The Secret Life of Kudzu
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The Secret Life of Kudzu
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#2I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
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#3I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
It's front and center of an REM album cover [Murmur]. I guess it's more of a southern thing thus its appearance on an REM album art.
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#4I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
I'm guessing you've never lived in Georgia.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing you've never lived in Georgia.
I was stationed in South Carolina. First thought.
As a child, I always heard that it was everywhere because the roots grow six feet deep and it can grow back from the roots. A quick google trying to confirm that suggests it grows twelve feet deep and is edible, among other things.
It was everywhere where I grew up, especially covering the ditches, etc alongside highways.
http://www.eattheweeds.com/kudzu-pueraria-montana-var-lobata...
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/kudzu1.htm
https://www.freeplants.com/kudzu.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kud...
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#7I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
It's front and center of an REM album cover [Murmur]. I guess it's more of a southern thing thus its appearance on an REM album art.
REM is from UGA
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#8I'll openly admit that until now, I thought kudzu was just the name of a Red Hat Linux command used to detect and configure new hardware....
It's front and center of an REM album cover [Murmur]. I guess it's more of a southern thing thus its appearance on an REM album art.
Well it is referred to as "the vine that ate the south".
Where I live anything left alone for a few years will be consumed by it. Its everywhere.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was stationed in South Carolina. First thought.
As a child, I always heard that it was everywhere because the roots grow six feet deep and it can grow back from the roots. A quick google trying to confirm that suggests it grows twelve feet deep and is edible, among other things. It was everywhere where I grew up, especially covering the ditches, etc alongside highways. http://www.eattheweeds.com/kudzu-pueraria-montana-var-lobata... https://science.howstuffworks.co…
I worked a summer helping clear it and saw it all grow back the next year. I didn't want that job again....the lines tangle up machines so best to attack with hand tools and just cut cut cut.
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#10The biggest problem I have with kudzu is the thought of copperheads and rattle snakes hiding in them. Used to scare me to death as a kid.