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Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015) by h2odragon on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:50PM (#23670096)
Kudzu is a bitch to fight, but areas where it grows best aren't good for much else anyway. In my area the kudzu patches cover areas almost too rough for goats to graze.

I hadn't known of the beetle mentioned in the article, but I've seen wild grapevines beat kudzu in a couple places the past decade and wondered why. Suspect that's the reason.

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Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015) by adrianN on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:12PM (#23670292)
Not good for much else humans care about. The ecosystems in those spots might feels differently.
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Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015) by wavefunction on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:40PM (#23670496)
Are there places too rough for goats to graze? They're commonly climbing almost vertical surfaces whether wild or domestic.
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Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015) by h2odragon on Sunday June 28, 2020 @02:50PM (#23671096)
They can survive, and wild ones thrive, in places where a commercial goat farm could not be made to operate. I have in mind a particular neighbor who tried to run goats in an awful kudzu covered gorge on his land. The kudzu survived, the goats didn't.
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Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015) by projektfu on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:05PM (#23673713)
The tragedy is that the wild muscadines don't seem to produce a sweet fruit.
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