Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of PSP Rewind Commercial

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Okay, so as I said in the intro section, what kind of spark today's show was I was out

walking around the homestead here, little Harry and nine mile farm, and looking at some

of my aquatic systems, and I looked at this plant that I've really become quite fond of

just for the way it looks. It's called Bloody Doc, and it's Rumex Sengrecius. I'm not going

to try to do latins, but I would say Sengwenenis, I think, is probably the right way to say it,

which is basically Sengre's blood, so Rumex is actually a sorrel species, but it's called

the Doc, and I originally found this plant at pond megastore, or pond megastore is the

name of the site, and I was just looking for aquatic plants, and I was looking for both

floating plants, and what you call emergent vegetation plants, or bog plants, plants that

can grow submerged in water, or just on the water's edge, things like that, and I just looked

at it and thought, this is a really good-looking plant. I had no idea it was an edible. I should have

thought about it because many docs are edible, and so I ordered a couple of them, and they

didn't transplant very well. They're just now kind of coming back around, and it was probably

because I had so much going on, and family crisis going on when I got it, and I didn't really

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