[Sca-cooks] Mute Swan

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 05:24 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:
>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.

Heh. Regina's brother has llamas, and they do a pretty good job of it! 
However, goats and llamas don't do so well in an urban environment. There's 
cats and dogs and boys with their pants falling down, but no goats... ;-)

'Lainie
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