Every year I plant carrot seeds in my old, rusty wheelbarrow. And every year I have a wonderful display of feathery carrot tops, and delicious carrots which we eat from about September until Christmas, and beyond.
Until this year.
I sowed my seeds, as usual, but when they started to shoot they didn't look like carrots. As they got bigger I knew that they definitely were not carrots. I would have pulled them all up, but it was a bit late to start again. A friend suggested that they might be radishes, so I decided to let fate take its course.
Well, they're not radishes either! They are chickweed!!!
I can't imagine what happened at the seed company which packaged and sold these seeds. And it's not just an odd clump of chickweed - which I know can pop up anywhere. Every plant in my wheelbarrow is chickweed, and they all came up together, uniformly - with not a carrot in sight!
I can't remember the seed company now, or I would write and complain!
Can you eat chickweed? (I know birds do!) And will it last so that we can have some for Christmas dinner? 
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Just a bit puzzled - chickweed doesn't look anything like the feathery carrot tops.
Make the best of it though. 
www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-622/chickweed
Looks like you'll never be troubled with constipation or scurvy !!
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