KnowYour Plants- Identifying Sprots From Weeds In Your Garden

When we sow vegetable seed in the bed directly, it's so easy and fast. But the problem is they grow in the same time with grass or weeds. It's hard to identify which one is our vegetable, which one is grass. And we need to do weeding at this time because we cannot let the grass grow too fast. They always grow faster than our vegetable because they are wild, they are local. So we need to do weeding. Many people don't like this step. They need to do the seedling in the tray. It will be easy. This is our lettuce. Lettuce is so tiny. At the beginning, we need to know how it looks different from weed. Like this one, the leaf is quite fat and round and in some kind of grass, quite long leaves. It's very important to recognize the first day that our lettuce sprouts so we can know which one is weed, which one is lettuce. Mainly the leaf is quite fat and round but the small leaf is weed. This is one day old dill. Dill leaves when they first sprout is so tiny, so small. So we need to recognize very well. If not, we cannot pull them out with misunderstanding. It looks long, skinny and small but dill looks similar to carrot. This is carrot. Carrot is a little bit bigger than dill. If we compare, we can see that it's a little bit bigger. So if we grow carrot and dill separately, it will be easy to recognize when they first sprout. But when they're big, it's quite different. It's easy to to know. But the carrot is a little bit thicker than dill. If we look closely, we can see the leaf is quite different. If we look very close or if we wait for another day, you can see the new shoot will come out between the two leaves. That one will look different from dill. And if we wait for two days, three days, you can see the carrot leaves come up very clear, very different from dill after that. And the next thing that's similar is cosmos. The flowers we call cosmos. This one is very similar. We need to wait for three days. We can see very different after that. This is cosmos. We can see at the beginning is the stem is longer and the bottom of stem is dark brown color. That's the difference. The baby cilantro or coriander is quite easy to identify in the first days. The leaves look quite big at the beginning. And then if it's hard to understand it, maybe wait for a few more days. We can see the real leaves come out. It will be easy to identify cilantro or coriander. They grow fast also after they sprout. And the group of mustard green. This group, there are many of them like bok choy, kale, all kinds of mustard green. Many vegetables in this group, they look very similar when they sprout. The first day when they sprout, it will be light green color. And the shape, it looks like two heart shapes attached together like this. And when we sow them, it took only two, three days, they will sprout. If the condition is good, like not too wet, not too dry, they will sprout in three days. And then it looks like this when they first sprout. And when they exposed to the sunlight, not very long, not many hours, they turn dark green very fast. And then they start to produce the third leaves very quick after that. This is the mustard green. We can eat the baby one like this. This is a very good taste if we eat this size. Don't let them grow bigger than this. Even this, you can eat them too. The next thing that we need to know when they sprout is shallot. Shallot, when they sprout, it looks very beautiful. We stick the head of shallot underground. Not very long, they will come up like this. The leaves of shallot is quite big. It's quite easy to identify. And then when they grow like this, only a few days, they grow fast after that. They have a lot of roots. When the roots go far, their leaves will grow tall too. This is the sprout of cucumber. It looks like a bean sprout. All kinds of melon and cucumber are very similar. And a few days later, they will have the third leaves like this. So if we recognize this, don't pull them out. It's our cucumber. And this is corn. Corn is like we wrap some green thing very tight and then it sticks up from the ground. It's light green color at the beginning. At the beginning, it's very white. But when they come up to the sunlight, they will turn green fast after that. This is the character of corn. Corn, they grow fast. And when they start to grow the first day, many crickets love them. Corn is quite different from grass. It's easy to know which one is grass, which one is corn, especially when it's older than three days. It looks very clear to understand it. And the next thing is beans. Most of beans, all kinds of beans are similar. It's easy to identify when they start to sprout because the shape of beans is still easy to recognize that. And when they first sprout, it will be light green color like this. This period of time, many crickets love it. They like to bite the stem and they eat a little bit and they eat another one. It causes a lot of damage for many people. But when they start to grow bigger than this, they are okay. There's no cricket eat them. But they will have problem with aphid easily after this period of time. And this is one day old pumpkin. Pumpkin, squash, or zucchini look very similar. They are the same family. The leaves and everything look the same. After two, three days, you can see the third leaves come up and then they grow fast after that. And all kinds of basil, all kinds of basil will look like this when they start to sprout. When we see something like this, don't think it's wheat. It's our basil. When we do gardening, we need to learn to recognize how the vegetables look like at the beginning so we will not make a mistake. We will not pull them out.