SC - Pickin' Poke

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:59:25 -0500 (EST) you wrote:

> You can come over to my house and pick the pokeweed any time-- at least until 
I get sick
> of trying to kill it off by hauking it up and give in to non-organic controls. 

Where do you live?  Probably not close enough to make it worthwhile.  I usually 
run up to Grandma's farm and tramp the fencelines and check the woodpiles. I 
usually drown a worm or two at the same time.

The only way I've seen poke killed is by kindness.  Cultivate around the plant 
and give it lots of fertilizer.  Make sure you trim it often and pull or cut the 
seed pods off before they ripen.  It's my understanding the seeds have to be 
through a bird's digestive tract before they will germinate, so you have an idea 
of how poke is spread. (grin) 

One season I had a lot of leafy greens growing in my garden, Swiss Chard, 
Spinach, Beet and Turnip greens, and mustard.  I mixed garden greens with wild 
greens, added bacon, onion, garlic and vinegar.  It was wonderful, and I really 
don't like cooked greens.

Liadan