Things spring, I'll try harvesting and cook some, then eat them with salt and butter like boiled spinach.
Posted on 04/02/2020 9:56:02 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday is here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3830614/posts?q=1&;page=1
“Who knows?”
Those close to them know.
guessing jellybeans in a jar is not hard- if you can measure it and do a little math
I wont at cub scouts doing that- I was off by 10 in 3000
There is way, way too much focus on the day to day numbers.
Reporting requirements have changed a bunch of times in MA that I am aware of. Times change. Reporting structures have changed.
There are 10 AM reporting cut off for the state. There are federal reporting time at 5 pm. There are internal reporting times.
Each has differences and are sent differently.
Pick a reporting site. Stick with it. You will still get the “jist” of the status.
Good Lord.
That is horror movie type stuff right there.
Spanish Flu was a variant of H1N1. It’s still around.
Nice, I’ll have to look that one up too!
Thanks. They’ll make great pets.
Broadleaf plantain are supposedly used in Asian cooking, so I guess you could also stir fry them and add to your noodles and meat.
I can here her now, "Well, I'm not going to eat them! You can eat them if you want to!" Lol
I'll cook up a small batch first, I think...:)
Btw, I have tried them?
Ok, will check that link out. Thanx!
Oh sheesh, I have a ton of that too. My chickens won’t touch it for some reason.
Because that is ON TOP of normal production.
That’s about 100,000 masks a day in excess of the norm. That 2.1 Million On top of normal production. In about three weeks. Plus all of the other countries in the world. Plus other medical facilities. Plus all the knuckleheads buying them.
Does that make sense now?
Not if there are golf balls buried in the jellybeans!
Lol, just asked...Haven’t heard that many four letter words coming from her in some time.
Broadleaf Plantain
Plantain, which weary toilers dig from their lawns, hoe from their gardens, or cultivate from their fields was brought to the United States to serve man. Originally considered a valuable medicinal herb and an edible green, it was grown in monastery gardens and was cultivated in botanic gardens. It still is raised as a crop for bird feed. The name “plantain” (pronounced plantin) is of Old French origin and was derived from the Latin plantage. The word’s root, “planta” alludes to the sole of the foot, a reference to its flat leaves. Broadleaf plantain (Plantago major L. #3 PLAMA) is an Eurasian weed. The first appearance of plantain (as plautein) in English was in Wulckers Arnoglosa, published in 1265. Carolus Linnaeus named the species in 1753. Its competitive advantages - tough taproot, remarkable fecundity, and broad round leaves - have resulted in its worldwide distribution. Plantains have invaded many of the world’s agricultural regions, occurring in more than 50 countries.
Studies of peat bog pollen grains reveal that plantain was growing in England before recorded history. H. Helbaek, a Danish researcher, reported that seeds of P. major and P. lanceolata were found in northern Europe in the stomachs of `bog people’ whose mummified remains date from the 3rd and 5th centuries A.D. In Acuna, an 11th century Anglo-Saxon leech book, Alfric recommended plantain as a beneficial roadside herb. Its smooth, cool leaves offered relief for sore feet, a common affliction when walking was the usual way of traveling. Plantain appears in many medieval pictures of the Nativity. Albrecht Durer, an artist of the German Renaissance, frequently used plantains and dandelions in his woodcuts, engravings, and paintings. Plantain also is recorded in English literature. Chaucer mentioned it in 1386; and in Romeo and Juliet, published in 1592, Shakespeare refers to it as a familiar household cure-all.
Plantain was used as a healing agent for centuries. Southern Europeans placed plantain poultices on scorpion stings and snake bites, giving it the folk names “snake plant” and “serpent tongue.” Farmers used plantain to treat the severe cuts from scythe and sickle at harvest time. Plantain’s medicinal properties occur in its broad, ribbed leaves, which contain a soothing, mucilaginous fluid. Crushing the leaves and applying them as a poultice to a wound often brings relief. The herbalist Gerard reported that plantain juice dropped in the eyes “cools the heate and inflammation thereof.” The reason for the plant’s fame, he noted, is its “great commoditie” of growing everywhere. The Puritans brought plantain to New England where it was introduced to Boston, Plymouth, and the Cape Code settlements. English settlers took plantain to all the seaboard colonies, where they continued its use as a home remedy for deep cuts and sore feet. American birds found plantain seed palatable. Birds, wind, and settler’s boots and wagon wheels spread plantain so rapidly in fields and roadsides that the Indians named it “white man’s foot.” In 1798, European botanist Peter Kalm found plantain so common in New England that he supposed the plant was native there. As plantain moved westward with the pioneers, it became a troublesome weed.
Plantain was among the first European herbs grown in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, which the British East India Company established as a plant repository and distribution center in 1786. In China, Japan, and other parts of the world, plantain has been used as a leafy vegetable. The young leaves can be used like spinach or eaten as a salad. S. Boorman gives a recipe for “Sweet and Sour Plantain” in his book, Wild Plums in Brandy (McGraw-Hill Company of Canada, Ltd., 1962). Dried plantain leaves can be brewed as tea, and “plantain leaf tea” is available in the market. Like broadleaf plantain, buckhorn plantain (P. ~lanceolata L. # PLALA), a European perennial, ‘has become a widespread weed. It has narrow leaves and short cylinders of seed at the’apex of its flower i, spikes. It is particularly troublesome on prairie ‘grasslands and on the high plains. On a worldwide basis, P. lanceolata is said to be one of the most ‘successful noncultivated colonizing species. A third species, blackseed plantain (P. rugelii Dcne. # PLARU) is believed to be a native perennial. Occurring only in the eastern half of the United States, it resembles broadleaf plantain but has large black seeds, wavy round leaves, and purple-tinged leaf stalks.
http://wssa.net/wp-content/themes/WSSA/WorldOfWeeds/whitemansfoot.html
Back when I was convinced bird flu was going to do us in, I made some for my family. It got a thumbs up, but the texture of spinach was preferable.
We have a lot of poke weed too, but I’m nervous about it because at some point it becomes poisonous. I think Kudzu just becomes inedible.
Please do your own research though. Personally, I’m a bit nervous about trying new things now that my healthcare system is full of cv patients. I’d hate to end up in an ER with an allergy.
Thank you.
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