Have a plant growing which I thought was coriander (first time trying, but now I think it is just a weed). Found little larvae living inside the leaves. Are these good guys or bad? Found a lacey-winged thing on the bottom of a leaf but killed it beyond recognition.
The larvae...
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
Doesn't looks like any of the pictures of Dock that I could find. Wild or Curly Dock look more like horseradish to my eyes.
This plant has whitish coloration at the stem of new leaves. The leaves are totally flat. It has one main stem with new stem branching from the crothces of lower leaves. The flower heads are beginning to develop at the uppermost stem--which is why I need to know if it is a weed. It is about one foot tall.
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
I know it as sheep's dock or lamb dock!
Cheryl
the ones I have growing.
Kate
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i think those are miners or similar fly maggot
chenopodium sp, unless you seeded it, it's a "weed". i've seen it in disturbed soil in horse paddocks. (very disturbed soil!)
there are many sp of chenopodium
anyway, you can drag names from the list into google's bar such as
FYI, i'm near SF in CA
(album=white, due to the whitish colour of new leaves). since I see you have a few, it is edible as a potherb (cook the leaves as you would chard), very nutritious but not the tastiest green veg. If you let it go to seed, next year you will have enough lamb quarters to feed the whole family for the summer.
Thanks to all I yanked it the other day along with the leaf worms in it. Whatever bug it was it really liked that one plant. All the surrounding plants were untouched on the entire bakers rack of plants were untouched.
DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY,
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