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climber
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NeeBee, you want to pick the young tender shoots that have not started to turn red. Maybe about a foot long to fry like okra.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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They say that at certain times of the year, in Sonoma county, it's not safe to leave your car unlocked.
You could come back from the store, and find your car filled with zucchini!
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climber
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Lois, those are nice books.
About all that overboiling of poke salet. That's not how we did it. Jusy pick the small tender leaves and use them. I think some people were bothered not by taking in the poke but were scorched a bit when it left. Probably used too large leaves.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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yeah, let's more photos, like Lois garden, and what ever happened to that quarry photo?
So Matt,is Bezerkely a Lois-free zone, now?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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I myself am concentrating
my efforts on xeriscape.
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climber
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That's a cool garden, Jaybro. What did you do? Piss on that poor plant?
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Bump for LEB's sweet garden
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climber
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Lois, I never ate purslane but a lot of folks love it. From the looks of him, Ghandi could have used a good helping of walleyes and hushpuppies. Maybe some biscuits and sawmill gravy.
I heard he was big on enemas.
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climber
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Lois, poke grew everywhere and early and was handy till garden greens and okra were big enough. Poverty was an issue also. Some people were so poor, they didn't have mice.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Just got back after picking (and snacking on) fresh blueberries from our neighbor's bushes -- they're huge and sweet right now. Corn, pumpkin, tomato, cucumber, lots of stuff coming soon.
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Matt
Trad climber
always on the lookout for ed's 5.10 OW van
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I really had hope for this to be a cool thread-
...full of pictures of gardens and whatnot.
Oh well
I won't bother disrupting whatever is going on here w/ any annoying jpegs.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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poke,purslane before 'possum!
Matt, please, photos, show the rest of us what our gardens miss in this cool summer in the fog belt.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there... say, matt, great idea to see the post of pictures from these gardens... as it is the wonderful green parts of nature that we all love---say, my scanner is broke, so my odd meager garden may not get up here, our i would help out some... say, and god bless you all, as you partake of this great stuff come harvest time... which, may be, even now... in calif...
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Poke Salad Annie
If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it...
Carry it home and cook it for supper,
'Cause that's about all they had to eat,
But they did all right.
[sung]
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
There lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame
Poke salad Annie, poke salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
(A mean, vicious woman)
Everyday 'fore supper time
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess o' polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack
Poke salad Annie, 'gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang
(a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy. Pick a mess of it)
Her daddy was lazy and no count
Claimed he had a bad back
All her brothers were fit for
Was stealin' watermelons out of my truck patch
Poke salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a working' on the chain gang
(Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need a mess of it)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Classic Fugu on a bed of Poke of uncertain age, now there's sport.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2007 - 01:15pm PT
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Hey Matt. Let's see those photos! Just post em up without making a scene of it. Want to see what you're doing.
Well, I think the gophers may have gotten my squash. Gonna have to get some bullets...
...I can always eat gopher.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Cool thread. I have no garden but neat stuff all...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Damnit, LEB, when are you gonna post a pic of that quarry?
DMT can surely find a quarry pic somewhere on the web.
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Matt
Trad climber
always on the lookout for ed's 5.10 OW van
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jerry- just as soon as i am less buried i will start a tangent thread, for photos only, and we can link to this thread for the wandering discussion, how's that?
(maybe i am just waiting for the corn and pole beans to get taller while the basil varieties and mojito mints thicken up...? either way, i can tell you that the white peaches, the blueberries, and especially the strawberries all taste great in the morning, especially while eating breakfast in the hottub =)
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2007 - 03:19pm PT
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What ever you want to do Matt... are your garden and photos so good they need their own thread? We're unworthy!!! Perhaps Ed should start his own thread as well. LOL! Breakfast in the hot tub photos might be grounds for a new thread, as long as the pictures of your wife and not you. Double LOL! ;-)
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