One person's weed is another's useful herb.Sorry if I was a little dramatic. No one would ever want to grow 90% of the plants on that list anyway, but a few show extreme promise as permaculture plants.
Where kudzu wasn't hideously invasive, I imagine it could be a quite usefulI've been on this quest for a day or two now, since I realized that my (very casually made) "compost" doesn't do crud for most plants, except that legumes thrive in it. Roots produce the largest caloric yield of any type of crop, in general, so it seems logical to seek out leguminous root crops. The last I checked, nature had blessed us with very few of these crops: three that are basically jicamas, three types of kudzu, and Apios americana, the American groundnut. I tried Apios, and it didn't thrive. Two kinds of jicama won't grow here, and the other (ahipa) is being held hostage by local "scientists" (until someone comes up with enough bucks, I presume). That only leaves the kudzu. I'll be growing it in raised beds, where it can't go anywhere.
plant! In my new home in Missouri, kudzu is a serious pest to be battled, as
it is attempting to take over the forest and native trees, choking out
large, mature trees and killing them. If I lived in a climate where kudzu
didn't grow so rampantly and invasively, I would probably like the plant, as
it is attractive and has some useful attributes.
Back in Illinois, I did battle with Canadian thistle and won. We bought 30Did that work with regular white vinegar, or was it higher concentration? How often did you have to kill the top and for how long?
acres of land with a serious infestation of Canadian thistle that had almost
completely overtaken pasture and alfalfa fields. Brush hogging was not
enough to control it. I ended up spraying the individual plants with vinegar
to kill them, as that way I had minimal kill of the desired grasses, and the
grasses quickly filled in the spots where the thistle had been. It took a
long time to spray the whole 30 acres by hand (OMG did it take time!!!!!!!),
but the results were outstanding. Where the thistle wasn't invasive, I
imagine that many folks would appreciate the plant in smaller colonies.
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