes with blue cap- MG's Shake n Feed with moisture control, and I remember I fertilized with abt 5/6 caps in a 4'x4' area on established plants. Heavy.
I too have seen my cilantro look like that when it bolts.
If it is Cilantro, you will definitely know it by the aroma!
Not cilantro, dau doesnt like it, wouldn't use it,so it isnt here, it is fern leaf dill, by the way, its older now and the smell is not so mild, definitely fern leaf dill, chuckl