Green Leaf Report

On a lighter note (getting away from nuclear war, the end of mankind, blah blah blah), let’s talk about gardening. Specifically, let’s talk about adapted plants that are more aggressive than our own native flora.

This article highlights an ongoing problem in the South: kudzu vines grow a foot a day and were introduced into the US over a century ago.  While quick growing vines would have an interesting application today for carbon sequestering, the vines smother trees and destroy native habitat.  Driving down a southern highway and seeing miles of tree stumps smothered under kudzu has always been a depressing site.  How to handle a man-induced, natural dilemma?  Bring in a natural solution- let the goats eat the kudzu!  It’s low-tech, it’s clean.   Sounds good to me.  Hopefully some of the trees will come back to the kudzu-choked areas, and the native forests will start to recover.