An old and very annoying weed is popping-up and overgrowing property across Georgia-Carolina.

Homeowner Dale Bridges has been fighting a battle since she bought this Augusta home more than seven years ago.

"It was coming over. It would be here if I didn't do something. Overnight, it can grow a foot or more," Bridges said.

She's talking kudzu...
A weed brought to American from Japan in the 1920's to help curb erosion. Now the weed has overgrown Bridges' property and has already cost her hundreds of dollars in
maintenance and it won't go away.

"It keeps coming back. It's very prolific and you just have to keep cutting it and spraying it, it's hard," Bridges said.

"It's been an epidemic. It's a very fast grower. They say it grows one to three feet a day," landscaper Tracy Davis said.

Davis is the man charged with removing the weeds from the piece of property behind the Surrey Center. Two weeks ago he tried to kill it, now it's back.

"It will kill trees, plants, bushes. Whatever it grows over the top of, it will kill," Davis said.

Experts say there's only one way to kill the Kudzu and it doesn't involve a weed eater.

"You can spray it with roundup and it's very effective, but it's one of those things you're going to have to do repeatedly over and over again. You're not going to do it once and be finished with it," Davis said.

"You have to keep spraying it and cutting it to keep it down. It's an ongoing project," Bridges said.

Davis says if you notice the weed growing in your yard, try to rip it out immediately since it can grow several feet in one day.

If the property is overgrown, try spraying a weed killer like round-up or weed-be-gone. But killing it completely will be a very difficult task.