Posted on 08/28/2015 4:42:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
not for a lack of trying
Goats love it..
In Chattanooga the city put goats up on Missionary Ridge to get rid of it..
We’ve got the native grape vines here in the north that can be a real horror show. The French named the River Raisin after them after hacking their way through the area.
Kind of like Liberalism.
I purchased kudzu seeds, and knew it well after living on Okinawa for years.
The package said to be careful, as it would grow on concrete.
That was 7 years ago. I had nothing for 5 years. And then....omg!
My dad planted some kudzu around our front porch when I was a kid. It grew so thick and long that my brother and I made hammocks in it.
There’s an old house along my daily commute here in North Carolina, nothing much and in poor condition, that has sat empty and untended for about two years. No idea why. The previous occupants, owners or otherwise, had kept the kudzu at bay for years. It’s up the walls and working on covering the roof now. It is a fast-growing vine, don’t let this author fool you.
Couldju eat kudzu?
Have you seen your brother lately?
Kudzu jelly, made from the purple blooms, is good. The root tubers can be prepared like most root vegetables. The leaves can be pickled or batter-dipped and fried. Letting milk cows get in it will cause the milk to have an odd flavor, though.
Kudzu, along with the Confederate flag, needs to be eradicated from the American landscape!....../s
yes it is edible.
Yeah, but if you eat it, it begins to grow out of your ears, nose, and every orifice of your body. :)
“Couldju eat kudzu?”
That’s what I wonder. Here near Knoxville it’s everywhere and I’m always meaning to Google Kudzu recipes. Maybe will do that now.
Poison oak vines are all over the place in the woods near me. We used to have fun when we would party in the woods back when we were underage. Every time we sent some “noob” out to gather firewood, they would start picking up the old, dry poison oak vines because they are woody and everywhere. They’d come back with an armful, and we’d get to break the news to them :)
the problem with kudzu is the roots are very deep and it is very difficult to kill if there isn’t a winter freeze deep enough. So the fact that goats or whatever can eat it back some doesn’t help a whole lots. In South Carolina it is pervasive and will smother a forest. They do all kinds of things to try and naturally get rid of it using other species that can invade the root space like bamboo. Not sure how successful that was.
Now I live in north Florida where you can’t slack on the yard work because you are in reality living in a palm jungle.
The root tubers have an interesting property, prevention of hangovers.
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