The arrival of warmer spring weather means one thing: it’s time to spray for the jizz berries. (Or poop berries, or vomit berries, whatever you prefer.) That’s right, the ginkgos are once again threatening to rise up and fill our nasal passages with nothing but disgusting scents all summer and fall.

Photo by julia.m This week’s spring heat wave is causing more problems than just power outages and heavy 911 call volumes. The unseasonably warm weather has also jump started the production of the dread female ginkgo fruit — better known to us as jizz berries (or vomit berries or poop berries, depending on your nasal sensibilities). Concerned about having another particularly stinky ginkgo year, the District Department of Transportation’s Urban Forestry Administration started spraying…

Photo by julia.m DCist readers had plenty of opinions about the unusually bad ginkgo season that Washington experienced last year. As the fragrant fruits fell on sidewalks and streets last autumn, ending up crushed by passersby, that familiar vomit/jizz/poop stench combo emanated from all corners of the city. But the Georgetown Metropolitan observes that at least so far, it looks like the city’s efforts to curb the female trees from producing fruit may have…

We have to concur with We Love D.C.’s brownpau that the answer to Wonkette’s inquiry from earlier this week about why downtown Washington “smells like dog-shit” right now is undoubtedly ginkgo fruit. The nasty little berries settle on city streets and sidewalks every autumn, though we admit that this year has seemed especially bad, with the mashed up fruit and accompanying stink lingering far longer than recent years. Brownpau plays scientician: The seed is encased…