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Title: any ideas?
Post by: muddpuppi on August 24, 2010, 06:28:01 PM

on what this may be...she had me dig it up and put it in the yard with no clue as to what it is....
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thanks

Craig

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: Shadetree Callers on August 24, 2010, 06:30:48 PM

Weeds

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: muddpuppi on August 24, 2010, 06:34:20 PM

thats what i was thinkin... *lol*

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: superstrutter on August 24, 2010, 06:35:34 PM

POKEBERRIE WEED, THOSE LITTLE BERRIES WILL BE LIKE PAINTBALLS AT SOME POINT!

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Post by: superstrutter on August 24, 2010, 06:36:25 PM

AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE CALLED UP HERE IN PA! *up*

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Post by: Porter on August 24, 2010, 06:37:36 PM

Definitely a weed around here...  berries all over the place...

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Post by: shad309 on August 24, 2010, 06:38:38 PM

Where I come from that's called Poke Salad. My Grandma had us walking around with garbage bags filling them with the leaves. She would pressure cook and can them. It tastes like mustard greens. I do not recommend trying to cook it unless you know what you are doing!!!
 It can be very TOXIC  :ghost: if not done right.

The berries can be used as a dye as well. The old timers & natives used it them that way as well.

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Post by: Zumer on August 24, 2010, 06:39:41 PM

Pookberrys is what I've always known it as.......

     Turkeys love em.... :o

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Post by: Gitzit69 on August 24, 2010, 06:42:43 PM

Here ya go:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: Shadetree Callers on August 24, 2010, 06:50:42 PM

Just make sure you pick that stuff in the spring if you want to eat it. Cut it while it is still short and it can be pretty tasty.

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: muddpuppi on August 24, 2010, 07:01:32 PM

thanks fellas...it took this to tell her it was a weed  *lol*

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Post by: SS Custom Calls on August 24, 2010, 07:03:58 PM

Them polk berries make a real purdy purple mess with kids.  *lol* *lol*

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Post by: West Augusta on August 24, 2010, 07:13:52 PM

You can eat it until it starts to turn purple, then it is poison.
Boil the green leaves, pour the water off, add fresh water then boil again. That's how we cooked it in the scouts.
Kind of like boiled spinach.

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Post by: GR8CALLS on August 24, 2010, 07:42:06 PM

Pokeberry...for sure. Any Bears in your area? They love them when they turn purple. Like Zumer said, turkeys do too. Plant a bunch where you hunt. Great feed in the Fall and the birds will do the rest...planting seeds all over the place!

Bill

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Post by: Bulldogmikey on August 24, 2010, 08:46:47 PM

Polk Salad Annie... Gators Got Your Granny....Chomp Chomp..

It is a pretty good green cooked when young.

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Post by: creekrocket on August 25, 2010, 04:55:08 AM

Find those babies at Stewart during bow season, and you'll have a nice stand.....deer love them

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Post by: M Sharpe on August 25, 2010, 06:33:37 AM

Chop that joker down Craig. Use to work with a guy from Tennessee that ate it. He then got to talking about it being toxic if not picked soon enough. Too much mustard greens, turnip greens and spinach to eat to worry about when poke salet is ready.
How is the call coming?
Mark

Title: Re: any ideas?
Post by: Dcoleinpa on August 25, 2010, 06:51:21 AM

lots of those by the river  ;D

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Post by: Strut-N on August 25, 2010, 07:21:51 AM

My Grandmother use to cook it like turnip greens but she added scrammbled eggs in it.....really