Kudzu

When I was down in Sanford, NC in mid-April, it looks like the kudzu died. Was it my imagination? What happened? No sure I like dead kudzu vines in the trees anymore than the live stuff, but at least the live stuff was green and blended in somewhat.

It is deciduous and loses it's leaves at the first frost.

werent they going to introduce some kind of animal that feeds off of Kudzu to keep it in check? i think i heard that somewhere...

I saw on something that sheep love kudzu. It's their favorite food.

Here's an article showing that goats like kudzu... http://msucares.com/news/print/fwnews/fw97/970512jb.htm

Hope many of them will join in. LOL

Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

we should get us some of those.

They even make an edible flour from kudzu.

and jelly from the fruits or flowers or something

The jelly is made from the flowers. My grandmother used to make it every summer. Very time consuming as it take a lot of the flowers to make very little jelly, however it is very tastey sort of like a tart grape. The vine itself she made baskets from and used the small tuberus roots, (dried and ground), as a thicking agent is soups and stews. Here in the mountains we are very resourceful. LOL

How delicious that jelly sounds. The flowers always smelled like grape Kool-ade to me so your description is right on.