Polk salad will be shooting up every where soon . You prepare it like Collards or Turnip greens . One favorite is put in a covered skillet with a little bacon or salt pork salt,pepper . Cook slow until tender . Another is boil with bacn or salt pork and salt , pepper . This plant grows wild in abundance all spring and summer . Traditionaly you pick the small ones . I have heard the old tuff ones are strong and may have some after effects . The purple berries have been used to make ink I have always been told not to eat the berries and I don't think you would want to but chickens like them . I consider this a post TEOTWAYKI food and not a staple but I know alot of folks that look foward to it every year .
Polk salad
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Can't rightly say that I've ever had polk salad. I've heard of it all my life, but for some reason just never been exposed directly as far as I know. I never liked mustard greens or turnip greens and just assumed all the other greens were like it except spinach (which I liked since I was a kid because of Popeye 
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I grew up in the heart of soul food territory, but I never even tried collard greens until a couple of years ago and found out that I loved them!
)I grew up in the heart of soul food territory, but I never even tried collard greens until a couple of years ago and found out that I loved them!
