So you want to plant BAMBOO?

clrosner

I have seen some beautiful Bamboo plantings in pots. A beautiful example is owned by Soli Rosade at the Rosade Nursery in New Hope, Pennsylvania. However, you don’t want to plant Bamboo in the ground to fatten up the trunks.

My next-door neighbor, a summer resident who is east of our home, planted Bamboo a few years ago and has no idea how this plant has spread this past year.

There is a space of about six inches behind my garage and another neighbor who is north of me. The bamboo has shown up between my Northern neighbor’s shed and my garage. That isn’t too bad, but look at the last picture of my northern neighbor’s deck! That is all Bamboo against the fence plus what is growing up through the deck!

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BrianBay9

Neighbors who plant bamboo without proper precautions should be shot....lol

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Victrinia_Ensor

LOL That would take care of it in a New York minute!

So by 3:31... NO MORE BAMBOO....

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cheaper and smells better than roundup...HMMMMMM...i just love the smell of diesel in the morning.....

Bruce Winter

Brian, I would insert "running" before "bamboo."

Craig Cowing

We have our own private grove of yellow bamboo on the embankment between our house and the church. This spring I dug up a clump with younger shoots that are about 1/4" in diameter. The clump is about 20" across. I have it in a large pot and am having fun watching the new shoots come up.

Craig Cowing

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clrosner

Hi Craig!
Did you get (Anita's or the church's) permission before you dug up the bamboo clump??

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rockm

LOL That would take care of it in a New York minute!

So by 3:31... NO MORE BAMBOO....


Yeah, you'd still have bamboo. It would just avoid the area you've treated. This is an extremely hard plant--if it's the "running" type--to get rid of. It can send runners fifty yards without pushing a shoot up above ground. Its shoots can puncture pavement, asphalt and other stuff to move around a yard. Cut up pieces of root re-root themselves with no problem, so chopping it up makes problems worse. Burning it off, even if local ordinances allow it, only kills the top, not the roots.

Roundup can work, but the only real way to get rid of it--once it's escaped into a landscape-- is to deny if the chance to feed its roots. Repeated mowing of the shoots, along with agressive hand application of Roundup on leaves and shoots over a period of years, is the only real way to kill it off. It is a long-term war.