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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

What are poke greens?

---- Original Message ----
From: jhecksel@voyager.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Poke greens
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:19:03 -0400

>Hello all:
>
>Seems like I read that poke greens contain a carcinogen.  Can anybody
>
>substantiate or refute?
>
>We have a pretty good crop of them and I want to try them, but not if
>
>they have been linked to a significant increase in the risk of
>cancer.
>
>On another note, we have a wild turkey nesting in the vineyard. 
>Also, 
>something has been browsing the top 8" of the nettle shoots.  I
>suspect 
>deer.  They are either very, very hungry to risk the sting, or they
>have 
>some way of neutralizing them.  Always something new to observe and 
>marvel over.
>
>-Joe
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