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Post by wbblount on Sept 5, 2011 7:23:29 GMT -5
Mr. Wolf,
Is there a market for polk root this year?
Thanks,
Bill
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Post by furbuy46 on Sept 5, 2011 14:55:19 GMT -5
I can use poke root at .75cents a dry lb. Cut up and clean. You would be better off digging goldenseal root at 22.00 per dry lb. or bloodroot at 10.00 per dry lb if you can still find either of these herbs. If you lived close to me, you could pick yellow dock tops, which is a very good sized top and it is worth 1.00 a lb. ginseng also will be fair to start with and probably go up. it is worth about 350 dry at this time or a 100 green
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Post by wbblount on Sept 5, 2011 15:51:40 GMT -5
Thanks Don The reason I was asking about polk root, when I was out looking for my sang where they logged last winter, the open areas are over taken with young polk, the roots are fairly easy to dig they are nice and white and look like giant sang roots,Im having hard time locating the sang,The woods is a 180 acre brush pile now, I found a few ounces and a nice bunch of seed that I replanted,I have been seeing some blood root,but no goldenseal,
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Sept 9, 2011 9:30:24 GMT -5
that sang is a perfect investment now and probably safe. the biggest and best sang I ever dug came out of crawling thru briars and fingerling size saplings about 5-8 years after a clear cut. big stuff, and now very safe from theft or interlopers. I notice in partial logging about 5 years after the logging the remains of the rotted tops left in the woods are full of little seng. the birds and chippies must carry the seed there, or poop it out, while roosting and hanging out in the tops.
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Post by furbuy46 on Sept 9, 2011 10:54:40 GMT -5
Some of the best seng you ever dig will come from cut over woods. Sun gets into the woods and causes the roots to grow faster along with all the rotting wood etc. seed production picks up a lot and yes birds and chipmunks carry seed all over the place.
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Post by wbblount on Sept 9, 2011 13:24:56 GMT -5
That,s what I thought. I was going to dig it last year and decided to wait so I will just let it go for a few years.Right now it would be easy to get tangeled up and breaking a leg or some thing.
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