Message to Pennsylvania's kudzu hunters: Lots of luck!

From a Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture press release today:

"Allegheny County residents are asked by the Department of Agriculture to report any locations where Kudzu is growing under a pilot program to eradicate the invasive weed. Introduced from Asia, Kudzu is a climbing vine identified by alternating leaves, purple flowers and fuzzy brown seed pods which appear in the fall. Kudzu was added to the state's noxious weed list in 1989."

I'm inclined to believe that if it's been in the state for 17 years, it's too late to eradicate kudzu there.

As Deputy Barney Fife always admonished, "You've got nip it in the bud!" He was referring, of course, to juvenile delinquency, but the same goes for kudzu.