What's this?

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Apparently it's delicious, DH tried some.

[traviata]

I can't quite see it. Coriander perhaps? (but surely it would be too early for it to be growing outside in the UK?)

can you do a leaf photo close up?

[BathshebaDarkstone]

It's not coriander. I'll take one later.

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Here you go. It's bloody cold out there!

[Theworldisfullofidiots]

Dill?

[bookbook]

could be carrot leaves? dill is more feathery..

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Doesn't look like dill. Carrots would be weird. I must ask him where it came from!

[shovetheholly]

Could it be artemesia of some kind?

[BathshebaDarkstone]

It just appeared, so I don't think it can be carrots!

I'll ask him about artemesia later, he's asleep and I'm going to pick up the DC.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

[BathshebaDarkstone]

He's going to look up artemesia.

[JeffreySadsacIsUnwell]

If I didn't know what a random plant that had just appeared in my garden was, I don't think I'd try to find out by eating it!! :shock:

If it's artemisia, he's either very lucky and got the tarragon variety, or he's unlucky and got one of the many poisonous varieties (wormwood, absinthe artemisia, etc)... Has he been hallucinating much since?

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Not as far as I can tell! That's why he tasted it and not me!

[EBearhug]

I agree it''s more like carrot than dill. Could be chervil? Or possibly not chervil, because it's very late and I can't quite think. Anyway, there are lots of herbs in the apiaceae family (umbelliferae as was, which is a much better name ), and I think it's one of them. A good herbal should help you identify it.

Hemlock and water dropwort are also in that family and deadly poisonous, so it's obviously not those, but I am not sure it's wise to eat unidentified plants, just in case. It's not all parsley and carrot and dill...

[BathshebaDarkstone]

We know what hemlock and water dropwort look like, thank goodness!

I agree, which is why I didn't taste it. I can't tell a 62yo what to do though!

[ChuckDaffodils]

Is there just one? Or many? If many, I'd pull up one and see what the root is/smells like. Definitely looks like a stray carrot seed has germinated to me.

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Thanks Chuck, I'll suggest pulling one up when he comes home.

[BathshebaDarkstone]

Having watched Jamie at Home, it's chervil. It might have been in the Shake and Rake he used. EBearhug!

Mystery solved!

[EBearhug]

Yay! A gold star! I have achieved something thus week!

[BathshebaDarkstone]