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Keeping bamboo in it's place ?
I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my
neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Thanks Conor http://www.gardennut.com |
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Conor Redmond wrote:
I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Buy clumping or install a barrier. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:10:29 -0700, Conor Redmond
wrote: I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Thanks Conor http://www.gardennut.com Bamboo makes a GREAT barrior, but unless you want ENEMIES living next door, at a minimum, put a bamboo barrior along the fence line. This barrior needs to be at least 22" deep, and keep 2" above ground level because it WILL go up and over, and 2" will at least make it visible and easy to trim. If you don't want it coming up everwhere in YOUR yard, put the barrior up on your side too. You can rent a trencher for under $100 that'll do the job and it's VERY worth it 5 years down the road. Some may suggest you just "cut it with the mower" but you will end up with stubby little hard things in your yard. REMEMBER THIS RULE OF THUMB: Bamboo can run UNDERGROUND as far as it is tall before popping up. But if it 'pops up' and you mow it, add that distance AGAIN from that shoot point.. With a little thought before planting, you'll LOVE the bamboo for as long as you live there. james, port orchard, zone 8a (black, yellowgrove, Dolcis, and nigra henon) |
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RainLover wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:10:29 -0700, Conor Redmond wrote: I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Thanks Conor http://www.gardennut.com Bamboo makes a GREAT barrior, but unless you want ENEMIES living next door, at a minimum, put a bamboo barrior along the fence line. This barrior needs to be at least 22" deep, and keep 2" above ground level because it WILL go up and over, and 2" will at least make it visible and easy to trim. If you don't want it coming up everwhere in YOUR yard, put the barrior up on your side too. You can rent a trencher for under $100 that'll do the job and it's VERY worth it 5 years down the road. Some may suggest you just "cut it with the mower" but you will end up with stubby little hard things in your yard. REMEMBER THIS RULE OF THUMB: Bamboo can run UNDERGROUND as far as it is tall before popping up. But if it 'pops up' and you mow it, add that distance AGAIN from that shoot point.. With a little thought before planting, you'll LOVE the bamboo for as long as you live there. james, port orchard, zone 8a (black, yellowgrove, Dolcis, and nigra henon) From the ABS web site. http://www.americanbamboo.org/FAQ.ht...ereIDontWantIt -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
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Travis wrote:
RainLover wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:10:29 -0700, Conor Redmond wrote: I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Thanks Conor http://www.gardennut.com Bamboo makes a GREAT barrior, but unless you want ENEMIES living next door, at a minimum, put a bamboo barrior along the fence line. This barrior needs to be at least 22" deep, and keep 2" above ground level because it WILL go up and over, and 2" will at least make it visible and easy to trim. If you don't want it coming up everwhere in YOUR yard, put the barrior up on your side too. You can rent a trencher for under $100 that'll do the job and it's VERY worth it 5 years down the road. Some may suggest you just "cut it with the mower" but you will end up with stubby little hard things in your yard. REMEMBER THIS RULE OF THUMB: Bamboo can run UNDERGROUND as far as it is tall before popping up. But if it 'pops up' and you mow it, add that distance AGAIN from that shoot point.. With a little thought before planting, you'll LOVE the bamboo for as long as you live there. james, port orchard, zone 8a (black, yellowgrove, Dolcis, and nigra henon) From the ABS web site. http://www.americanbamboo.org/FAQ.ht...ereIDontWantIt Thanks I was a little scared by the revelation that the underground runners could go laterally as far as they could vertically. I appreciate the Excellent advice though. Is there any local places in Seattle where you can pick up some shoots. I generally haven't seen it in any of the nurseries. Cheers Conor http://wwww.gardennut.com |
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"Conor Redmond" wrote in message news Travis wrote: RainLover wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:10:29 -0700, Conor Redmond wrote: I'd like to plant some bamboo to help act as a screen between me and my neighbours house. But I've heard Bamboo is fairly prolific and once it's planted it will start to slowly invade the rest of the garden. Is there any way to help ensure that the bamboo can be kept in just one area ? Thanks Conor http://www.gardennut.com Bamboo makes a GREAT barrior, but unless you want ENEMIES living next door, at a minimum, put a bamboo barrior along the fence line. This barrior needs to be at least 22" deep, and keep 2" above ground level because it WILL go up and over, and 2" will at least make it visible and easy to trim. If you don't want it coming up everwhere in YOUR yard, put the barrior up on your side too. You can rent a trencher for under $100 that'll do the job and it's VERY worth it 5 years down the road. Some may suggest you just "cut it with the mower" but you will end up with stubby little hard things in your yard. REMEMBER THIS RULE OF THUMB: Bamboo can run UNDERGROUND as far as it is tall before popping up. But if it 'pops up' and you mow it, add that distance AGAIN from that shoot point.. With a little thought before planting, you'll LOVE the bamboo for as long as you live there. james, port orchard, zone 8a (black, yellowgrove, Dolcis, and nigra henon) From the ABS web site. http://www.americanbamboo.org/FAQ.ht...ereIDontWantIt Thanks I was a little scared by the revelation that the underground runners could go laterally as far as they could vertically. I appreciate the Excellent advice though. Is there any local places in Seattle where you can pick up some shoots. I generally haven't seen it in any of the nurseries. Cheers Conor http://wwww.gardennut.com Conor Here is a link to dealers in the PNW: http://agsyst.wsu.edu/bambiz.htm Here is a link to ABS member sources in Washington: http://www.bambooweb.info/ShowFilter...l=-1&Button=GO Bill http://www.bambooweb.info |
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Yeak I just came back from the neighbors from doing my spring rhizome
severing. I kicked over a few yellowgroove shoots fat as half dollars and stomped a sharpened spade through the turf where they had escaped to about every foot or so. The shoots are pretty tasty and the neighbor doesn't go pesticidal with turf chemicals. While I was there I dropped a little mushroom compost on the spots along the way in her lawn that needed help. Now if there was a perennial bed there I probably would have annoyed her but it's just turf grass and we get along pretty well. You have 2 choices, contain it or control it, mine just happened to find a few cracks in a retaining wall so I went to control it. |
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i totaly agree with ya travis...clumping the best way to go.i just wish
there was a tall clumpers with big dia.and as cold hardy as the running boo. i was at the huge moso grove in sliverbrook cematary- anderson,sc yesterday and in one of the two spots moso was growing it was invadeing and poping up the many grave site that the moso is planted next to.not a nice thing..i can see it going to be tough+costly for them to remove thos rhizones+clums... im growing moso and green groove and letting it just grow ,but i got 8 acres with a lawn mower and chainsaw should i need it which i doubt.... usda-Z-6 sunset-Z-36 chele(michele-marie) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eastcoastbamboogroup/ n/e tn mtns |
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bamboo girl wrote:
i totaly agree with ya travis...clumping the best way to go.i just wish there was a tall clumpers with big dia.and as cold hardy as the running boo. i was at the huge moso grove in sliverbrook cematary- anderson,sc yesterday and in one of the two spots moso was growing it was invadeing and poping up the many grave site that the moso is planted next to.not a nice thing..i can see it going to be tough+costly for them to remove thos rhizones+clums... im growing moso and green groove and letting it just grow ,but i got 8 acres with a lawn mower and chainsaw should i need it which i doubt.... It is very helpful when replying to a message to quote some or all of the previous post so one does not have to set their newsreader to display read messages to see what you are talking about. I don't have 8 acres but my house is on a corner lot and one of my neighbors lot is below mine with a rockery the other neighbor is far from my bamboo so control is not an issue for me. Nearly all of my bamboo is of the running type. I do have 3 clumpers and 2 ground covers. I hope to one day be engulfed. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
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