Attention potential viewers of this video - the advice is to cover the bamboo and starve it of sunlight. I just saved you 8 minutes that I'll never get back.

@onthedry8386

5 жыл бұрын

your dead fucking right... told me nothing

@Apexarmoryffl

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@Robocoppat

5 жыл бұрын

So what's the best thing to cover it with? My dickhead neighbor has bamboo and it started falling into my yard and BAMM I got bamboo everywhere!

@Apexarmoryffl

5 жыл бұрын

patrick mcglone Honestly I tried everything in this video and it didn’t work. The only thing that worked was cutting it all down and burning it. But even then, new sprouts will shoot up. The ONLY way to truly get rid of it is to dig it up. It’s a root system so it’ll just keep spreading and growing if you don’t.

@8marienkafer8

5 жыл бұрын

Dear lord thanks

Here in Japan, we cut the bamboo off at about 1 meter high, and leave it. This should exhaust the root system as it keeps pushing sap up the stem. Then after a year or so you can just push and pull it out of the ground. A lot of the root will have died back, but whether or not this eradicates the whole underground system, ..........? However, we chip up the green bamboo stems, which makes the best mulch, (especially for fruit trees), to get sweeter, bigger fruit, and deep, soft free draining soil. Hope this helps.

@MisterSoul99

9 жыл бұрын

Slow and Natural life Japan Thanks for that info, it is always great to learn how things are done in different places.

@MonyetG

9 жыл бұрын

MisterSoul99 Reading the title makes me laugh so hard. Have you seen bamboo videos on youtube? By the way, here in asia, bamboo grow in almost everyone's backyard. We can live without bamboo,yes we can, but its easier when they are around. Bamboos are useful, man.

@TimothyBarson

7 жыл бұрын

Do you mean you keep trimming off the stems at 1m height? Or just once?

@MisterSoul99

7 жыл бұрын

The stumps last forever, cut it close to the ground, cover it up in warm/ hot weather and they will die.

@MisterSoul99

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe you have a different variety that what I have, ours will spread so much (in time) you could not open your door.

I will testify, NEVER plant this.

I planted two clumps about 25 years ago. Last week I set half of my patch (50' x 100'?) on fire as it stood. The wind was at 15 mph and out of the south, and all ash would fall on my own land, and the road would be clear of smoke. Double Fire breaks around the area were mowed low so all was safe. The local police showed up on their own to watch the show and we yelled at each other to hear, 500' away from the blaze and fireworks. It was the biggest fire we have had in 30 years, and we do a lot of burning, working with trees and clearing land to plant out orchards. (Chestnuts, jujubes) We regularly use fire as a tool to maintain different areas for different things. Never burned bamboo down, but if it works to renew it and manage it, it is a lot of fun as well.

Black plastic as ground cover prior to starting your vegetable garden is the best way to eradicate unwanted vegetation. But it's the heat that kills the plants down to the roots, long before they die due to lack of sun light. During the hot summer months the ground only needs to be covered for a week or so and then you can remove the plastic and nothing that was previously growing there will survive. (Then til, fertilize, and start your garden) BTW, don't cover the plastic with leaves or foliage, The black color attracts more heat from the sun and kills the unwanted plants quicker.

OMGosh! Thank you so so much for sharing! We bought a house that the woman before us would dump all of her dead plants in a corner of the backyard, and I thought the same, I'll just cut it down. Well, no1 told me (But they didn't care to watch me do it, until I was finished. I guess they thought it would only span my own yard. ), that it would come back 100x's worse. Well, jokes on them now because each neighbor on either side have groves, and the 3 houses behind that span me and my 2 neighbors ALL have groves now. That's kinda funny to me, even though we've ALL now been combating this Bamboo for 14 yrs! 🤣 But also had tried everything but the backhoe idea, and plastic, so we're gonna give your plastic idea a go! I'll let you know how it works out! Wish us luck...🤞🏼.

@victoriaferrer7016

4 жыл бұрын

This is my 3rd house I bought and I never had to deal with bamboo I did the grass a month ago moved all in went today to do it and theres so many pointing stumps omg

@theyrecomingtogetyoubarbar7007

4 жыл бұрын

@@victoriaferrer7016 OH I KNOW!! It's SO fast!! I've found that as long as they still have the sheaths on them, even when like 5ft tall, you can still push them over at the ground with your foot because that sheath stays on until the stalk hardens. When the sheaths fall off, they're hard as bricks...lol. They're soft enough, you can just mow right over top of them thank goodness. Good luck to you! 🤞🏼

@theyrecomingtogetyoubarbar7007

4 жыл бұрын

@@victoriaferrer7016 Oh...I meant to tell you too that my neighbor got rid of a patch 3ftx20ft with a sawzall in no kidding 30 min with family making a burn pile while he cut. I'm getting one of those!

@illegallyblonde232

3 жыл бұрын

M43 tractor supply ..kills it

@theyrecomingtogetyoubarbar7007

3 жыл бұрын

@@illegallyblonde232 Thank you so much for sharing that! Really...👍🏼👏🏼

I'm so glad that you shared that hot tub picture. Thank you so much!!!

Thanks so much for this video!!! I have a 40 Ft wide mini forest in my backyard....my neighbors have it on their side of the property line as well. This video gives me HOPE!!!! Thank You!

Just like others I came on here looking for options to control my bamboo. Glad the black plastic sheeting worked because that's what I was considering. I've already painstakingly cut all of it down but now little sprouts are appearing. Going to cover the area with a big tarp and hope it works like you described!

@darrylmurray2261

5 жыл бұрын

How did it work two years later...B^ )

@nancybeaton

4 жыл бұрын

So did it work? Would like to know. Thanks.

@carrot64954

4 жыл бұрын

How did it worked?

@philoudude

3 жыл бұрын

if you dont answer you most likely got staprd by the boo 🤣

@klmbuilders5385

3 жыл бұрын

Well, like the video said, it eradicated the growth where I put the tarp but this stuff grows underground and it just pops up in other places. I'm now controlling it by kicking down the shoots when they show up. So far it's keeping it confined to an area I can live with. You know the saying, "Life will find a way"? It's true!

He gets to the point at 4:40. You're welcome.

About twenty years ago a previous owner of our place (get this), a biologist, thought it would be nice to have bamboo. I began to attempt to eradicate it three years ago. I followed your regimen exactly. The result is that I daily have a new crop of sprouts all over, and each day I cut them down. I can't do any landscape work because renegades are sprouting up 50 feet from the original grove among desirable plants. I'll try your method. I have no choice. Pray for me!

I had snow and ice hanging down from a second story roof, and needed to knock it off, so I went out back to the bamboo grove, found a thirty footer that keeled over, and used it to sweep off the ice dam from afar. Came in handy for that; strong yet light enough to swing around easily. Also used it as a replacement brace for a broken turn signal stalk on my motorcycle; it's neat because you can get whatever diameter you want since it progressively grows thick at the base to thin at the top.

@pellyhardin4053

2 жыл бұрын

Don't ever let anybody put bamboo anywhere around your property

thank you for this. What a genius idea and you showed it works. I needed this. You saved my back yard and possibly my house 😅

Aloha from a Maui Native....we have a bamboo forest, and half of Maui on the Hana side is toast, all bamboo. My best friend and I spent the day designing a sweet little food forest garden, yoga area, and shaded seating area today, until we realized her bamboo hedge had other plans. Plans that no amount of poison would change. Now, we are considering pots, decks, hugel culture beds...& crying we are laughing so hard. The magnitude of the problem was clear: Over 297,000 views of this video!

Been fighting it for 15 years in Columbia SC. Sledge hammer and or pick ax gets out stalks from after cutting. Here bamboo has a growth spurt in spring and more after a rainy period. Have to cut everything that grows up. Kick over new sprouts once or twice a day. (It's called the cane walk.) Key is to stop photosynthesis. All stalks in the colony feed each othet thru the root system. Even cut stalks will make bamboo 'bushes'. Cut these with shingle cutter (hook blade). Bamboo is supernaturally strong. Be careful. Respect it. I once broke a finger against it cutting it. Stuff will push up thru just about anything. It is pretty but if you want it in your yard, get bunching type bamboo, not the running type, which is the kind everyone hates . Bunching is also prettier and does not invade. Roger on This Old House did a segment about it on an episode once. My condolences to those with running type bamboo. Almost as bad as getting cancer.

I have the same issue and I live in central NC. I have used the box blade on my tractor to try and pull some up. It is taking over some of my driveway. I do not have a backhoe, but may consider hiring someone. After that, I can cover it with plastic. Thank you for your video.

I cut it down and dug up as many roots as I saw. A few weeks later sprouts came up in several areas.I read it has to have some green on the sprout to take anything down to the roots. I put a few drops of gas on the sprouts. Its been 5 years, no more bamboo anywhere in my yard.

In China we pour cement on them, and build expensive follies that nobody uses.

@kevinmencer3782

3 жыл бұрын

Bamboo can grow through concrete. It'll take longer, but I've seen it happen.

That's just what I was going to recommend, thick, 6mil or thicker, black plastic. Good job and great video! Then, after you kill it with the black plastic, pull up the black plastic and cover the ground with several layers of cardboard or about 4 or 5 layers of newspaper, and then wood chip mulch, which you can get free from companies cutting down trees. Put the wood chips down at least four inches thick. Use 4"x4" (actually 3-1/2" square) or 6"x6" (actually 5-1/2" square) timbers as thickness guides so you do not put it down too thin in areas. This will assure no surviving roots re-sprout and will decompose eventually into dirt.

Great video, straight talking and funny too! Nice to hear it delivered that way.

makes good fishing poles, caught my first fish on one.

You're right on. I went through the same process - cut it down, sprayed RoundUp on the re-sprouts, then cut another grove down and painted straight RoundUp on the stumps. Ran a continuous war against the re-sprouts. Four years later I seem to have won the wars and now have areas covered with dead bamboo stumps. I'm renting a mini excavator in a week or two to remove the stumps and rhizomes. Should have done that years ago! The good news is that the bamboo has converted hard, sticky clay into friable soil great for gardening. I still love bamboo, for all the reasons you stated. But, Not In My Back Yard!

@melodyvoss

2 жыл бұрын

How did that work out for you with the excavation?

@pat20905

2 жыл бұрын

@@melodyvoss The excavator worked great... in less than eight hours I dug up all the massed rhizomes. (Playing with the excavator was a side benefit). There was a lot og manual labor left to do, moving the dug-up stuff to a big pile in the back of out lot. It'll slowly decompose, probably take 20 yrs!. I paid $500 to rent the excavator, saving me hundreds of hours with a pick ax.

@pat20905

2 жыл бұрын

Also, for a couple of years after digging it all out, it was easy but necessary to immediately dig out any new shoots. And I saved one large pot of black bamboo, now on the deck.

@computerweenie

11 ай бұрын

I did the same thing you did and finally got rid of the bamboo but it was a painstaking task. Several years later I sold that house and a landscaper wanted to put bamboo in the corner of the back yard. He said that he would bury it in containers. I told him on no uncertain terms that I would never allow bamboo to be introduced to another one of my properties.

Lol,, dude those pictures where hilarious!!

I like your idea of using black ground cover. I will try it. I am in the process of digging up my "bamboo garden" will a Maddox then with a tiller. It is to soon to tell if this work.

Thanks!--we have a bamboo problem in NYC. Every 15 feet is a new neighbor and the neighbor with the bamboo is selling. They didn't plant it either--I think the previous people did. I found one 9 foot shoot in my yard, Cut it, and now I found another 9 footer 6 feet to the right..on it's way to the next neighbor. Oy veh (as we say here). I'll try your solution.

This was very helpful will definitely try the starvaton.

i seem to control mine to wear i want it to grow!! use to grow out into the yard every yr and id just mow it , now it seems to grow the other way like it knows it wont last going towards the yard... going to try to grow it in boxes around my new patio im putting in this spring..hope it works

And I really like your pictures of presentation. I hope that I can get your information of those bamboo, thank you

Thanks for the great tips!

Thanks you saved me from ton of work

Our neighbor planted Bamboo on our property line. A few years later it has killed all the Pine trees that were almost tall enough to provide coverage. We had to dig a trench and put down a plastic barrier to keep it off our property.

thanks I'm going to try the black pastic with round up under it .I live in upstate N.Y.

if in spring you just go out and look for the new shoots growing out in rows you can dig down to find the runner and pull it up going as far back as you want then cut the runner off that will keep it from spreading, i do it every spring and its worked well for me.

Good information, thank you for sharing!

You didn't have to show us the pic of Rosie O'Donnell!!

@prepperdaddydavis1745

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel S. AGREED lol wtf it caught me off guard and I literally flinched

@mfuji02

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel S. her face needs to be bagged -_-

@ihiaama5

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel S. Rosie unchained..As in throw a cat in with her. Wait...Not a good comparison. She's definitely not "Mans best friend"

@UberAV

5 жыл бұрын

The Rosie pic was dead on!

@eriknelson432

5 жыл бұрын

O'Dummy was necessary to demonstrate just how friggin' hard it is to get rid of bamboo. Can we cover her with a tarp too?

Different Ideas: Extractigator - Uprooter(USA) - Pullbearer(Canada)- Tree Popper - Root Talon - Weed Wrench - Soak rhizome ends in bucket of Rock Salt Water or Salt Water - Pour 20% vinegar into cut bamboo to shock it plus Solarizing when it’s hot by covering with Black Plastic til it's all dead. The Uprooter or extractigator you can probably pull everything up in a weekend.

Seems like the easiest and most viable way to me. Will be trying.

Yes, bamboo is very invasive. Depending on if it's a runner variety or clumping style will determine how to contain it. To contain it in a garden some people will trench 4ft deep and pour a concrete barrier. I used to dig a trench around black bamboo and then put leaves in the trench to cover it. Every few months, you remove the leaves and cut anything that might have started to cross the trench. We like to use it for building fences.

@1d1hamby

10 жыл бұрын

Even the clumping varieties spread if they are happy.

@PaulOrientedotcom

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, the clumping styles are easier to prune out the new growth. I like to us a reciprocating saw with a long pruning blade.

@PedroReyes-pr5er

2 жыл бұрын

Do you spli it in half?.

In Daphne, Alabama, my backyard neighbor planted bamboo that (of course) started to run away into my yard and others. Eventually, they had to have it all cut down, filling a dump truck, but it was not dead, and started to come back. I cleared my yard and fence line by saturating the cut stalks and soil with salt. 2 years later, still no bamboo.

@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial

Жыл бұрын

With all that salt, little else will grow either. The soil pH and microbiome has been ruined.

@Oldman808

Жыл бұрын

Salt will last for years and kill everything. A bare patch of dirt isn’t desirable. A very stupid uncle-by-marriage once dumped the salty ice water from an ice cream machine into my grandmother’s front yard. The bare patch where grass wouldn’t grow lasted for decades.

This video is awesome, made me laugh and I found it insightful

@Funstuff13613

8 жыл бұрын

If only your neighbor had planted "clumping" instead of "running" bamboo huh? Shazam! Lol.

Release a panda or two to the unwanted bamboo area. They eat bamboo like no tomorrow.

@1998gst4611

6 жыл бұрын

yeah and they shit alot after eating all of them!

@pitpotdeeerste

6 жыл бұрын

1998 why are you upset with free compost ?

@yeagermcbipper9008

6 жыл бұрын

You really don't understand the VOLUME panda's have to eat, and shit out. Its a nasty white diarrhea because bambo has so little nutritional value their gut has to process it quickly and pass it out.

@punker4Real

6 жыл бұрын

then you will have a panda bear problem GLOBAL warming will take care of them though

@bhaddock9277

6 жыл бұрын

Loved the panda option. They've not too interested in breeding either so little chance of a panda population explosion to deal with. Hate to think what would keep panda numbers down if you unfortunately got the one pair of pandas in the world interested in "physical romance", elephants to surpress the pandas? You can see where this is going.

I have bamboo growing between my house and my neighbor's house. The bamboo was planted about 20 years ago and stretched about 50 yards long. I found the easiest way to get rid of it once and for wall is to dig up the stems and getting the large root out of the ground. Before refilling the hole with dirt, (because you dig up a good square foot section when you dig up the root), spray the hole with round up. This will kill the roots that were severed when you dug around the main root. I have not had any roots come up after doing this. It's a lot of work, but it gets the job done.

@hughhadfield9115

7 жыл бұрын

You probably won't have anything else grow there either.

@genevievebarker943

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughhadfield9115 roundup deactivates in soil. Only affects the plant it touches.

Thank you for your hard efforts and video, my mother use to fly out to NC every year and harvest those bamboo shoots but she's old now. ur method sounds good.

Thank you so much for this tip. My builders father planted 1 Bamboo in the back of my house because we are close to a highway. We really did not need him to do that because the forest filled out and we can hardly see it now. But we see a lot of Bamboo and I have tried everything. I will now use your tip. It has gotten into my flower beds so I guess I can cut smaller pieces for those areas. Thanks again for the tip!

Our bamboo is growing up through the black plastic. We had even put dirt on top of it. I'm going to apply glyphosate as another video suggested--putting it down inside the stalks--and then put down some more black plastic.

Thank you so much for sharing !

Fire! I was burning leaves next to a large bamboo patch I'd been trying to cut back (on Guam). I thought it was out, but the next day it was smoldering and smoking all under the bamboo. To make a long story short, I let it go on awhile (hose nearby), Bamboo died, never came back.

Well! last week I went out to the back yard - and lo and behold - the bamboo had sprouted right through the black plastic which I laid down several years ago. So it wasn't a solution for me! It is such a terribly tedious job to dig it all up -- so I put an ad on Craigslist for free bamboo roots -- with a beautiful picture (not mine lol but stock photo) -- and got four different sets of people out who were all so enthused about planting it in their back yards. After they left, though, I had to go over to the neighbor's to ask if I could finish retracing the roots from their side -- not easy at all! I expected a 10 minute job -- it was over four hours and there was still a lot of bamboo there, but I was too exhausted to finish. And then I discovered that it had gone to two other neighbors' places as well. Bad deal - that bamboo - I bought a house next to an apartment where it was planted. There seems to be no end of the grief it causes - and yet I need a certain bit of it for privacy from the apartment!

I would rake the mulch back and cover the area with black plastic and put the mulch over the plastic. I guess if the tree is new, not established you could water it at the opening but after a tree gets roots it draws moisture from the ground and not the surface. The soil is like a sponge and will draw moisture from the surrounding area.

just over the border into VA, got some bamboo (might be "giant cane"), and whenever we have a harsh winter where it gets down to about 0 degrees F, most of it freezes to death

Why would you show a picture of Rosie O'Donnell man? I almost threw up my breakfast.

Neighbor - where the bamboo originally came from - used a bobcat to get it up, two years later some still came up. Also in NC. Black plastic not an option as it's in area where grass also grows high.

I live in southeastern Massachussetts and we have bamboo all over the place but the type we have around here is absolutely worthless. The frost kills it in the winter but it comes up the following year. It grows so damn fast you can practically see it growing.

wow, so lovable bamboo plants - thanks for sharing

Clever video and informative.

Did it...worked, Thanks

I need to do this at my dad's. Thanks

Bamboo is just a large grass so after cutting it down to the ground all you needed to do was cut the grass weekly until it ran out of energy.

Since it is a vacant area and mostly covered with leaves, I just left it down. It has been down for a few years.

It's a RENEWABLE RESOURCE because it sends off new shoots even when you cut it to the ground!! Give it a few months & it will prove itself to you. I did find the idea of cutting the canes at about 3ft (or a meter) & cutting all the shoots with leaves off had caused the canes to turn brown & hard eventually. I pulled those right outta the ground a year or so later& they were dead. But not sure if they had sent rhizomes under ground to try & keep themselves alive, as one area is in a little bit of a slope & the bamboo is basically planted on top of itself (like 2 teenagers in love...lol) It's disgusting!

Some people told me to put salt on the area after you cut down the stalks it changes the soil ph or vinegar, I think if you use salt pellets like for water softeners it might work?

Cut it down then burn what you have cut when its dry on the area you cut it.After rain when any new shoots are about 1 foot high roundup at recommended mix and add a little detergent and some soluble fertilizer.You may have to repeat the roundup mix a few times but it works.Good luck

A PVC cutter makes a pretty clean cut if you are using the bamboo for projects. You can sell the poles to people that don't have there own source, for use it garden and other projects.

Thank you so very much for sharing. That is sure a simpler way and cost effective for my budget. Have a great day. I will post again to let you know how I did. ( - ;

Thank you for your info!

I was thinking of putting down that plastic and then creating a dry creek on top of it. What do you think?

I would love a bamboo Grove like this. I would go crazy with this bamboo. From fencing to trellises to archery equipment. Bows and arrows. To furniture. Flooring etc. I am actually looking to grow this because where I'm from you don't find proper bamboo. Only river cane here and there. But to buy this stuff is expensive here in South Africa. So I want to grow it. I will create a border with concrete or something down I the ground to create a boundary so that it doesn't spread that far. However great info that can be used just I case this ever happens to me in the future if I do get it right to grow it

It's called 'sheet-mulching'. Works great almost in any case.

Check out solarizing soil videos using clear plastic. Can heat soil to over 100 degrees.

Hard to say really, I kinda covered mine and left it since it covered over with leaves and I don't notice it. I would say a couple months anyway. Roll up the plastic and if it starts to returns roll it back out.

I have a clump grove super dense about 13 feet in diameter that a friggin stump grinder is having trouble taking out. I love it around the edge of the property as it doesn't have runners and stays put, great privacy but that big grove is by the house, three times the height of my roof. I will be keeping what I can salvage for projects but mother of mouse! its a s*^tload of bamboo. I d on't think its EVER been thinned or pruned... I also don't think a stump grinder will kill the root but its doing a decent job on cutting through a grove so thick you can't fit a small hand in to it. the poles are as all braided up and twisted around each other as straight poles can possibly be. Nightmare. when they are done with the cut down/grinding I am going to dig up the root [I know there will be some left], then lay plastic over that whole area for several months as well. thanks for the black plastic tip for sure. My advice to those who love the look of it, and use it, if you plant it, for the love of pinky toes and of course roofs, prune it, top it, control it and do not plant it near your house . its prettier as a perimeter anyway

you can make charcoal with all the small branches of bamboo :)

Going to try this. Have 500 feet of road frontage about 4-6' deep in bamboo that's annoying to look at just because it's non-native and I'm afraid of it pushing further into woodland. Someone on the mountain must have planted it because all and all along the road theres probably acres.

Thanks mate a good tip

I'm gonna give this a try. I've got a couple of rolls of black plastic that came from I don't know wherewhere, some leftover project, Yeah I'm gonna give that a try.

Hello I was having a chat with my mother in law and she said, that she and her husband, who both have been working and living off the land they have and she said that they always used salt, plenty of it. I was about to try that, if it does not work I will try your method. Thanks

We have a small patch in our yard. If we lay plastic how long do we have to keep the plastic down. Have you tried a test spot to see if the bamboo starts to grow again after five years of sunlight deprivation? Please let us know, we want to address this soon. Thanks and great video.

Adopt a Panda. Those suckers can destroy bamboos like a vacuum cleaner against fine dust.

@royjonesrampage6684

7 жыл бұрын

Kalpesh Patel do they destroy ppl and where do you get a nearly extinct animal secret black market for excentric rich ppl?

@KalpeshPatel78

7 жыл бұрын

rodger so endangered maybe.. not extinct for sure. And why do you think i wrote adopt a panda and not buy a panda. I am responsible for only what I write... not what you understand dude.

I have a question for you. If you cut down the bamboo and cover the ground with Rock Salt will that kill bamboo forever? Need to get rid of it. I believe it is pushing in the tiles in my GFs Swimming pool.

Thank you very much dude excellent video

Thanks for the advice mate old jimmy Australia

how loud will they sound if cut down and put on the fire, we had lots of the smaller version here in EU but they are less than a cm in diameter they make a decent bang

how long did you have to leave the plastic on

I'm sure you don't have to keep it covered for 5 years. I left for the summer last year & one of my bamboo groves (only about 3-4 feet) was inadvertently prevented from getting direct sunlight by sun blinds overhead. It was 80 percent dead when I got back. It's still not recovered.

I’m by no means an expert here but have just paid hundreds of dollars to have a rather large to medium size stand of the clumping bamboo cut down. Had consulted the IFAS and the local extension office and was yold that my next phase is to scrape the roots. Then the next step is the application of boiling water to rhizomes that are showing and sign of life remaining. Wish me luck. 🍀 Plus am now intending on purchasing the thicker ml. plastic to suffocate the roots with. Thanks for the input. This is the kind of problem that makes one feel like village idiot for somehow allowing to get out of hand.

I sprayed mixture of glyphosfate and bindi and clover killer on the new shoots when there about two to three inches tall at a rate of thirty mls of each to four ltrs of water and dish washing liquid couple of caps, on running bamboo took twelve months.

Funny!! I'll try it, thanks.

Which plastic do you use? Landscaping fabric or plastic that doesn't let water through it?

bamboo forests are awesome, i can make so many things from bamboo

They are sooooo beautiful. We also have bamboos all around the garden and i like them so much. 😂

Interesting, I have never noticed flowers on bamboo, of course there are many varieties.

@tropicalhellesdongardenuk2991

3 жыл бұрын

bamboo flowers are minute, the plant also then dies after flowering

@broccoligirl9019

3 жыл бұрын

Because when they flower they will die soon

@clancymontagne2993

2 жыл бұрын

I'll just start a wildfire!!finito

Did you tried to remove the plastic and sees if comes back?

Looks good

Yes i like the thought of bamboo wood chips instead of chopped bark around my fig orchard

planting bamboo was the biggest mistake I ever made. It's a grass, and the fastest growing plant in the world, and it drops leaves all day every day. I tried the 20 by 20 black plastic too. The bamboo just crept all the way to the edges before growing upwards again. And in some areas it popped through the plastic. Very frustrated. I'm considering burning

@genevievebarker943

2 жыл бұрын

Not kosher but try petrol.

what about using them for making flutes? :P :D

We have a sift type here. I can't use the sidewalk every Summer until it's cut back.

I'm trying to get bamboo to create an aquaponic system and you won't believe how expensive they are. I'd say you are lucky. Bamboo is so versatile. One day you might regret getting rid of your bamboo.

We did the backhoe thing, it worked for 5 years or so then it’s growing again, impossible to get all the roots. I’m going to trim it to the ground and cover it.

Hey Mister Soul, That looks like the off ramp (Lawyers rd and 485 Mint Hill, NC), just wondering?