• @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    Playing whack a mole with my neighbours ivy. Keeps popping up on my side of the fence. Fuck whoever brought it to Australia.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 hours ago

      I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒

      And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        Same. I have a fence that’s barely still standing now that I removed the ivy. I’ve been pulling it and spraying it for several years now. I know I’ll never win, but I’m doing my best to keep it in check. The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale. It makes me want to cry.

  • @[email protected]
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    64 hours ago

    Nah it’s pretty intent on covering the whole of England too tbh. Good for the bees in September tho ☺️

      • @Voyajer
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        117 hours ago

        English Ivy happily spreads too and will also smother natives.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 hours ago

        English ivy may grow better in Kentucky soil than Kent chalk, but I’m not familiar with that in the way I am kudzu.

    • @Death_Equity
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      137 hours ago

      Kudzu is some wild stuff, one vine tendril grows a foot a day and it kills entire forests.

    • @stupidcasey
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      127 hours ago

      Oh in that case Kakugo shiro

    • @JusticeForPorygon
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      32 hours ago

      IIRC a lot of it has at some point been sprayed with super toxic herbicide to try and kill it off.

      Don’t quote me on that though I’m just quoting a Wendigoon video from memory

    • RuBisCO
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      35 hours ago

      Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.

      • @QuantumStorm
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        35 hours ago

        I hate (and am terrified) that I understood this reference. That series is horrifying.

  • @j4k3
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    137 hours ago

    Kudzu was the last bioweapons unit of the Union army in the US civil war. It never surrendered, it is still fighting the American South, and winning the guerilla war.

  • YeetPics
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    6 hours ago

    Kudzu is Chinese arrowroot tho?

    Science uninformed memes