I think that is the same weed that is growing in our extended garden that we usually eradicate by pulling the roots when they are young. When fully grown, the small branches are tough so we need a cutter or a bolo to chop it. They have no use for us except for the goats. However, it can be a good decoration for the garden if you would care to give it a regular trimming. The shape of the small leaves are nice to look at. Unfortunately, we don't have a name for it.
Okay, next question. Although I don't think this plant looks like a weed, it's not something that we planted, at least not here, growing among our onions. It may be a plant that the squirrels relocated because, in return for food throughout the year, our squirrels have offered their landscaping and garden planning services, and often decide that a bulb plant might look better in a location other than where we planted it. A couple of roses turned up amongst our beans last year, but its in their nature for wild roses to move around. That's awfully kind of them but I do wish they'd consult with us first. Anyhow, this doesn't look like a weed but I know we didn't plant it among the onions. The leaves are velvety and the stems are reddish in color. So far, it hasn't flowered and we didn't plant any non-vegetables that wouldn't flower.
This is the same plant that I asked about last year. It survived the winter and was still green when the snow melted away from it. Now that it has grown, I can see that it's a vine. The leaves and stems are velvety, I think that's the term - fuzzy. It just showed up in our garden last year. I let it live, so it has gotten bigger this year.
I have been puzzling about this strange vine, and searched for any description that I thought might bring up a picture of it. The closest picture I found was this bit of vine. If this is it, you have some kind of a hardy kiwi. Maybe one of your neighbors has one and the squirrels or birds ate some of the fruit ? Otherwise, it is not apt to just sprout up because they are certainly not native. If it is a kiwi, it might grow for a few years before you see anything on it, similar to a grape vine. Please keep us updated with pictures as it grows !
Yeah, I have been ripping the poison ivy out of the ground for a few years now but it's hard to eradicate. Fortunately, I don't react to poison ivy so I can putt it up with my hands. No, it doesn't look like that.
Most of the plants that we eat, we recognize when we see them, and know what they are used for. However, there are a lot of plants that we see, and which have a good use, but we do not know to relate the plant to what we use it for. Other times, we know the use of a plant product, but we do not know which plant the item comes from, or at least might not be able to recognize the plant if we see it growing somewhere. I thought it would be interesting for us all to list a plant, and then let everyone determine what the name of the plant is, and what we use it for. I will start out with this common plant. It grows almost every where, at least in the United States, so we have most likely seen it , possibly in our own back yard, and the product that is made from this plant is also very familiar.
This plant comes with the round leaves, or with narrow leaves. Here is a picture that I found of the narrow leaf variety, and it gives you a better size comparison with someone’s fingers, and with common clover.
I don't know the name of it but I think I have some of it growing in my yard. We keep it mowed so it doesn't seed out. Is it edible?
Yes, very nutritious, and also has been grown for medicinal purposes, which might be how we even got it here in the United States in the first place, similar to how dandelion seeds were brought over to grow them as medicine. This plant is called plantain, and is part of the plantago family. The main commercial use of it is to harvest the seeds and husks, which we call psyllium, and this is what Metamucil is made from.