General Discussion

Kudzu was introduced to the U.S. in 1876 at the Philadelphia Exposition as a ground cover in their garden, people then used it as an ornamental plant, in the 1930's the Soil Conservation Service hired hundreds of workers to plant it for soil conservation, and today we welcome this green monster in the same affection of giant constrictor snakes introduced to Florida, just try and get rid of it, it is against the law to propagate this incredibly invasive plant. By the way, it is advancing north at an alarming rate.

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She means the Nutria Rat...basically a steroid jacked up guinea pig bred on the other side of the border as a food producer...quite a few have been smuggled  to this side of the Rio Grande, escaped and bred wild.

They are about the size of a small cocker spaniel when mature.

And no, I have not, and do not intend to try it anytime soon...I have run over one with our train...really rough looking critter.

Mookie:

vsmith:

"You fry the leaves and they're just like potato chips - delicious,"

Which just goes to prove something about the south I've known for years, if you can deep fry it, they'll eat it

Vic - don't they eat Nutria, too?  That would be a main dish with a side.... 

edblysard:

She means the Nutria Rat...basically a steroid jacked up guinea pig bred on the other side of the border as a food producer...quite a few have been smuggled  to this side of the Rio Grande, escaped and bred wild.

They are about the size of a small cocker spaniel when mature.

And no, I have not, and do not intend to try it anytime soon...I have run over one with our train...really rough looking critter.

Mookie:

vsmith:

"You fry the leaves and they're just like potato chips - delicious,"

Which just goes to prove something about the south I've known for years, if you can deep fry it, they'll eat it

Vic - don't they eat Nutria, too?  That would be a main dish with a side.... 

But you got your new switch engines because the kudzu dragged the old, tired EMD's off into the swamp!

GP-9_Man11786:

 Since moving to the northwestern part of South Carolina about a two months ago I've noticed that those Kudzu vines are litterally everywhere. However I've also noticed the railroads around here do seem to do a good job of keeping their ROW's clear of the stuff. How much time and money do railroads have to spend fending off this weed? I hear it's quite perniciouse.

I brought up a similar question  in 01-12-2008

If you look it up you will find a wealth of information on kudzu