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To: aSkeptic
Since Kudzu is a vine, tie it to rollers which roll very slow.At the end of the year, harvest the rolls. You could place the rolls up high to make a nice canopy:)

Until it rained.

For a while, folks were using the vines for weaving, much like cane or wicker is sometimes used. Only problem is that you need to keep it away from the kitchen or bathroom. Yep.

The woven baskets would start sprouting, then growing as much as a foot of offshoots a day, worse if there was sunlight around. Hardy stuff.

-archy-/-

20 posted on 12/03/2002 3:23:45 PM PST by archy
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To: archy
In my grandma's time, it was known as "telegraph vine" because it grew as fast as the telegraph could send (almost). It's also known as "yard-a-night" . . . the only question being whether that's "yard" as in "three feet" or as in "front and back."

I would not recommend this stuff for horses, their digestive system is too delicate and this will colic them up. A goat is the answer, if you have more than a 40' right of way then 2 or 3 goats should do it. I don't know about llamas. I have as little to do with cows as possible (worked one summer on a dairy farm and another on a beef cattle ranch, and THAT was enough for me), but I suppose their comprehensive digestive system would make short work of the kudzu.

21 posted on 12/03/2002 8:03:03 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
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To: archy

You have everybody in my house ROTFL. That stuff is nasty. (We are in VA).


25 posted on 08/20/2006 1:34:48 PM PDT by patton (LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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To: archy; leda

We need a goat.


27 posted on 08/20/2006 1:36:06 PM PDT by patton (LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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To: archy
ROTFLMAO! Fiend!

Can the stuff be used to make likker?

35 posted on 08/20/2006 1:48:04 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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