[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Lisa]

A little tip for getting rid of vine type plants that you don't want
around... get a goat.  They love briars, blackberries, etc... and they will
eat them down to the point of killing them off.  Speaking from experience,
we lost several blackberry bushes  and honeysuckle to goats, as well as the
pleasant loss of briars, poison ivy, sumac, etc.  Unfortunately though, they
also like saplings.

Lady Elizabeta of Rundel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mute Swan


> At 03:57 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:
>
> >I live in the land of Kudzu, which literally will overtake you if you
> >nap too long near
> >it.  It grows on and over anything.  I think it is an import, but it's
> >not bad to look at
> >once it is all green.
>
> Blackberries. Bazillions of them. And there's a variety of sumac (tree) up
> here that is really nasty. Grows too fast, sends runners underground- the
> kind of trash tree that pops up in the median, crack in the driveway, by
> the fence in the vacant lot... Really hard to remove, the leaves have
> caustic chemicals, the sap is corrosive, and you can't burn the stuff
> because the nasty stuff gets into the air- IIRC it's not legal to burn the
> d at mn things. Best you can do is to try to kill them when they first shoot
up.
>
> There's also a kind of gorse that is causing a lot of problems on the
> coast- it crowds out the native stuff in the dunes, which creates serious
> erosion problems.
>
> Plants are best left where they belong...
>
> 'Lainie
>
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