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Sun, Oct 14, 12 at 15:19
| they grew very well this past extremely dry summer while the grass seed did not do as well, someone said they resemble turnip plants, the leaves have a purplish tinge, I haven't noticed a bloom. Thanks for any help. |
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- Posted by michiganpete 5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 12 at 2:13
| That's exactly what it looks like, turnip greens; is there any sign of a "turnip" bulb? Compare to the pix located here: http://wildpicnic.blogspot.com/2009/09/wild-turnip-brassica-rapa-ssp.h tml |
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| Certainly a Brassica of some description. Is it located in arable land? You sometimes get weeds like this in fields that have formerly grown Canola. |
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| Thank you both for the replies, this soil is what I would think is of poor quality alongside a hill that was bulldozed to improve a personal driveway facing east, both the newly exposed earth and the fill scraped off the surface used for fill below the driveway grew these plants, I immediately spread some "highway mix" seed to grow on the new surfaces but the dry summer seemed to allow these things to grow best, I believe these blew in and not part of the mix. There are so far no blooms and no bulb but sort of a carrot looking root difficult to pull out which I don't have a picture of. |
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| Maybe rutbaga? The leaves look too smooth for turnip to me. Was it farmland before the houses were there? Scraping the soil could bring old seed to the surface. |
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| I suppose it could be rutbaga, this land was used for farming many years back and I'm not sure what was grown there however a neighbor about one half mile away had some excavating done for his new house and the same type of plants have grown there too, I was thinking someone else might have had these growing too under similar circumstances and know just what they are, I hope by next summer we receive more moisture so grass and wildflowers can grow. |
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