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Bamboo Can Invade Your House
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- bell-cot 2y agoSimilar with Japanese Knotweed. And termites. And quite a few other things.
- cykros 2y agoMakes the bittersweet we're always battling back seem pretty moderate in comparison. Glad the Japanese knotweed is on the far edge of the property, on the other side of the driveway. It may get there eventually, but not until well after the house isn't my problem anymore.
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- leke 2y agoI once watched this program about a guy that grew it in an area for wood harvesting and food, and kept it in check by digging a 1 meter deep trench around the area. The trench light pruned the root system from reaching his property. I thought it was pretty clever.
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- Gys 2y agoWe have bamboo and it hardly grows. We bought it to use as potential 'building material' (to support trees and such). We bought it at a bamboo farm where they had many different species and sizes. On the farm was irrigation everywhere and even so they struggled to keep everything wet. Because as it turns out, bamboo will not grow without daily (!) getting water. It will actually rather quickly die. And indeed, the bamboo that we planted barely seems to stay alive. Even though we have some drip irrigation there. So I would search for ways to cut the water supply to the bamboo shown in the article.
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- nelsonic 2y agoVery keen on bamboo in our garden but this article is putting me off. curious if anyone on HN has experience of containing bamboo e.g: digging a trench and pouring concrete to contain it. How deep would we need to go?
- ndr42 2y agoIt depends on the species, we have Fagesia spec. (about 3m high) it is clumping not running. One of them is contained by a root barrier 1m deep, it stayed there for now 13 years, the other on is planted without a barrier and after 8 years it started "invading" the lawn - but very very slowly (about 20cm) - you just could use a spade to remove it every other year. The barrier was just a very thick and stiff synthetic canvas.
- nelsonic 2y agoVery helpful. Thanks. :-)