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…

Image courtesy Prince of Petworth If the smell of sewage on the 800 block of Kennedy St. NW is really as bad as residents have said it is, it’s a wonder it only started making headlines this week. NBCWashington.com picked up the story after a nearby resident wrote to Prince of Petworth looking for answers. Sewage has apparently been running down the block, the smell seeping into homes and businesses, since January, the result…