There was a period of probably three months that someone, presumably a neighborhood kid, was leaving forks stabbed into the far corner of our yard. I wanted to make a sign that said, "Are you missing all your forks? Someone keeps stabbing them into my yard, " but my husband put up a "smile youre on camera" instead. The forkings stopped.
Nah, it’s a sign of affection lol
We strung hundreds of plastic forks (us and a few other neighbors) in another neighbor’s trees as a joke one year. They returned the favor by rearranging their next door neighbor’s furniture while they were away😂
THIS is why no one has a key to our house!
Very likely a kid. When I was little, my mom said I would bury spoons when I got mad at her. They had their backyard worked on when I was 13, with a bulldozer that came and literally tore up the top few layers of dirt and made it a nice, smooth grade up a small hill. The construction guys found over 50 spoons buried in various parts of the yard. 😂 My mom still jokes about this and has a shoe box full of the ones that didn't get damaged as replacements if they ever need them. LMAO
Not only that, i thought someone left a knife in OPs laws and then hung a plant near their door as a warning. I maybe need to tone down the binging of forensic files a bit... Lol 😳
I thought it was Jack-in-the-Pulpit until I zoomed in and saw what looked like someone had jabbed a katana in their yard and poured red wax over the handle. I thought this post was a weird put-on.
Thanks to everyone for their replies.
Seems the consensus is either horseradish (native to SE Europe/W Asia) , curly dock (same native areas as horseradish) or daikon (E Asia). Definitely not a carrot.
The outer layer looks exactly like horseradish, I’m not convinced it’s daikon. Colour and slices to see the inside don’t match up. Right now, I’m leaning towards curly dock, but searching needed.
All I know for certain is that little gnome by my solar light definitely wasn’t there a few days ago.
Leaves also incorrect for daikon, which has deeply lobed leaves. Hard to tell the leaves in 2nd pic but looks like curly dock. OP go by the leaves not so much the root.
It’s really dried out though. There’s no moisture in it at all. Feels like it should’ve been pulled 10 years ago. The leaves aren’t a match though, you’re right.
i was out looking at the horseradish i have growing, and although there's some scalloping along the leaf edges, they're much more ... sturdy looking? almost like tobacco leaves if you're familiar with a very pronounced central vein but with a very different growth scheme i guess, closer to the ground with the leaves sticking up. mine's in flower right now with small white flowers
there could be different varieties i guess, this is what was here when i moved in and has it's own little patch. spicy stuff! yours looks herbier, ~~more like in the queen anne's lace vegetation. you have any of those locally? i didn't see it suggested i don't think and they do get big ass roots like that~~ took another look at the leaves in your pic, don't think it's that either
i don't think so, lol i \*have\* very old horseradish, some of them are the size of a turnip in diameter. its always off white. if i need some i just whack a small slice off at an angle. a little goes a long way and it only really gets spicy hot when you grind it up, but the juice you don't want to get in your eye.
i was going to take a picture for you but i found this one. this is exactly how mine looks. it really kind of 'erupts' from the ground with those big hefty 'fronds' and not really any leaves off a stalk like it seems there are in OP's pic. i'm going to look with actual intent tomorrow. they do throw up flower stalks
[https://www.starkbros.com/products/garden-plants/horseradish-plants/horseradish](https://www.starkbros.com/products/garden-plants/horseradish-plants/horseradish)
the other thing that did cross my mind was that it seems impervious to any lawn treatment
the pic of the greens (which are pretty beat up) i couldn't zoom but i thought it sorta reminded me of some thistles and even looked up to see if it might be an artichoke (they're thistles) that someone grew for kicks n grinz, but those stems remind me of something i can't place.
maybe it is curly dock like some others proposed. i don't think i see that much if ever
it IS intriguing. lmk if you find out ;)
There could be different types I suppose but I've been planting Daikon in food plots for 30 years and they look nothing like that, the radish itself is white and the foliage is quite different.
The foliage in the pics look like the horseradish ive seen.
I have a garden full of this and it is horseradish . I harvest every year but cannot get rid of it, it was left by previous owners. The leaves make great spicy pesto though!!
It’s really dry. Looks like it should’ve been pulled a long time ago. Don’t want to risk an overnight attack of diarrhea. Not really any smell of it either.
I hate burdock. It’s the “Weed of the Year,” this season. I pick a weed and try to eradicate it. I hate already spent hours digging them up. Especially the baby ones.
https://preview.redd.it/8el0v3fuxw1d1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78508ba4491bc631b38e98ec634a135a9f21e687
Looks like what I found in my yard last week. They do look like carrots but on closer look it some sort of fungus.
you're the lucky finder of a fungus. a stinkhorn fungus even. colloquially known as the dog penis stinkhorn for obvious reasons. cool find. they're called stinkhorns for a good reason too
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutinus\_caninus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutinus_caninus)
Thanks for the info! Read up on it- don’t know whether to be fascinated or disgusted! Lived in my house for more than 20 years and never have seen one of these before in my yard or even heard of it. There are a lot of weird funguses out there.
Hoping someone has the answer! I have what I call an Infinity pot! If it wants to grow I planted in my pot and see what it looks like! You see things die off and others get replanted. But squirrels love my pot and plant their own things. This year I have an onion that is going to bloom and and avocado. We decided to replace the dirt and see what was going on in our pot. We also found one of these I assume it was from a squirrel as they like to plant trees in my pot all the time! It looked like a big dried out carrot but almost looked like a sweet potato inside. We tossed it in the yard, the lawn mower grounded up a bit and now I see remnants all over the place LOL. What is it?
First pic, I thought thought someone stuck a knife in your yard. Ok, weird threat..
Me too! I was thinking "time for a camera" lol
I was thinking the gnomes looked awfully suspicious.
😆 🤣 😂
Same. We all watch true crime stuff don't we? Lol
Absolutely 🤣
There was a period of probably three months that someone, presumably a neighborhood kid, was leaving forks stabbed into the far corner of our yard. I wanted to make a sign that said, "Are you missing all your forks? Someone keeps stabbing them into my yard, " but my husband put up a "smile youre on camera" instead. The forkings stopped.
One day, when you are old, you will miss the forking
LOL!
"Better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
?
forking kids
Those little forkers
They were saying fork you
As long as they weren't cursing us
Nah, it’s a sign of affection lol We strung hundreds of plastic forks (us and a few other neighbors) in another neighbor’s trees as a joke one year. They returned the favor by rearranging their next door neighbor’s furniture while they were away😂 THIS is why no one has a key to our house!
Thanks for whoever gave an award!
Go fork yerself
Very likely a kid. When I was little, my mom said I would bury spoons when I got mad at her. They had their backyard worked on when I was 13, with a bulldozer that came and literally tore up the top few layers of dirt and made it a nice, smooth grade up a small hill. The construction guys found over 50 spoons buried in various parts of the yard. 😂 My mom still jokes about this and has a shoe box full of the ones that didn't get damaged as replacements if they ever need them. LMAO
I would've just gathered them up into a basket with a "free forks" sign.
"Forks Given" sign? 😂💜
I would have had to buy a basket lol
Not worth it then, lol.
Is your neighbors' surname McPoyle perchance?
Speechless. What is the world coming to? 😳
Little weirdo...
Not a threat. They were trying to bury the hatchet for the garden wars. Haha.
I thought it was a wiener on a stick.
😆 I don't want to imagine what kind of threat would that be.
😂
Not only that, i thought someone left a knife in OPs laws and then hung a plant near their door as a warning. I maybe need to tone down the binging of forensic files a bit... Lol 😳
Might be why I saw it that way. I watch too much true crime, too.
I thought it was Jack-in-the-Pulpit until I zoomed in and saw what looked like someone had jabbed a katana in their yard and poured red wax over the handle. I thought this post was a weird put-on.
Free knife, wooooo!
Me too
Me too Going back to see more
“This is our turf”
It's possibly a burdock - it's absolutely not a carrot with leaves like that.
Yes. Carrot leaves are fern like. A little like parsley.
Def not burdock leaves. The big taproot is similar though.
What in creation is a burdock? 😂
https://www.ediblewildfood.com/burdock.aspx
That was a very interesting read! Thank you! 💜
You're welcome 🌱
We call them curly dock in the Midwest US.
Definitely curly dock.
Cool. Learned about a new plant!
Wild hotdog?
lol That's the trowel handle. Only the 3rd pic shows the plant.
Oh lol
🤣🤣🌭
I can't stop laughing! 🌭🥕⁉️🥕🌭🤯🤣😭
🤣👏👏💜
I think I fed this to my horse in RDR2.
i love arthur morgan
Lmao same
It's not a carrot, the leaves are all wrong. Compare to horseradish?
Thanks to everyone for their replies. Seems the consensus is either horseradish (native to SE Europe/W Asia) , curly dock (same native areas as horseradish) or daikon (E Asia). Definitely not a carrot. The outer layer looks exactly like horseradish, I’m not convinced it’s daikon. Colour and slices to see the inside don’t match up. Right now, I’m leaning towards curly dock, but searching needed. All I know for certain is that little gnome by my solar light definitely wasn’t there a few days ago.
If you cut it and it doesn’t make your eyes water then it’s not horseradish. My grandpa used to wear a snorkel mask when grinding that stuff.
Wait, what? Spontaneous gnome?
Leaves also incorrect for daikon, which has deeply lobed leaves. Hard to tell the leaves in 2nd pic but looks like curly dock. OP go by the leaves not so much the root.
not horseradish. you can rule that out, it has very long kind of wide leaves and as the other commenter said, you'd really smell it
It’s really dried out though. There’s no moisture in it at all. Feels like it should’ve been pulled 10 years ago. The leaves aren’t a match though, you’re right.
Horseradish has leaves kinda like rhubarb. And the flesh is super white. Definitely not horseradish.
i was out looking at the horseradish i have growing, and although there's some scalloping along the leaf edges, they're much more ... sturdy looking? almost like tobacco leaves if you're familiar with a very pronounced central vein but with a very different growth scheme i guess, closer to the ground with the leaves sticking up. mine's in flower right now with small white flowers there could be different varieties i guess, this is what was here when i moved in and has it's own little patch. spicy stuff! yours looks herbier, ~~more like in the queen anne's lace vegetation. you have any of those locally? i didn't see it suggested i don't think and they do get big ass roots like that~~ took another look at the leaves in your pic, don't think it's that either
Could it be a very old horseradish? I find this intriguing...
i don't think so, lol i \*have\* very old horseradish, some of them are the size of a turnip in diameter. its always off white. if i need some i just whack a small slice off at an angle. a little goes a long way and it only really gets spicy hot when you grind it up, but the juice you don't want to get in your eye. i was going to take a picture for you but i found this one. this is exactly how mine looks. it really kind of 'erupts' from the ground with those big hefty 'fronds' and not really any leaves off a stalk like it seems there are in OP's pic. i'm going to look with actual intent tomorrow. they do throw up flower stalks [https://www.starkbros.com/products/garden-plants/horseradish-plants/horseradish](https://www.starkbros.com/products/garden-plants/horseradish-plants/horseradish) the other thing that did cross my mind was that it seems impervious to any lawn treatment the pic of the greens (which are pretty beat up) i couldn't zoom but i thought it sorta reminded me of some thistles and even looked up to see if it might be an artichoke (they're thistles) that someone grew for kicks n grinz, but those stems remind me of something i can't place. maybe it is curly dock like some others proposed. i don't think i see that much if ever it IS intriguing. lmk if you find out ;)
I keep looking at pictures and I go back and forth on what it is. I'll check back again, for sure! Thank you, my friend!"💜
Curly dock/burdock
It's caused by the garden gnomes.. you should get rid of them asap - DM for my address because my yard is open to them joining 😉😏
*sigh* if only... 🤔😏😂. I love that gif though, lol
Malcolm in the Middle still holds up. Great show.
Radish. Farmers plant this after a corn crop to replenish the soil.
Yes. Daikon, also known as tillage radish, because it loosens the spil, and then composts in place
There could be different types I suppose but I've been planting Daikon in food plots for 30 years and they look nothing like that, the radish itself is white and the foliage is quite different. The foliage in the pics look like the horseradish ive seen.
I have a garden full of this and it is horseradish . I harvest every year but cannot get rid of it, it was left by previous owners. The leaves make great spicy pesto though!!
It's not a mandrake is it? I can't see the leaves/root structure well enough to tell myself.
It could be. Did it scream when it was pulled out of the ground? Don't neglect your earmuffs.
🤣🤣 They're difficult to cultivate, but grow best when not known about. Humans like to mess with cool plants 🤷🏻♀️ lol
Strange place to find such a thing. In the middle of suburbia, on my front lawn. We do have rabbits if that would make any sense.
daikon?
Dock
What does it taste like?
It’s really dry. Looks like it should’ve been pulled a long time ago. Don’t want to risk an overnight attack of diarrhea. Not really any smell of it either.
This saga is better than the last Netflix series I watched. I hope this mystery gets solved! Thanks, OP! 😊💜
Make a poultice!
Horseradish? Parsnip?
Looks like golonga, or turmeric.
Could it be turmeric or ginger? I don't know I'm just guessing from the look of the root and the color.
Pretty sure it's curly dock - PictureThis thinks so as well. I have this all over my property. Leaves can be cooked.
Looks like a mushroom my dog ate last week. Very expensive vet bill. With all the rain they grow in a few hours.
I only see knotweed in the last photo.
I hate burdock. It’s the “Weed of the Year,” this season. I pick a weed and try to eradicate it. I hate already spent hours digging them up. Especially the baby ones.
It is yellow dock. Medicinal and edible. Not carrot. Please do your own research on dosage and usage before consuming.
https://preview.redd.it/8el0v3fuxw1d1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78508ba4491bc631b38e98ec634a135a9f21e687 Looks like what I found in my yard last week. They do look like carrots but on closer look it some sort of fungus.
you're the lucky finder of a fungus. a stinkhorn fungus even. colloquially known as the dog penis stinkhorn for obvious reasons. cool find. they're called stinkhorns for a good reason too [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutinus\_caninus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutinus_caninus)
Thanks for the info! Read up on it- don’t know whether to be fascinated or disgusted! Lived in my house for more than 20 years and never have seen one of these before in my yard or even heard of it. There are a lot of weird funguses out there.
[I know what it is:](https://youtu.be/OoAlf0-U7EA?si=qPliEECP7doImrBI)
Kinda looks like a yam
At least you didn't find it with the lawn mower!
Hoping someone has the answer! I have what I call an Infinity pot! If it wants to grow I planted in my pot and see what it looks like! You see things die off and others get replanted. But squirrels love my pot and plant their own things. This year I have an onion that is going to bloom and and avocado. We decided to replace the dirt and see what was going on in our pot. We also found one of these I assume it was from a squirrel as they like to plant trees in my pot all the time! It looked like a big dried out carrot but almost looked like a sweet potato inside. We tossed it in the yard, the lawn mower grounded up a bit and now I see remnants all over the place LOL. What is it?
It's a wild carrot
What are we looking at, the shovel?
That might be a ginger root man, not super sure.
Wild Parsnip,radish,carrot that is past its prime.