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I have heard the only way to really get rid of it is to burn it out. Sort of like kudzu or something.
Not necessarily. You need 1.) Time, patience and muscle 2.) A good pick axe. 3.) Round Up.
When you see the fresh sprouts coming up, use the point on the pick axe to begin digging the root up. Dig as much as you can. Chop up anything that you cannot physically pull out of the ground. Then douse it with Round Up and keep returning to douse again.
Eliminate and work your way slowly towards the main growth area. It took me three years to get rid of it. It required a lot of monitoring and vigilance and repeated attacks on the "network."
Interesting, but I will stick with perhaps one concrete planter's worth.
I had mine in an old wine barrel. It was great when the bamboo started poking runners through the cracks in the wood. I also say it on a concrete slab to keep it from getting out of control.
I found some that grows in bunches.I'm going to give it a shot at transplanting some this Saturday.I need a barrier and I hate fences.I may hate bamboo sometime in the future also.But I'm will to take the chance.Its going in a place far away from anything important.
I wonder what ours is?
It is about 6 feet tall now, was planted before we moved in (a year ago).
It has not spread at all. I'd take a pic and post it, but my kid has borrowed the camera for a couple weeks.
Ours too is not in a place we care much about, we have natural vegetation in the common area between our house and the neighbor's, but I would not want that common area to become all bamboo.
I have a major water problem that just won't dry up at the back of my 3 acres of land. I live at the top of the hill next to the road and at the back of my house starts the drop off slope to the bottom. Then back an acre to a pasture.
When they cleared the land for the pasture it was the next few years I saw their water runoff dumping into my land.
It's now swampy and even in summer won't dry up. Someone said bamboo would help if I planted it at the back at the fenceline...to help prevent water from coming in and it would soak up all the water.
I have a major water problem that just won't dry up at the back of my 3 acres of land. I live at the top of the hill next to the road and at the back of my house starts the drop off slope to the bottom. Then back an acre to a pasture.
When they cleared the land for the pasture it was the next few years I saw their water runoff dumping into my land.
It's now swampy and even in summer won't dry up. Someone said bamboo would help if I planted it at the back at the fenceline...to help prevent water from coming in and it would soak up all the water.
Bad idea?
Bamboo will drink up the water but you have to keep an eye on it or it will take over the place. Thining it out is a pain. It's sturdy stuff and grows underground and suddenly springs up to 8' or so. It grows very quickly after it germinates.
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