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Can confirm, once rented a house with bamboo in the backyard, it’s awful awful stuff and will spread very easily The only way to keep it from moving further in
by asquabventured 5y ago
Can confirm, once rented a house with bamboo in the backyard, it’s awful awful stuff and will spread very easily
The only way to keep it from moving further into yards or gardens is to pour concrete trenches it can’t grow thru. impossible to eradicate entirely and while it’s shooting new sprouts up from the ground after its first day or two of softness starts to get more wood like and are wicked sharp easily being able to pierce through skin/clothes/shoes and cause some nasty cuts.
No one should ever plant that stuff voluntarily!
- ourmandave 5y agoIf you could borrow a couple giant pandas from the local zoo for a few days, that would be a win-win.
- throwaway09223 5y agoBamboo is fairly easy to contain- just surround the area with a 60mil thick plastic barrier. I've been growing bamboo for two decades in my yard without issue. It also won't spread beyond wet areas, so a lot of people control it simply by not watering the surrounding areas. In terms of maintenance, bamboo only shoots for a few weeks in the spring - it won't grow at all for the rest of the year. The real scourge in my yard are the weeds that grow year-round.
- asquabventured 5y agoAt least in northern Virginia it sprouted shoots all spring and summer and it was not in a wet/non draining area or an area we ever watered. Maybe different species have different growing characteristics but the one we had was awful and constantly was trying to creep from the side of the back yard into the main lawn area.
- throwaway09223 5y agoI could see it being a lot harder to contain in the south. I'm in a dry area in California and it won't grow where I don't water. There are definitely different species of bamboo. The two main categories are running and clumping. Running bamboo is the hardest to contain, with rhizomes that travel long distances. Clumping bamboo spreads slowly.
- pvaldes 5y agoCan fall to mention that bamboo shoots are edible when very young. Very good mixed with macaroni in my opinion. I would never plant bamboo in my garden in any case but if you have it, treat it like a vegetable. If it can't be cut applying a slight pressure with a potato knife is too old. Discard the hard central parts. Cook the soft parts near nodes.
- stickfigure 5y agoHere in California we have a solution: Stop watering it. Yellow starthistle, on the other hand, should be a felony.