A few weeks ago I had several teeny seedlings from a variety of plants coming up in my little walk in greenhouse. Then it blew over (Picture me with a very sad face). I saved what I could but everything got mixed up. I’ve been looking after this one thinking it’s one of the lettuces from a mixed seed pack but now I’ve planted it out it and looked at it closely it’s definitely different to all the other lettuces.
Any chance it just happens to be the only lettuce of a particular variety that made it? Or have I been proudly nurturing a weed? I thought I’d done so well to save it as it was doing so much better than the others. I don’t think it’s any of the other things I planted as I’m pretty sure I know what they all look like and it’s not this.
Someone make my day/shatter my illusions and break my heart please?
by Fun-Chipmunk-2571
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This looks a bit like a bok choy seedling to me, any chance you planted that or a similar brassica?
It almost looks like cucurbit family of cotyledons (the first two leaves that sprout before the ‘true’ leaves) but the fact the next sets of leaves it’s growing look the same it probably isn’t that… not any usual lettuce I’m aware of but could be some other type of greens
Definitely looks like bok choy to me!
This is giving me bok choy vibes.
As my wife says “its probably a weed” lol
It looks like lettuce. Like exactly.
Picture This! Says it’s lettuce also.
Did you plant eggplant seeds? It looks like an eggplant to me.
Condolences on your greenhouse blowing over and losing plants and labels. I had the same exact thing happen this year!
From my years of gardening expertise and experience I would say in my personal opinion it looks like a plant of some kind but that’s only my opinion 🤷
I’d say bok choy
Snip a leaf and crush it up. You’ll know if it’s a brassica by smell and a lettuce would have that milky sap
I think bak or pak choy or tatsoi but w be nice in short time –
Can I ask you what that light stuff is on top of your soil? Mulch? Something easier to manage than hay?
Bok Choi — Chinese Winter Cabbage
Bok choy.