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The Mountain Provides.....Spring Time

Yup, spring is here...and the poison ivy is already waist high on our archery course. Makes me itch just thinking about it...
 
poison oak here and it is all shinny and waiting....I don’t get it so I'm lucky . I have seen firefighters hauled off of fires from breathing the smoke, if you get it good and you breathe the smoke it lays you out bad
 
That's truth.

Poison sumac is the worst stuff I EVER got into.

Poison ivy can be kinda bad, chiggers and ticks, I can deal with. But sumac and sumac smoke is evil and it grows as big as a tree around here.

I had to go to the Dr. over that stuff.
 
We get people who don’t know if they get it or not and during fireseason they find out....I have seen 10000 cases and they all seem to be different. When I ran an engine I had a crewman that had it so bad he couldn’t sleep, we been on fires for a week 16 hour days , night shift so he had to try to sleep in a tent sweating during the day , on the third night he got into a bald face hornet nest, they are one of the only bees that can turn in mid air and hit you with the stinger, then they clamp on with the jaws and keep getting you with the retractable stinger.....I have never seen someone that miserable lol
 
Ok..here's the goods.
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John A. said:
That's truth.

Poison sumac is the worst stuff I EVER got into.

Poison ivy can be kinda bad, chiggers and ticks, I can deal with. But sumac and sumac smoke is evil and it grows as big as a tree around here.

I had to go to the Dr. over that stuff.
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I have both poison ivy and sumac in my yard. Every other summer or so, I get both. The hair below my calves is now permanently missing from scratching with my shoes on. Depends on how lazy I am to put on long pants to do the weed trimming... :oops:
 
Damn fellas! I was just out hiking last weeks and saw a ton of honeysuckle, wild strawberries, and huckleberries all in bloom. My parents have blackberries and raspberries in their backyard blooming as well as blueberries. Also grapes and gooseberries apearing in the vines. It's going I be a good year! I'm going to attempt a 60 mile bike trip on Wednesday, I'm sure ill find something to take a picture of and add it to this thread.
 
Poke Sallet.

Really good fried up like mustard greens with a big hot slice of cornbread (if you're into slicing your corn bread). We broke corn bread growing up.

Pokeweed is a wild plant that grows almost anywhere there is lots of sun. The roots are extremely poisonous but have been used for various medicinal purposes. The tender young shoots are edible and are considered a delicacy. With the coming of Spring in the southern Appalachian Mountains, they love to make polk sallet (pronounced salad). There is actually a Poke Sallet Festival in June in Harlan, Kentucky.

Poke Salad

4 quarts young tender poke shoots
1/4 cup bacon drippings (bacon grease)
1 teaspoon salt
3 eggs

Wash poke shoots well. Place in a large kettle with water to coveer and bring to a boil. Drain. Cover again with water, bring to a boil, and cook for another 20 minutes. Drain well.

Place in a cast-iron frying pan with bacon drippings and salt. Cook at medium heat for 30 minutes.

Add eggs and stir until eggs are done, Serve with corn bread and green onions.

From: "Smithsonian Folklife Cookbook", recipe from Janice Miracle, Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Here is recipe for Southern Cornbread over 150 years old from Ora Watson of Deep Gap, North Carolina. She was 82 years old in 1969 when this recipe was given. It was her Grandmother's recipe.

2 cups cornmeal
1/4 cup flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 egg yolks
1 1/2 cups milk
2 tablespoons shortening, melted

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Combine all ingredients and mix well.
Pour batter into a hot, greased cast-iron frying pan and bake for 25 to 3o minutes.

"Smithsonian Folklife Cookbook".
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rjpoog1989 said:
Damn fellas! I was just out hiking last weeks and saw a ton of honeysuckle, wild strawberries, and huckleberries all in bloom. My parents have blackberries and raspberries in their backyard blooming as well as blueberries. Also grapes and gooseberries apearing in the vines. It's going I be a good year! I'm going to attempt a 60 mile bike trip on Wednesday, I'm sure ill find something to take a picture of and add it to this thread.
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I didn’t know huckleberries grew outside the Pacific Northwest....or below 3000 ft
Around here you don’t see huckleberries below 3500 feet
 
Maybe they aren't actually huckleberries, that's just what I was always told that they were.

Here's a picture of blackberries from my adventure yesterday:
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Mmmm....those look delish John. I was just in my garden, beans are ready!! Hot peppers....and 2 squash..and 4 zuchs... had them last night as a shish ka bob...yummm
 
John, I see you use ziplock bags for storing. I've never been happy with them, so a few years ago we bought a FoodSaver vacuum storage machine and never looked back. Paid for itself many times over in avoiding freezer burn and mold on veggies, meats, cheese, etc. We freeze most of our garden produce rather than canning, and also our venison, chicken, etc. . :)
 
Looking good. Some things we are growing are about done and some are just hitting their groove.
 
nice John. having a later season here. started about 3 weeks late,due to the cold spring we had.
i got to get the camera out. :)
 
We've had really good everything this year.

Gunny, I have been using food saver bags, but was just out of them when I took pics of the apples earlier. Just FWIW, those apples in the ziplocks are already gone. :)

It's hard to beat fresh fried apples pies and apples and biscuits. MMMMmmm.

And since I have been going green (no chemical preservatives), as I peel and cut the apples up, I've been using straight concentrate lemon juice to soak them in until I get them in the bags. The natural acid keeps them from turning brown. ;)

As for the food saver, about halfway through 2 bushels of apples this weekend, the sealer started not sealing good and I was having to seal each bag 2 or 3 times before it would seal right. I think the foam things are pushing up too high ??

carbinemike, I'm going to have a bunch of seeds to trade with you if you're still interested. I think you and I are the only two people who has commented in the thread.

old mossy, I'd love to see some pics
 
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