Random plant growing in my garden...

[Hanalei]

I have no idea what this is. It's a pretty good size - probably 14 to 18 inches tall now. At first we thought it might be a potato plant, but after looking them up online, it looks nothing like one. It's growing in the one of the beds of my garden (we did dump food scraps/compost in there over the winter, so it's pretty likely that it's a vegetable or fruit.) Any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's not a lettuce of any kind, but other than that, I don't know.

 

[Smart Red]

If it is not a weed then I've been pulling out a lot of good food. It looks like a weed with a long tap root that I find around here. IMHO

 

[Hanalei]

Well, I don't know for sure that it's not a weed, obviously, but there's a ton of plants growing in there (mostly melons) from scraps that we dumped, so it certainly could be a plant, and it could be a weed. We do get a lot growing from the scraps, though - last year we had little avocado trees, honeydews, and tomato plants that grew from the compost.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

got them in abundance over here too. i was thinking it was some sort of horseradish but it isn't-roots don't seem to get that big to use.

 

[Carol Dee]

I thought it looked like horseradish, too.

 

[seedcorn]

Not a weed expert but very common here. Nasty weed.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Is that maybe dock?

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

that's it! curly dock! thanks!

 

[Hanalei]

Curly dock... yeah, that certainly looks like it. There's no flowers on it right now. Can you use it for anything?

 

[catjac1975]

Weed!!! Get rid of it fast before it goes to seed and you have a hundred of them.