SC - Pickin' Poke

[Jenne Heise]

> 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) 

Actually, it also spreads off the main root. *sigh* I chop down the ones in my yard early
and often, and dig up the roots. I'm unreasonably sensitive about having a plant with
poisonous berries in my yard.

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
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