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Post by rowanberry on Oct 9, 2015 19:44:17 GMT
This came up back in early summer, and when it first sprouted I thought it might be corn... then as time went by I could see it wasn't. I decided to just let it grow, (there were two stalks of it, came up in two pots with some geraniums) and they grew to be about a metre tall until they bent over under the weight of the grain. I wanted to see if any of the birds would eat it, and a pigeon and a couple of sparrows stripped it clean one afternoon. I'm thinking it might be white millet? I can't think of what else it might be, and I do feed sprays of millets to the sparrows... they love it!    |
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Post by alf1951 on Oct 10, 2015 6:46:51 GMT
They look like rice plants to me although that does seem unlikely. We get a regular crop of barley growing thanks to the drift of seed when the farmer harvests his crop of winter barley every year but one wonders how viable rice seeds would get in with your geraniums:)
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Post by Eristic on Oct 10, 2015 13:03:19 GMT
Could it possibly be a variety of sorghum?
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Post by rowanberry on Oct 10, 2015 13:40:33 GMT
Could it possibly be a variety of sorghum? I googled that... sorghum sprays seem to be much larger, and more upright, so I don't think it was that. Rice is an interesting idea- I suppose anything is possible! My mixed birdseed contains red and white millet, (which is why that was my first though) and oats... have had oats sprout a few times. I guess I should have tried to save some of the seeds from it, so that I could have had a closer look. Oh, well- whatever it was, at least they enjoyed it and it didn't go to waste!  |
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