The kudzu vine, also known as “the plant that ate the South,” was brought from eastern Asia in 1876 and can grow more than 6.5 feet a week. Its starchy roots plunge deep into the soil, and just a fragment of the plant remaining in the ground is enough to allow it to come back next season. Few houses are abandoned and allowed to be taken over by vegetation. However, in parts of the south including the city of Atlanta those that are, are susceptible to being engulfed by kudzu. Is it really possible for this extremely irritating weed (to put it mildly) to be useful?
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Category: World
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Tuesday, 2. February 2010
The real problem with this vine is that no one in the South bothers to look up its origins and uses. I have a book on that subject. Uses include; food for humans, silage (food for animals), fiber for textiles, and many medicinal uses. According to what I have seen and these pictures, it could be purposefuly planted around a building to act as a natural radient barrier. Enough uses?
Friday, 5. February 2010
That second house is the house that is on your left going up Georgia 515 around Blairsville Georgia
Friday, 5. February 2010
Oh, and people in the south don’t bother to use it as a radient barrier for their houses, because they use Ivy for this purpose.
Thursday, 11. February 2010
that’s too bad to abandon a house like that!