Over the last few weeks about five of these plants have appeared, in the middle of my backyard and I have no idea what they are.
They weren’t planted by me and from the positioning of them, I suspect they are some kind of seed which has been rejected by our fussy chickens. While chickens are supposed to eat up your food scraps, ours are a lot more discerning. With a whole garden to free range in and dig up they frequently casually reject all the treats and foods I assume they will love
At first, I thought they were sunflower seeds, although I found it hard to believe our greedy, sunflower seed loving birds would leave any of them free to sprout and grow. However, by the time the true leaves had come through I dismissed that idea.
And now I’m stumped.
I suspect it’s some kind of vegetable, as the chooks gobble up any grains and they rarely miss a skerrick of the food they love.
Any ideas?
Another garden pop-up is this plant, which is either a zucchini, pumpkin or possibly a watermelon? My money is on it being a pumpkin, after giving the chickens the seeds and flesh from the middle of several pumpkins, assuming they’d love the seeds. Which they didn’t.
While they may be fussy, the chickens are always excited about the possibility of food.
Meet Nellie who was convinced my mobile was something tasty and delicious if only I’d let her get to it.
