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Post by Sam on Sept 13, 2014 5:10:59 GMT -5
I found some ginseng yesterday (9-12-14) while out shroomin' in th' booger woods. Ginseng is probably the oldest and most sought after of the medicinal plants dug for sale (mostly to Asian countries) ((who grind it up and sell it back to us at astronomical prices)). Prices this year are expected to be plus or minus $500.00 a pound for the root.
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Sept 15, 2014 18:49:33 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 15, 2014 18:49:33 GMT -5
Hope you remember where you found that plant......costly!
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Post by Sam on Sept 15, 2014 19:07:48 GMT -5
I do remember. There were several more. I pinched the tops out and hid them. Can't take it out of the woods (anything but the root). If you pinch the top out it doesn't hurt the root and it will put up a plant again next year. I just like to pinch them out when the berries are red because it makes the ginseng so easy to spot. I don't dig it anymore or sell it. It's too scarce. I did dig that one plant. I wanted to chew the stem. It's an old 'sangers' habit.
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Sept 16, 2014 9:43:58 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 16, 2014 9:43:58 GMT -5
How easy is it to get 'caught'?
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Sept 16, 2014 11:09:31 GMT -5
Post by Sam on Sept 16, 2014 11:09:31 GMT -5
Very unlikely, but there is only one road into the area where I was ... and ... it is controlled by the Natn'l Park Service so...
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Sept 17, 2014 12:43:45 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 17, 2014 12:43:45 GMT -5
Sounds like bluebonnets in Texas. It's supposed to be illegal to pick them along the roadside, but I think that is actually if you take the root with you. We used to have a pasture full of them and they are truly a pleasure in the spring here.
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Sept 17, 2014 17:39:53 GMT -5
Post by Sam on Sept 17, 2014 17:39:53 GMT -5
Marie I've seen pictures of the bluebonnets in Texas ... acres of them. Beautiful!
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Sept 19, 2014 13:33:10 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 19, 2014 13:33:10 GMT -5
I would love to seed my vacant lot with them. They grow really wall in pastures that people run cattle in....must be the fertilizer.
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Post by Sam on Sept 20, 2014 6:28:11 GMT -5
Could you maybe seed a small area then help them spread? I don't know how they propagate. If you ever get some rain, might be worth a try.
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Sept 20, 2014 16:17:22 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 20, 2014 16:17:22 GMT -5
"Whisper", "it's raining now". We've been having a little shower off and on for 4 days now and I've had a little over an inch in my gauge so far. We're 8 inches behind our 'normal' rainfall for the 3rd year in a row. One of my neighbors had a truckload of pasture dirt dumped in his yard last year and had a lovely hill of bluebonnets. This year, he leveled the hill and did have a few bluebonnets and always has a nice garden, growing whatever thrives seasonably. When Reagan was president, his wife Nancy started a program where the counties actually seeded bluebonnets along the highways here in Texas, and it really was lovely. I live 20 miles from where the 'hill country' starts and the majority of the pictures you see are taken near the home of ranchers who use a few lots to harvest bluebonnets and Indian pinks (Paint brushes). Every year, they harvest the manure from their ranch pastures and treat a few lots with it and then sow the seeds from the year before. Our pasture used to look similar to some of those pictures back when we still had horses and cows, with a few stray blooms in the yard where the birds 'dropped' the seeds last year. If I still had the whole farm, I would be running at least 3 cows and a bull
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Sept 21, 2014 4:32:05 GMT -5
Post by Sam on Sept 21, 2014 4:32:05 GMT -5
I remember seeing Nancy's reseeding on TV. Just a short blurb, but I liked that and there were pictures. Looked very nice. The Division of Highways seed some of the median along the interstate here with mixed wildflowers. In years that they do well they are so pretty.
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Sept 21, 2014 12:43:41 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 21, 2014 12:43:41 GMT -5
I agree with you. Now if they would only use non violent jailbirds to work along the highways in rural areas to pull all of the plastic bags off the barbed wire fences on the way to town. Or if we could potty train our citizens not to throw trash along the roadways. We used to see a truckload jailbirds, under the supervision of a guard, along the highway cleaning up trash.....would be a good way for them to pay off their fines.
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Post by Sam on Sept 21, 2014 17:21:39 GMT -5
I live on Temple St. I call those bags Temple St tumbleweeds.
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Sept 22, 2014 11:09:09 GMT -5
Post by froglady on Sept 22, 2014 11:09:09 GMT -5
There was an old western band called the Texas Tumbleweeds......not sure plastic bags were what they were referring too
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Post by Sam on Sept 22, 2014 11:19:55 GMT -5
Ken Curtis (Festus) from Gunsmoke had a wonderful singing voice and sang in one of the 'cowboy' bands. I think he had a rendition of the song 'Tumblin' Tumbleweeds'.
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