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Mis-identification of plants

Lucy-Lu_3
Lucy-Lu_3 Posts: 28 Forumite
I am not green fingered at all, but last year I planted 8 cherry pips hoping they will grow. I planted them in some random compost that I had and over the last few weeks green sprouts have appeared. I thought at first these must have been the cherries but now that they're getting bigger it's obvious that they are bramble bushes (unless there are thorns on cherry saplings!). So... I don't really want to replant the bramble bushes as I guess they're effectively weeds, am assuming I can't just compost, so do I just chuck?? I need to do something relatively quickly as I can tell they're growing by the day... any thoughts?

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  • ERICS_MUM
    ERICS_MUM Posts: 3,579 Forumite
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    I would definitely chuck them and quick before they take over your garden ! If you have a garden compost bin from the council (a wheelie bin that they collect) best to put it in there as they will compost it at a very high temp and kill the roots. Don't add them to your compost heap becasue they'll carry on growing and creep out into the flower beds.


    Linda xx
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    Don't worry, I had a lovely crop of lemon balm I had been coddling for weeks, as friend gave me it and I almost killed it, lost every leaf, so I nursed it back to health. When it had lots of leaves, I had a good look and it looked a bit odd, so I smelled it and got my nose stung, yes I had been cultivating the best greenest nettles in the garden..... and I have alot of nettles :D
    I would like to say this was at the start of my gardening career, but it was last week. :rotfl:
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Lucy-Lu_3
    Lucy-Lu_3 Posts: 28 Forumite
    Thank you... fortunately they're in a tub so won't spread too far, but I will get rid and quickly! I wonder if my cherry pips will ever grow???
  • valk_scot
    valk_scot Posts: 5,290 Forumite
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    Don't worry, I had a lovely crop of lemon balm I had been coddling for weeks, as friend gave me it and I almost killed it, lost every leaf, so I nursed it back to health. When it had lots of leaves, I had a good look and it looked a bit odd, so I smelled it and got my nose stung, yes I had been cultivating the best greenest nettles in the garden..... and I have alot of nettles :D
    I would like to say this was at the start of my gardening career, but it was last week. :rotfl:

    Trust me, you've had a narrow escape where the lemon balm is concerned. I was given one small plant of it three years ago, popped it in the herb bed on the allotment, it flowered, seeded...and now I've got a full scale Invasion of the Lemon Balm on my hands. I've pulled up literally hundreds of the little blighters but they still keep coming. I even found one in the garden the other day and given that I haven't brought any plants or soil products home from the allotment for a year or so....how the heck did it get here?
    Val.
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