What's growing? or evading your place, i'm fighting BAMBOO

[Foxbat]

This thread, like bamboo, just keeps coming back to life!

 

[(((Garyd)))]

This thread, like bamboo, just keeps coming back to life!

It's just like Bamboo it sleeps, and popped up again, here is me in this pic holding a bamboo that was only 6 weeks old, I just cut, it would have grown some more in a week, and then stop

 

[navychop]

Sell it to a wood flooring company. Speak Chinese?

 

[(((Garyd)))]

Sell it to a wood flooring company. Speak Chinese?

It's gone, it's cost me enough in damages, 200 x 200 of top soil gone, had to have a machine in to move huge rocks and tree stumps it grew into

 

[(((Garyd)))]

That's AL, who a friend who helped me rip it out top pic is back of stone wall, I almost lost

 

[(((Garyd)))]

Sell it to a wood flooring company. Speak Chinese?

I gave some to a friend who is from Japan, beats me what he did with it, but he said the crap grows there, but they have bugs that eat it, so mother nature controls it

 

[(((Garyd)))]

 

[(((Garyd)))]

 

[Peter Parker]

When you use water for drinking from your well, and the bamboo is near your well, if not almost over it, it would kill your drinking water forever, and You could not even sell your house.
So that's not a great idea here, you rip it out in Nov, you let the cold freeze the baby roots

Wow that post was almost 4 years old. In any event I never advocated it. I was actually responding to another post that receommended it.

 

[Foxbat]

Since this is supposed to be the "What's Cooking" Forum, I will admit that I do enjoy Bamboo shoots in some Chinese dishes.

Best of luck, Gary! Like your sig says, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" Sounds like your Bamboo ordeal thread...

 

[mdonnelly]

So, do you still have that issue?

No, it's still there. I don't want to use the chemicals on it because I have a euonymous shrub there that I use as a privacy screen.

 

[nelson61]

Roundup and keep your mouth shut. Who me?

 

[FTA4PA]

When I saw this video I thought of you Gary and all the trouble you had with this stuff.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFR2y2nBuK8

 

[harshness]

Some kudzu, blackberries, or the right kind of ivy should choke that right out.

 

[dishstaller]

A couple years ago we went to the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville, FL and I noticed the bamboo was coming up everywhere. I talked to the guy who maintains the grounds and he said it was a constant battle.

 

[harshness]

As navychop suggests, one should only plant domesticated "clumping bamboo" but that's water under the bridge. Glyphosate is the only real solution that won't take decades to accomplish, but its use near aquifers isn't to be taken lightly.

Native bamboo is strictly a forestation alternative.

 

[dishstaller]

As @navychop suggests, one should only plant domesticated "clumping bamboo"

That must be what a customer had at his place who I did some work for last week. Big clump of bamboo and I asked him if he had trouble controlling it and he said no....he just put a barrier around it and it stays inside it.

 

[(((Garyd)))]

That must be what a customer had at his place who I did some work for last week. Big clump of bamboo and I asked him if he had trouble controlling it and he said no....he just put a barrier around it and it stays inside it.

Even that one sucks and hard to tell which is which for 5 years I won my battle Andy this is me fighting it.
View: https://youtu.be/EyVBkG6mWns?si=jtkneXjwXBtqS8lH

 

[(((Garyd)))]

As navychop suggests, one should only plant domesticated "clumping bamboo" but that's water under the bridge. Glyphosate is the only real solution that won't take decades to accomplish, but its use near aquifers isn't to be taken lightly.

Native bamboo is strictly a forestation alternative.

If you use well water, you will poison your well water.

I have a well and no city water where I live.

Look how bad it is: at high noon, I cut down about 10 shoots that were 18 inches high; at that point, they're very soft—whack, down they go.

The next day, I went out at high noon and they had regrown to 18 inches. If I had not seen the dead ones, I would have thought I was crazy; this was in the middle of June.

Next, I took a shovel and tried to dig one out—zero luck, it was all roots.

Next, I got my pressure washer out and pressure-washed about 3–5 plants, and then I saw my nightmare: all the plant roots were connected like a chain-link fence lying on the ground.

I called my old buddy up: "Please help me rip them all out." He did. It started with 3 plants; at that point, it was now 300 plants over a 250x250 area. It got under huge rocks, under my stone wall, and broke my sidewalk. He only charged me for his gas to run the backhoe. I say it's the only way; late Nov. is best. Freeze the baby roots.

 

[navychop]

She was right. You shouldn't be doing that. Not even way back when, when rocks were soft and you entered High School.

Now, how much of your being all stove up today canya attribute to the Devil's Weed?