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Posted by katy_warren North Carolina (My Page) on

Sat, May 10, 14 at 10:54

Help! I planted my small bed of shade veggies and before I could put my top layer of vegetable soil on, it rained badly and my seeds washed all around. Now I have hardly any idea what the seedlings are and these ones pictured are all over. But I don't know what it is! I want to make sure I didn't somehow get a weed in there!

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Posted by sunnibel7 Md 7 (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 11:08

I think those might all be weeds- I see a lambs quarters for sure, a handful of some sort of annual grass (looks a little like corn), and one larger grassy thing that I would guess is a nutsedge maybe? Sorry.

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Posted by princessgrace79 8 PNW (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 11:45

I had similar plants grow - do you have a bird feeder? Mine was from bird seed.

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Posted by ltilton 5 (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 13:55

Looks like crabgrass.

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Posted by seysonn 7b WA/HZ 1 (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 14:10

some kind of grass.

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Posted by donnabaskets 7b-8 MS (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 15:11

Definitely the tallest one is nut grass. A very bad weed to have. Dig straight down at least 6 inches and try to get the entire plant. It makes a thread thin dark brown root that goes down and has a "nut" on it. It also puts out white runners from the base of the leaves. Try really hard to get it all. It spreads like wildfire.

NEVER put them in your compost pile! I always throw them on the ground and crush the nuts with my foot. Then put them in the garbage.

The nuts will stay dormant in the soil for years and then return when conditions are right (wet). They can be conquered, but it takes dogged persistence.

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Posted by wayne_5 6a.IN (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 17:39

If it's not nut grass, then it likely is crabgrass.

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Posted by ltilton 5 (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 20:03

I think it's both

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Posted by elisa_Z5 none (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 21:48

Yup. All weeds.
But at least you can eat the lambs quarters.

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Posted by wayne_5 6a.IN (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 21:58

Yep, Lambsquarter, crabgrass, and nut sedge.

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Posted by AiliDeSpain 6a - Utah (My Page) on
Sat, May 10, 14 at 23:43

Weeds. Soon you will be able to positively identify a weed vs. A seedling :)

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Posted by ceth_k 11 (My Page) on
Sun, May 11, 14 at 0:27

I think they look like corn. Did you plant any corn?

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Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on
Sun, May 11, 14 at 0:33

Lamb's quarters (edible, but don't let it go to seed!), nut sedge (Very Bad News), and definitely crabgrass (don't let it go to seed either!).

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Posted by theforgottenone1013 5b/6a MI (My Page) on
Sun, May 11, 14 at 11:18

The "nuts" from nutsedge are edible if you're into that sort of thing.

Rodney

Here is a link that might be useful: Nutsedge: The Edible Garden Foe

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