Posted on 10/08/2022 2:24:04 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Yep, imported to reduce soil erosion, covers fields, telephone poles, and kills trees. I grew up in GA. As a kid I shot rats at night with a .22 and a flashlight as they came out of the Kudzu and headed for the trash cans. Learned to shoot well enough to score expert with a .45 and M16 at boot camp.
glyphosphate shouldn’t be used for anything.
Soak it with roundup when it flowers. Do that for several years, you kill almost all of it.
You can’t pull it up, even a small piece of root left in the ground will sprout a new tree.
About two years ago I was determined to get rid of a section of kudzu along a fence row, about a hundred feet by ten feet. I dug it all up, kinda looked like sweet potatoes, three truck loads, but I got it all entirely.
Kudzu is the plant that ate the south!
Yeah - or convince them one can smoke it and get high.
Try killing yucca plants. We have a small family cemetery that was overtaken by them. We’re now into year four of trying to eradicate them. We’ve chopped, dug and painted with poison but have yet to kill them off. Every spring new plants sprout to laugh at our efforts.
My father took a couple of galvanized trash cans, cut the bottoms out, and buried them with the rims at ground level. The bamboo planted in these stayed contained.
The most obnoxious invasive weeds I’ve had to deal with in Arizona are Bermuda grass and paradise tree (an imported Asian sumac). Both will regrow from any bit of root left in the ground, and Roundup doesn’t seem all that effective against them.
“The alien shrub that can’t be stopped”
I’ll raise with two rhizomes of Bermuda grass, and call with a stalk of kudzu.
Return of the Giant Hogweed (Genesis)
“...will regrow from any bit of root left in the ground...)
I’m convinced that aerating machines are just Bermuda grass pluggers. Whatever ungodly collection of weeds the equipment renter before you had in THEIR yard...is now plugged into YOUR yard. Usually, it’s Bermuda grass plugs.
There are areas in Portland where ivy has completely taken over, covering the ground and entire trees. Himalaya blackberry thickets get really big in the Northwest too, but at least they produce tasty fruit. When I was a kid, I used to take two long boards and a five-gallon bucket and work my way across the tops of the thickets where nobody else could reach the berries, sometimes 8 or 10 feet above the ground and 100 feet or more in from the edge. Falling off the boards was not a good thing.
Had a small bit at one point. A herd of goats killed it. Took three years, but there were very well fed goats courtesy of this weed.
I think glyphosate is in our vegetables
I believe it. A variety of grass I’ve always wondered about is zoysia. I’ve seen the ads claiming that it fills in from planted plugs and then is incredibly hardy, and my first thought was that I don’t want anything like that in my yard. Where we used to live, it was tough enough trying to keep the Bermuda grass under control in the garden and flowerbeds. That and morning glories — I curse the idiot who planted morning glories in that yard. Rip the vines up time after time, and they’re back in a few weeks.
Mint is another unkillable plant, but it doesn’t spread too badly.
It’s also in our drinking water from what people use in their yards.
Kudzu makes an excellent cow fodder...
That’s funny. Bermuda grass is a staple here in Florida. It coexists well with Bahia and provides good ground cover and soil stability. If you’re looking for a perfect turfgrass, I can see where you’d want to get rid of it, but for just keeping acreage looking green, it works well.
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