I've been taking pics of seedlings in our mutual aid garden and labeling them in our signal chat so that folks know what we might want to keep versus what's okay to weed out. Thought it might also make a short but useful thread.

First up, marigolds. I can never tell whether a marigold seedling is one of the ginormous ones or petite, but it's always identifiable as some kind of marigold once it's got its first true leaves (as opposed to cotyledon leaves).

#garden #gardening #bloomscrolling

@crystalvisits this is a great resource!

This one about marigold made me laugh because, in full #chaosGardening spirit, I once planted chervil exactly on top of where I had already planted marigold (but forgotten). I had never seen a chervil plant, so when the marigold sprouted I thought it was the chervil. I knew there was something wrong with that "chervil", but I didn't figured it out until the first flower came up 😅

@marsiposa lol, amazing. I've never grown chervil but I just looked at a pic and would totally make the same mistake!