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phone poles, over the pigsty, and over five old rusted cars, an outhouse and several dilapidated buildings next to the tracks.
You don’t see much Kudzu around Rappahannock, although I have spotted a few healthy patches over on the Massanutten, which means it will be here soon enough. If you aren’t familiar with it, you will be.
Let me explain for the uninitiated : Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is a kind of bean vine, native to Japan and China where it has been used for thousands of years for a variety of purposes.
It was first introduced in the United States in the nineteenth century as a shade plant for porches and arbors and as a tasty forage for cattle. Lovely, just lovely- lyBut
in the 1930’s, the U.S. Government began paying farmers to plant Kudzu as a very effective means of erosion control. The deep rooting vine was also planted along railroad cuts and riverbanks to “hold the land”. It did its work well. Only trouble was, and is, that the vine has no natural enemies in the South.
In fact it loves the South, it loves the Dixie soil, it loves the weather, the seasons are perfect, there are no enemy insects, it loves to grow and be strong, it loves saying Vail", it loves grits and barbecued pork, it loves cornbread and gravy and catfish and Hank Williams and New Orleans
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