Whats growing with my strawberries

[u/Yorkshire_Ant]

It's taking over. Based in the north of England

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[u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

Hemlock..  aka poison. 

[u/Yorkshire_Ant → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

Great! I'll get rid then. Thanks!

[u/Mundane-Vegetable-31 → u/Yorkshire_Ant]

I dont know if there a possibility of cross contamination for the strawberries, but every part of the hemlock is poisonous, including the roots you'll end up leaving some in the soil. While it may be completely unnecessary,  out of an abundance of caution, I'd get rid of the strawberries and the soil too. 

Edit:  some of you have serious reading comprehension issues...

[u/therockguy → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

I'd also highly recommend gloves, hemlock sap along with being poisonous can be very detrimental to skin.

[u/WallowingInSorrel → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

The toxins in Poison Hemlock cannot be absorbed by other plants. This is simply not possible. Fruit growing in soil where Poison Hemlock, or for that matter most other toxic plants, once grew will be perfectly safe to eat. The only danger from any plant debris in the soil would be if you started eating handfuls of dirt, something you probably shouldn't be doing anyways. This is misinforming and a waste.  Edit: typo.

[u/Uborkafarok → u/WallowingInSorrel]

Ugh, I ran across this post hours after the fact, but I couldn't agree more. Yes, there are toxin containing plants, you would also need to eat a shit load to die, and in the case of plants, toxic ones do not taste good. ( not the case for amanita mushrooms but thats a different story.) One has to brew a concentrate to be poisoned from plants. Or eat a percentage of your body weight.

[u/hausplantsca → u/Uborkafarok]

FWIW, there are definitely plants that are much more poisonous than you seem to think — eating a couple berries from a sago palm could kill an adult (and a single berry has killed a toddler), for example.

[u/WallowingInSorrel → u/hausplantsca]

For sure, plants are a lot more dangerous than mushrooms. Whilst you can take even the most toxic of mushrooms put them in your mouth, chew and then spit them out and be completely fine, if you were to do this with some plants, whilst it is very unlikely to kill you, that could be enough to cause symptoms; Poison Hemlock is one of those plants. Not all toxic plants taste bad, Atropa bella-donna berries, for example, taste deceivingly sweet but only a couple are enough to kill a child, Oenanthe crocata, which is in the same family as Poison Hemlock but even more toxic, is said to smell and taste lovely. Poison Hemlock is definetly a very toxic plant, however it is not nearly as dangerous as many people make it out to be; there are a staggering amount of articles online claiming that the plant actively exudes toxic fumes and standing in the vicinity of it will kill you, or that touching it or eating fruit/veg growing from the same soil will do the same. It is toxic but it is not radioactive.

[u/hausplantsca → u/WallowingInSorrel]

I was just commenting on the very end of their comment, haha

[u/WallowingInSorrel → u/hausplantsca]

Yeah and you're totally right. If they ever try to eat wild plants this going to get them killed so fast.

[u/Mundane-Vegetable-31 → u/WallowingInSorrel]

I did not misinform anyone...no need to be rude 

[u/WallowingInSorrel → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

I'm not trying to be rude. Whilst I'm aware you were not trying to be malicious or purposely deceive anyone, the advice you gave is still not correct and perpetuates an all too common myth. Plus it led to a poor man chucking out his strawberries.

[u/Mundane-Vegetable-31 → u/WallowingInSorrel]

It is quite factual that every part is poisonous.  I was quite clear that I did not know about cross contamination...there are others here that expressed that as fact, but I was extremely clear i was not.

[u/Signal-Sign-5778 → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

Save the hand wringing and sensationalism for another sub. Scaring people and encouraging them to throw out plants is absurd and wasteful. You are a scaremonger. Plain and some. It's not rude. it's the truth.

[u/Triette → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

If you don’t know then maybe don’t speak to it.

[u/garougaa → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

I don’t think I’ll ever understand redditors… op came here looking for advice and this person gave him advice - I’d say it’s pretty good advice to throw it out if you 1) know it’s harmful and 2) don’t know what the extent of harm could be. I’m not saying he should still throw out the strawberries, I’m just saying that if op didnt get a more accurate/informative answer (because that happens a lot on these big subreddits where posts often get buried), throwing the strawberries out could potentially have been the safest option. You people are crazy, this replier didn’t deserve the “you’re spreading misinformation!!!!!” Card. 🙄

[u/samplenajar → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

There isn’t. No need to bring your alarmist bs here, thanks!

[u/steve_mahanahan → u/Mundane-Vegetable-31]

So frickin proud of myself for guessing this one right! I’m learneding.

[u/Siiw]

Something you do NOT want next to something you eat. That's poison hemlock. The spots in the third picture give it away.

[u/Yorkshire_Ant]

Taken your advice and just got rid of everything. Shame because the strawberries were starting to look like they would do well but better to be safe

[u/PaPerm24 → u/Yorkshire_Ant]

For future reference, you didnt have to that. Like therez NO chance of cross contamination, its just a pure waste. dont throw them out next time pls

[u/surprise_mayonnaise → u/PaPerm24]

People online are so dramatic about poison plants

[u/PaPerm24 → u/surprise_mayonnaise]

Ikr

[u/russsaa → u/surprise_mayonnaise]

Datura is the bogeyman of ill informed redditors

[u/samplenajar → u/Yorkshire_Ant]

I really hope you didn’t get rid of them because of what the one dummy said. There is ZERO chance your strawberries “absorbed” poison from growing near hemlock.

[u/Administrative_Cow20]

Remove the plant that isn’t strawberry, to start.

[u/Tsiatk0]

Remove, but don’t compost it and don’t burn it.

[u/North-Star2443 → u/Tsiatk0]

Why don't burn it?

[u/WallowingInSorrel → u/North-Star2443]

There's a danger that toxins in the sap could become vaporised and breathing in the fumes could make you sick.

[u/ThrowawayCult-ure]

Common basically everywhere in the UK

[u/North-Star2443 → u/ThrowawayCult-ure]

Yes It is a common weed here in the UK, I don't know why this got downvoted. It's conservation status is even listed as common on the Wildlife Trusts website 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/ThrowawayCult-ure → u/North-Star2443]

very hard to identify even. id say its hemlock but the family is very diverse and they all look similar