permaculture

[Marimike6@cs.com]

I live in Wake County North Carolina, and have the most obnoxious patch of 
passion fruit you ever saw. In some areas of the planet it may control 
weeds-- I 
have no reason to doubt that in the tropics it may be allelopathic. And in 
other regions it certainly constitutes a beautiful exotic, when introduced 
for 
its showy flowers and carefully tended.

But around my place it just smothers everything. Such vines as I want to keep 
for ornament I have to train, so they don't strangle the other plantings. 
Fortunately I don't need a machete, as the stuff is shallow rooted and comes 
right up. But it has zero potential for controlling weeds. It can sprout amid 
a 
patch of healthy weeds and just head straight for the tree tops.

The fruit has a vaguely pleasant taste, although only a faint one (again, in 
tropical regions the flavor may well be stronger). And the flowers, as I 
said, 
are fabulous. But otherwise, this is one of the Lord's useless creations.