Georgia Kudzu

So I decided to start a blog that family and friends could see what was going on in our lives that we really do not want to post on facebook or myspace. Then I had the hardest time trying to come up with a URL because some of the really cute ones were gone of course. I wanted something that said something about Georgia and I started thinking about growing up and what I loved about Georgia and there were so many things like Peaches, Pecans, warm springs, long summer nights, cool falls and short winters. But I could not come up with any names to go along with any of that so then I started thinking about the house I grew up in and the yard I played in and all I could think about was the Kudzu in the back yard that took over. No matter what you did it would always grow back, it would kill the trees, it would cover the house and the yard. I can even remember thinking if our dog would lay there long enough it would cover him. So that is where I came up with the name Georgia Kudzu. So then I decided to look up some facts about Kudzu and this is what I found.

The Amazing Story of Kudzu

Love It, Or Hate It... It Grows On You!

In Georgia, the legend says "That you must close your windows at night to keep it out of the house. The glass is tinged with green, even so..."
From the poem, "Kudzu," by James Dickey

There's so much of this fast-growing vine in the Southeastern U.S., you might think it was a native plant. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help kudzu spread so widely. Now that it covers over seven million acres of the deep South, there are a lot of people working hard to get rid of it! But kudzu is used in ways which might surprise you...

*The State of Georgia promoted the use to of the vine to stop erosine

*It can grow a foot per day during the summer months

*People have made baskets out of the vine

*One lady in South Carolina even made paper out of it

Well growing up Georgia I never found Kudzu to be a wonderful vine I found it more annoying like most but I think you just learn to deal with it.