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Author Garden: BIG weeds.. Meg Garden Pro! Member # 2702 posted                       This is really kinda tall.. probably 4'. What is it? Top of one of them- Meg * * * * I reject your reality, and substitue my own! My favorite digital camera photos that I took. My family, garden, and a bunch of misc. photos! Plants: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 69.160.107.49 mike57 Super Gardener Member # 4181 posted                       HI MEG it looks like poke salad to me it should put on berry's but do not eat them there poison.some folks eat the the plant but it has to boiled and drained and boiled and drained quite a few times.but i have never tried it.it has toxins in it.but some of the older folks around here in Alabama do eat the plant like greens.but they don't eat them very many times a year.heres a link on how to prepare it to eat. http://www.chitterlings.com/blog/archives/2005/05/poke_salad.html your friend in gardening.mike57 * * * * No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent. Plants: 722 | From: alabama | Registered: Nov 2004  |  Seeded: 216.170.146.168 Vada Great Gardener Member # 5773 posted                       I was going to say the same thing. Looks like poke salad to me too. * * * * Vada in MS Mommy to Tommy, Edward, Jarod and baby on the way! Plants: 40 | From: Lucedale, MS | Registered: Jun 2005  |  Seeded: 68.222.113.3 LMT Dream Gardener Member # 5633 posted                       I found this link that says bluebirds love the fruits of the plant and loads of other interesting/useful bits. * * * * Currently listening to: Vince Guaraldi Trio -- A Charlie Brown Christmas. Adult and contemporary but evocative of youth and innocence, a must own CD. Plants: 191 | From: S/W Michigan | Registered: Jun 2005  |  Seeded: 64.136.26.235 RugbyHukr Garden Pro! Member # 5274 posted                       If you decide to eat it, you must pick young shoots that have not begun to turn pinkish. * * * * I love the sweet scents wafting in the breeze. I stop to admire the vibrant colors of all living things. And people think me odd. Then ODD I am!!! http://community.webshots.com/user/flugnash Plants: 1058 | From: SoCal via WV | Registered: Apr 2005  |  Seeded: 24.130.12.248 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       I've also heard it's good for getting stingers out if you happen to get stung? I've got these popping up everywhere (surprise!) and they drive me nuts, because you can't just pull them out (well, at least I can't) because they snap so easily. * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 66.82.9.57 4Ruddy Wild Woman Member # 2322 posted                       I have a ton of it...and am not really a poke salad eater! But, I read somewhere the other day that it is really poke sallat...is that correct? I have always known it as salad...not sallat....so then I thought that I had just been mis-pronouncing it my entire life. Have any of you ever seen it referred to as "sallat"? * * * * Happiness, like a dessert so sweet. May life give you more than you can ever eat... *** *** Plants: 7034 | From: The Land of JOY | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 162.40.164.126 mike57 Super Gardener Member # 4181 posted                       sallat is just another way some folks pronounce it. the corect name is poke salad.i have heard it pronounced both ways.your friend in gardening.mike57 * * * * No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent. Plants: 722 | From: alabama | Registered: Nov 2004  |  Seeded: 216.170.146.38 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       Yep, sallat is actually German for salad I believe. * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 66.82.9.75 jmacd Great Gardener Member # 5635 posted                       I had one of those and thought it was milkweed and left it to grow so I could get butterflies to pupate on it. When I realized it was not milkweed, I asked a friend and she called it poke weed or poke berry. Same thing. I dug it out in the fall after the plant dried up but the tap root was white and slimey (yuck) and about 4 feet long. It did come up quite easily after the ground was good and soaked by rains. I used a garden fork to dig it. * * * * Plants: 65 | From: S. E. Illinois | Registered: Jun 2005  |  Seeded: 159.218.46.119 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       tap root ? (insert screaming/running graemlin here!) * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 66.82.9.67 Carly Garden Pro! Member # 3052 posted                       Ahhhhhhhh! I think somebody identified that for me about a month ago - they're very hard to get up out of the ground. I have created a spot where I'm going to put some really wierd looking big weeds - stuff like those big thorns, etc. Maybe I'll include that sallat. I still think they're little trees that are trying to grow though. No matter - I'll put them there anyway. It's on the curve of a fence where I've put some logs - I've been throwing leaves and some of that gawd-awful clayish soil. I notice they aren't particular where they grow. * * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004  |  Seeded: 69.194.112.206

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