Weed Appreciation Day

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Submitted by DizzyDaffodil on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:09
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Today is Weed Appreciation Day. Find a weed you think you could like. Think of it as a wildflower and see if that helps.
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fav weed?

Submitted by DeborahWheat (not verified) on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 14:36.

I just know that you are losing your mind Susann! (not yet ,but getting close)

What's my fav weed?

Hmmmmmm I never thought that I had one before now,I have always just yanked them out and bagged em up for the garbage!

As for dandelions,I eat them so they just couldn't be a weed!1 Oh and Poke Salad!(This just can't be a weed) I love it after I boil and toss the water and then boil again and toss the water,then I scramble them up with eggs! Yum !! (they (poke salad)are just starting to come up now,be sure and get the baby leaves!)Oh and the red berries they make are great dye for anything ya want to be red!But,don't eat them!

Well,I guess my "Fav Weed" would have to be "The Sensitive Plant"!!

Oh Those beautiful pink blooms,and the way when you touch the leaves they fold up.

Oh no,does this mean I'm losing my mind too? Oh my move over Susann make room for me too!

LOL

 

By the way ,what's you fav weed Susann??

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Deb did you read Treeman's

Submitted by disgett on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 15:42.
Deb did you read Treeman's info about Poke Salad?  Dale

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Yeppers Dale!

Submitted by DeborahWheat (not verified) on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 15:44.
I know how to cook it,I have just about my entire life,most folks from here cook and eat it.
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I love

Submitted by latebloomer on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 14:11.
dandelions...made into salad! We also have a plant in CA that we used to call sourgrass that is the first thing to flower in the Spring. The leaves look like clover and the single bell shaped .flower is held on a 12 inch stem. Very pretty for a weed. Now who has Black Forest cake......?
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Careful with Poke!

Submitted by treeman on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 11:39.

Poke weed is very poisonous.... all parts!  Those that eat it have to boil and rinse it multiple times to cleanse it and use only emerging foliage.  Unless you have experience with it, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole (as far as eating it goes)

 

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Hmmmm....

Submitted by mawnature on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 12:59.

Treeman, you are right.  Poke weed is poison, but not if you know how to prepare it.  My mother always picked poke as long as there were any new shoots.  She parboiled it once, and drained it.  Then cooked it like any other greens.  We ate it like spinach, or like Deb, scrambled in eggs.  I love it, and have it on my place, but let it get too large to pick this  year. Frown

maw

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Fav weed?

Submitted by treeman on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 11:34.

 

Perhaps it be Mullien or maybe ditch lilies (tiger Lilies).  I like the exclamation mark that mullien makes, and well, when the ditch daylilies are in bloom around here they do make the road sides very attractive.

"He who plants a tree, plants hope" Lucy Larcom

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Don't tell me to

Submitted by DorothyD on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 08:46.

appreciate these things!!!!! Frown My back hurts from pulling weeds yesterday.  I have wild geranium growing in my lawn.  I'm going to take some aleve now. 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him will not perish but have everlasting life.  John 3:16 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him will not perish but have everlasting life.  John 3:16 

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Weeds

Submitted by PENNY2638 on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 06:50.

I do have some huge dandelions also. They do have a pretty yellow bloom on them. But if they are in there with my lovely flowers It must be moved. hehehe.

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Poke Salad Annie Song....

Submitted by SandiB on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 23:41.

Song sang by Tony Joe White 1969. Elvis did a great version too!

Remember that Dale? Smile

 

*~*Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance*~*

 

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SandiB how well I

Submitted by disgett on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 06:27.

SandiB how well I remember.  I am telling my age but I was born in 1949.  First time I heard the song and knew what the song was saying couldn't believe the song.  That goes to show you a song can be song about anything.  HeHeHe.  Dale  

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While we are on the subject...

Submitted by disgett on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 10:43.

While we are on the subject today is also National Black Forest Cake Day.  Now that is definitely something to celebrate.  Dale

Dale, Photo Team Leader & Good Will Ambassador

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Isn't Poke salad a weed. 

Submitted by disgett on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:52.
Isn't Poke salad a weed.  Some folks really eat it.  Dale

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I remember my Dad used to

Submitted by randy cobb on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 08:49.
I remember my Dad used to pick poke salad and eat it after cooking.  I can't remember if I ever tried it though.  I probably didn't unless I was made to.
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 I know I am a different

Submitted by WildIris on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:41.

 I know I am a different sort of person...but I like mose weeds....my granny always said they are just wild flowers...the lost plants ...always the strongest plant ...when nothing eles will grow you will find a weed...

It's me vegemm "So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase." 1 Corinthians 3:7 

 

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WELL....

Submitted by flwrs on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:33.

 Well...I know ONE daffodil I would pluck right outta the garden.....Tongue out tee hee

Well, when I lived in Florida, I spent alot of time "weeding" lantana, and now I have to pay to put it in my garden...LOL I left an area of buttercups grow last season, that wasnt too close to my plant beds, and really enjoyed them.

 

"Compost, because a rind is a terrible thing to waste !"

 

 

"Compost, because a rind is a terrible thing to waste !"

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flwrs is practicing

Submitted by DizzyDaffodil on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 10:23.

flwrs is practicing ~ to be a MEAN old woman!

ROFLMBO!!

 

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  Well, I want to

Submitted by flwrs on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 10:31.

Well, I want to be JUST LIKE YOU when I grow up !!! ROFLMBO....LOL *tears running down my cheeks...Laughing

 

"Compost, because a rind is a terrible thing to waste !"

 

 

"Compost, because a rind is a terrible thing to waste !"

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I have to admit, I

Submitted by Lavender2 on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:25.

I have to admit, I had a huge dandelion in my vege garden last spring...the thing was like a bush!... well, I just had to see it bloom.  It turned out a real pretty yellow bouquet, huge flowers... you couldn't tell it was a danelion from a distance.  I don't think I'd like a whole border or anything... but, it wasn't a bad looking display! Smile

Leave it to you Dizzy... reminding us to appreciate all things beautiful! Laughing 

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Well...

Submitted by M A Long on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 09:14.

I know that there are several that I don't like but I guess if I had to pick one I guess it would have be a dandelion.

 

Melissa

 

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