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12-07-2005, 04:43 AM

Me wrote:
This, in my case, has done NOTHING on my variety.. in fact.. I
literally cut each one with a pair of scissors and painted/dropped
Roundup in the stalk... no dice...

About the next thing I'm going to try is thick black plastic covered
for 2 to 3 years...

Kevin

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:24:32 GMT, "Travis"
wrote:

wrote:
Just put the Round-Up on the cut end of the culm. It will
not kill anything else.

Ok, I assume Round-Up is some kind of liquid weed killer?

So I will cut the stalks and then spray the Round-Up on the part
still left in the ground?

What about all the roots that run across the ground?
What do I do about those?
Since they are below the ground, the spray wont get to it, and
I am not cutting them, I am cutting the stalks that grow
upward, not laterally.

Thanks

Paint the Round-Up on the cut culms immediately after you cut
them. Round-Up kills everything that is why you paint it on
instead of spraying it. The Round-Up translocates to the
rhizomes (roots) and kills them. Glyphosate is the generic name
for Round-Up.

If you cut the culms with scissors you do not have bamboo.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5