Kudzu grows too fast for anybody to keep up - no matter HOW they try to dispose of it.
It is the plant that ate the planet!
On the other hand, imagine a Japanese immigrant bringing a single sprig of kudzu in from Japan to the first trail across the Cumberland - following innocently along behind ole Danial Boone as he hacks his way across virgin woodlands and trackless forests.....
They reach the end of the trail.
Turn around, intending to make their slow way home using the blazes cut in tree bark on the way west.
And find ......
Billions of kudzu vines, covering tens of thousands of square miles of (former) forest lands .... Trackless and overhung. With tons of green drooping vines that will burn in the winter in unstoppable Forest fires - yielding only more spaces to cultivate more kudzu vines the next season.
America would have never been settled.
That's rather unsettling.
(stolen from a previous kudzu thread...)
Q: How do you pland kudzu?
A: Throw it at the ground, and run like H$ll!
I still thnk it would make excellent forage, especially after this year’s extended drought.
Driving into Georgia the first time, my wife commented on the interesting aesthetics of what looked like a dark green blanket draped over the forests. “That’s pretty neat” she said. “That’s Kudzu. Everything under it is dead because the light is blocked out” I replied. Pause. “Oh gosh that’s scary” she said, squirming.
Why doesn't George Bush encourage incentives for oil companies to build more refining capacity? I voted for a genuine Texas Awlbidnessman, complete with cowboy boots, with just such a hope in mind.
I don't want to be rude,
But there sure is plenty of crude
the Whole Awl Bidness be out of kilter
Just because the big boys play too rough
won't filter enough of that stuff
To keep the price low;
the economy on the go
Gettin' more combustion out of domestic production.