Re: OT: kudzu
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- Subject: Re: OT: kudzu
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- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:15:42 -0500
From: "Patrick O'Connor" <swamp@ix.netcom.com>
From, Louisiana, the Nutria capital of the USA, I echo those sentiments.
At 12:48 PM 8/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>From: BILLS@hsc.edu (Bill Shear)
>
>Hints for planting Kudzu:
>
>Chop a hole in an asphalt driveway with an old hatchet. Drop in a kudzu
>seed and follow with a quart or more of used crankcase oil. Replace the
>chopped-out asphalt with fresh, hot tar and gravel.
>
>Then stand back.
>
>Here in central Virgina, kudzu (luckily for us) freezes back to its roots
>each year, but it still manages to recover to grow 40-50 ft during the
>summer, smothering trees, covering old buildings and climbing utility
>poles.
>
>Just an object lesson -- never, never import and release to the wild an
>alien plant or animal no matter how attractive or useful it seems to be.
>
>Bill Shear
>Department of Biology
>Hampden-Sydney College
>Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA
>bills@hsc.edu
>804-223-6172
>fax 804-223-6387
>
>
>
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