Doesn't look like lettuce to me?

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  1. maisymouse

    maisymouse Apprentice Gardener

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    Sorry, I can't see the photo :scratch:
     
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    Hi Maisy, would love to help but you need to post a photo.. :wink:
     
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    Hope the pictures are on here now. I thought i had attached. :hehe:
     
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    Hope the pictures are on here now. I thought i had attached. :hehe:
     
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    to me the middle one looks like it could be lettuce, are the leaves very soft?
    the other two look like weeds to me. Have the pots always been outside? If so it is possible that weeds have found their way in :(
     
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    Yeah the middle one does look like a lettuce should. It does have soft leaves and I'm pretty confident it is lettuce.
    They have been outside so there's a possibility that the two seeds did not germinate but weed seeds maybe dropped by birds?
    My hubby said the other two look like weeds.
    Thanks for your reply. :thmb:
     
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    It's possible other types of lettuce seed were in there? I used to grow some rocket lettuce and top one looks like it might be rocket lettuce? Possibly the bottom one too. I kept on wondering if they were weeds myself when they first started growing. :scratch:
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Maisy, you may have better luck if you plant a few seeds in one pot, and then prick out the resulting plants.

    Am I getting this right you actually planted three seeds, one in each pot:).

    I think no 1 and no 3 could be oil seed rape,(might not be) often comes from bird seed.
     
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