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Bloody bamboo, and a question of poison
IronSquirrel
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Will upload a picture in a second- I'm 90% sure these are runners, and if it wasn't for a sadistic landscape designer who made it impossible to get to the root of a plant that ALREADY tries to make it difficult to get to the root of... I'd be able to confirm.
Anyway, customer wants it destroyed, but I'm curious, does the nature of runners or clumpers mean that you can drop roundup stump-killer (which works wonders apparently) down just one or two main-looking stems and the ones connected locally to it will also start to die ?
They're all getting chopped to knee height at the least, I'm just wondering about the number of targeted weed killer strikes I'd be making, as resources are limited.
THANKS!
And in case it matters, that picture is of an area 3.5m by 0.60, with some bamboo quite thick, but mostly garden-cane thick, and it's really bloody tall. the top of the window frame might be 6ft, and a lot of the bamboo is twice the length you can see.
Anyway, customer wants it destroyed, but I'm curious, does the nature of runners or clumpers mean that you can drop roundup stump-killer (which works wonders apparently) down just one or two main-looking stems and the ones connected locally to it will also start to die ?
They're all getting chopped to knee height at the least, I'm just wondering about the number of targeted weed killer strikes I'd be making, as resources are limited.
THANKS!
And in case it matters, that picture is of an area 3.5m by 0.60, with some bamboo quite thick, but mostly garden-cane thick, and it's really bloody tall. the top of the window frame might be 6ft, and a lot of the bamboo is twice the length you can see.
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Trolius & Cressida
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I'd chop and then use a good stump killer. It'll take several goes.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Why the heck do people plant this goddamned awful stuff. I've seen itlifting paving and breaking through the tarmac parking area at a local pub. Nightmare.
The trouble is that, unless properly contained [which is quite an effort] it rarely stays put.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
So, under the thick crust of living and dead bamboo stems, they laid down...
rocks. not tiny gravel ones that are easier with a shovel, not huge ones that I can take out with my bare hands... no, those thumb-end sized ones that are really awks.
and then underneath that... MEMBRANE.
WHY. I get membrane, use it, love the stuff. But you're planning on filling every square inch of the bed with an invasive plant that'll cover the ground in shade, AND steal all the nutrients and room in the soil, AND you're covering everything in rocks anyway.. but yeah, make it impossible for the next person who buys the property and wants to call it their own.
grr.
Trolius & Cressida
Can you poison strategically if you've limited Stumpkiller, ?
Trolius & Cressida
Unfortunately, it's never going to be easy removing it when it's like that. Too many gardening programmes gaily bung the stuff in - especially these makeover programmes. Not enough warnings IMO. Daft bits of plastic as a barrier are beyond useless.
Too many people on this forum keep suggesting it when folk want an instant screen as well.
You have my sympathy, although I expect you'd rather have my pickaxe and musclepower....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...