Saturday, May 10, 2008

Weeds or Food



Daddy and Debbie used to pick greens along side the road in the spring to cook with the poke. Daddy taught Debbie which ones you could eat. I remember lambs quarter but cannot remember what other greens they gathered. Is this weed to eat or not? Debbie called them all weeds.

3 comments:

patsy said...

yes you can eat thoese , also dandlion green, poke and lambs quarter.one time mother was questions grandpa powell about what kind of greens were safe to eat. grandpa told her you can eat any greensw as long as you cook them in hog lard. he said did you ever hear of a hog being poisioned?
you can also eat sour dock if you know what that is.

Galla Creek said...

Well, poke sounds good but it is storming here and I can't go find any.

Sister--Helen said...

I am sure he told you also but you did not pay as much attention as Debby