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[ronott1]

actually, looking closer (and thinking about something that "just pops up" in the garden), could it be potatoes? if you google "potato plant berry" & look at the images, they look a lot like your plant there...

Solanum Nigrum grows as a weed in California so could potentially pop up anywhere.
The berries just seem too close together and too small to be a potato berry to me. The leaves seem right for the variety of nightshade I have seen growing as a weed here in Sonoma County.
The flower shown in the close up pic looks very much like these. Although I know most nightshades have flowers that are very similar (including potatoes and tomatoes)
http://web.ewu.edu/ewflora/Solanaceae/Solanum nigrum.html

Potatoes, tomatoes and nightshade--Leaves are bad for chickens. Chickens can eat tomatoes but not the leaves. Like wise with potatoes, except for green skin--too much Selenium. We are not supposed to eat green skin either.

Jason will pop in after work and let us know what he thinks.

 

[liz9910]

I'm pretty sure the storm missed Modesto completely, not surprised though lol

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: That storm was amazing! It moved westward over my property. The flashes lit up the yard, making all the Cayugas visible in short bursts of bright light. There is evidence of some rain having fallen... Although I was up quite late waiting for it, I never saw it rain. The dogs were agitated, and the younger birds in the house were nervous.

Out in the coop, Carl crowed after particularly loud booms. I counted seconds between flashes and booms, proving to myself the strikes were acrually miles and miles away.
That's because it was at my house, it was on top of me. I had my eye out for strikes and sniffing the air for signs of smoke.

 

[chiqita]

I'm jealous of your all thunderstorms! I miss that so much...

Sydney has the best weather in the world nothing else holds up.

 

[lizanne]

Ok, so I got some better pictures. When it started growing I thought it might be a pepper plant, or a tomatillo so I let it grow, I really hope it isn't poisonous, because I threw some of the plant to the chickens this morning.

This is a big as the berries get.




This is the stem of the plant. It split from the main stem, so it's growing along the ground.

 

[Shark Akhrrana]

In the Summer, storms have to be very powerful to bring rain into the Valley. Thunderstorms can follow the Sierras up the range so rain there is more common.

In June it took an Atmospheric River to give us .2 inches of rain.

Yeah that's true. That's what we get for being in the valley XD

 

[ronott1]

Ok, so I got some better pictures. When it started growing I thought it might be a pepper plant, or a tomatillo so I let it grow, I really hope it isn't poisonous, because I threw some of the plant to the chickens this morning.

This is a big as the berries get.




This is the stem of the plant. It split from the main stem, so it's growing along the ground.

I would not worry about it. Mine have eaten tomato leaves a bit and they did not get sick. I would not let them have any more though.

Do you have Purslane there? That is a very healthy "weed". It is edible and good for us too. http://web.extension.illinois.edu/cfiv/homeowners/030726.html

 

[lizanne]

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I just looked it up. I do have a bunch of it growing. So that's good to feed to the chickens?

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ronott1

I would not worry about it. Mine have eaten tomato leaves a bit and they did not get sick. I would not let them have any more though.

Do you have Purslane there? That is a very healthy "weed". It is edible and good for us too. http://web.extension.illinois.edu/cfiv/homeowners/030726.html

I just looked it up. I do have a bunch of it growing. So that's good to feed to the chickens?

Yes!

My Chickens go crazy for it and it has a lot of Omega 3 and good stuff in it.

 

[liz9910]

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That weed (purslane) grows like crazy in my yard! I'll have to see if the chickens will eat it.