Can you say Kudzu?
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Kudzu.
Will duct tape help?
AnnieLee
Kudzu can grow up to six inches a day. If you don't get it under control it can take over anything. ;)
Kudzu the southern cactus....
KIDZU? Isn't that where all children are kept?
Kudzu................................................ (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/BadlandsWalker/jedi1.gif)
Up here we ain't got no kudzu, but if yer not careful the musk thistles will take over yer pasture. ;)
Ya need something that will clear out the weeds and not harm the rest of the pasture.
Kudzu is a weed.
When I was in the United States Army of America and my wife and I would move into new living quarters, in the flower beds we couldn't tell which were flowers and which were weeds. To find out, we'd pull up everything. The ones that grew back were the weeds.
When I bought this shack, it had a fence 'cross the back the developer put up 30 sum years ago. It was ugly. Tore it down, disposed of it 'n built me one six foot tall. 4x4 posts, 2x4 framin' 'n trellis in between. Hunnert feet werth. Did it all by my lonesome.
Been weavin' ivy thru it fer years. Lookin' real nice it was.
Then this hurry-cane blew thru. Dropped a couple trees on it. Totalled the thing. That damned ivy made clearin' the debree an absolute pain. That's the thanks ya get.
Got me a new fence goin' now. Done 'bout 80 feet. A four foot picket. Operations are suspended at the moment. Too much poisonious crap growin' in there. Finish it this winter, after I bag up sixty or seventy bags of dead leaves ah week.
I love nature. But, ya kin bank on the fact that I'm gonna kill anything nature puts anywheres near this new fence.
I long to live in concrete, steel and glass. Or, in the middle of nowhere where the only live plant stuff within two hundred yards is grass 'n maybe a 'mater plant or two. No trees, no vines, no kids-zoo..........
We've got ivy problems here, but luckily no kudzu. This ivy has small almost round leaves to it and spreads like mad. Tough to kill, it is! This now is coming into the ragweed and goldenrod season here......AAAAAAACCCHHHHOOOO...............Buck 8) ::) :o :o
Up in this neck of the woods we have an aquatic plant that grows like gangbusters. It's called Millfoil. If left unchecked it can clog up a lake in a few weeks. There is a constant battle with it here.
Kudzu? Bless you, hope you get over that cold...........*passing Derby Younger a tissue* ;)
When you go hunting try to walk through a thicket of Mesquite. It will tear you up, trip you up, and hide game just a few feet away...Ahh Texas.
LazyK Pejay
Quote from: Micheal Fortune on August 28, 2005, 03:25:59 PM
Kudzu? Bless you, hope you get over that cold...........*passing Derby Younger a tissue* ;)
Thank you Sir........really hope that happens.
Kudzu? Could I what? I know, it's a knock knock joke. :D
Kudzu was first planted in Georgia during Governor Carter's term by the Department of Transportation. They were looking for a quick growing plant to use on hillsides next to the highways to eliminate errosion. The DOT employee who recommened Kudzu had not really looked at the fact that it spreads everywhere and can not even be killed by a nuclear bomb. He left the state's employ after it began to overgrown everything in the state but poison ivy. I'm proud to say he was later run to ground, forced to eat kudzu for a week, and then hanged. No one ever found his rotting corpse because the kudzu grew up the side of the hanging tree and covered it up. A fitting end in my opinion.
Dang! I thought it was a new dirt bike! ;) :D
Kudzu- cacti -thistle-mesquite, are just like Ground Hogs you never know where they will pop up
Ice Plant. Kudzu west.
Get the cosies to workin' on a recipe for it. Then tell the Californians it's a new diet food and besides , it's really "in" to be seen eating it in salads.
See about having Alan Aldo or Ellen Degenerate endorse it. Oprah would be even better.
It'll vanish.
No would not work, as soon as it was scarce they would put it on the endangered species list and with out any control it would take over the world in 3 days.
We have put similar controls on the human weeds, they call it warning labels. Now almost all dumb people survive, soon they take over the world. :o :o :o
'minds me of a tee shirt Renegade Angel got me.....
Never Underestimate the power of Stupid People in Large Groups!
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Would love a T-shirt like that except I only wear them around the house any more. Maybe a bumper sticker, but the bumper fell of my "Ol' Rusty" I drive to work. My wife is too soft hearted towards stupid people to leave such on her bumper. ;D
Yep, we needs less warning labels or we'll loose the whole human race and replace it with a lesser species. ;D
If any of you feel deprived by not having any Kudzu in your own area, just let me know and I'll get some seeds or plantings your way. Just let me know the size of the state you're in. I estimate that it would take at lest for or five seeds or cuttings to completely cover up Texas or Califorina in three years.
I live to far north for kudzu, dillers and fire ants to survive. Many times it is even too cold for fools to survive. ::)
Must be a fine place to live Del.
It is, but don't let to many know. ;D Why we got places you can see the view for miles and there ain't none a dem durned trees in the way. Never seen what folks seen in looking at nuthing but trees fer miles and miles, all ya need it a few down by the crick fer shade and campfire wood. ;D
Amen.
I live on the edge of the second largest city in Newbrasky and in 15 minutes I can be on roads seldom traveled, 5 minutes if I take the dirt roads. ;D
In 2 1/2 hours I can be on paved roads that you don't need to take a side road for reliief, just stop at the top of a hill and look and see no one for miles in either direction, sometimes the side roads are 10 miles apart. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Forty Rod on August 29, 2005, 08:44:05 PM
Get the cosies to workin' on a recipe for it. Then tell the Californians it's a new diet food and besides , it's really "in" to be seen eating it in salads.
See about having Alan Aldo or Ellen Degenerate endorse it. Oprah would be even better.
It'll vanish.
There is an article in the August issue of "Southern Living" about eating Kudzu. Why constantly fight it when you can just eat it?
They suggest, grinding it into a powder, eating the tubors, using the purple flowers for salads, and even frying the leaves. They are good in both vitamin A & C.
Sod Buster, I have seen hungry deer eating kudzu, but I ain't never been that hungry. Do me a favor and let the folks in California know it's healty to eat. Maybe I can start a sideline business in shipping kudzu there.
Heck, even my sheep won't eat kudzu.
Quote from: Big John Denny on August 30, 2005, 11:43:10 PM
Sod Buster, I have seen hungry deer eating kudzu, but I ain't never been that hungry. Do me a favor and let the folks in California know it's healty to eat. Maybe I can start a sideline business in shipping kudzu there.
Just now I found the following receipes for Kudzu using Google:
Kudzu Blossom Jelly
Rolled Kudzu Leaves
Kudzu Fried Chicken
Apple Cider
..and lots more!
There is even a book "Kudzu Cuisine". We ought to be able to find something in there that those folks in California would like. Then we can start shippin it. Perhaps we can even plant it along their highways and in their gardens to help.
I've got seeds and cuttings standing by.
Maybe Forty would like to start a Kuduz bo-tique ???
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OK, as long as we don't let him write the ads. You know he doesn't speak American, but some strange alien tongue.