Had all the Help I can stand, Thanks

Took a break ……. Family emergency.

Now, the things the “Gov’mt” has already ‘helped us with’.

Dandelions
Multi-flora Rose
Crown Vetch
Love Bugs
Asian ‘ladybugs’

That is what I can think of, off the top of my head, that involves nature,

ALL were brought to this country on purpose, and all were absolute failures.

Dandelions were promoted here ……. on purpose. They are native to England, Europe and Asia; wide harvested for food (greens), medicine, and pretty flowers. Hardy, perennial, inexpensive. Here they grow rampant, and are impossible to control.

Multi-flora Rose was brought here to ‘help’ the farmer. Where it comes from, iT is considered a beautiful plant. Later used as a “living fence”. The idea was plant it along fence lines, inter-weave, and grew so thick, that no livestock could go thru it. The berries/seeds dropped straight down, and stayed on the fence line. By the time the fence itself had rotted away, the vines had taken over the ‘line’.

Here however, we have birds that will eat the berries, and spread them as the seeds pass thru their digestive system. Spreading them to a point, that they have cover entire fields. There are hundreds of thousands of acres have been ruined because of them.

Crown Vetch was yet another wonderful idea brought to the farmers of America. Hardy, perennial, very fast spreading, and the animals LOVE it. It was planted in median strips and berms of freeways, as well as MANDATORY planting for any land mined, and then ‘re-claimed’ as a method to restore the usability of the land.

Yet, for some reason, it grows different here, Our livestock HATE it, many will get sick, or die, form consuming it, and we can NOT get rid of it.

Love bugs would consume mosquitoes, and be a great help. Except they will not eat OUR mosquitoes, and we have nothing that will eat them – so they run rampant. They serve no purpose other than eating away the paint on cars when they hit them, which helps the car wash, and re-painting industry at least.

Asian Ladybugs – almost identical, except they were to eat the Aphids from out plants (which they don’t).

Next – the businesses “They” have helped us with!