A REALLY LONG VIDEO ON BAMBOO RHIZOME REMOVAL AND INSTALLING A BAMBOO BARRIER OR PRUNING TRENCH.....

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A REALLY LONG VIDEO ON BAMBOO RHIZOME REMOVAL AND INSTALLING A BAMBOO BARRIER OR PRUNING TRENCH

I THOUGHT I WOULD OFFER A SHORT DISCUSSION AND HOW TO VIDEO ON DEALING WITH INVASIVE BAMBOO. THAT SAGA OF MINE BECAME A LONG VIDEO WHICH I OFFER IN ITS ENTIRETY. I HOPE YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW.

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The easiest, most cost effective way to contain bamboo is with a trench. A pruning trench is simply a narrow, shallow trench dug around the area that you wish to allow your bamboo to grow in. A trench can be only 3″-4″ wide, enough to walk on or to give yourself enough room to work as you’re checking for rhizomes. The depth will vary depending on the type of bamboo. The trench only needs to be 12 inches deep. Trenches can be filled with sand, organic mater such as leaves, or simply left open. Twice a year early January or February and then again in the fall, check the trench for any rhizomes that may have entered it. PLEASE NOTE: You may find new rhizomes actually appearing during the summer as well — like I have! Using a spade, work around the trench, pushing your spade into the trench, severing any rhizome you feel, then lifting the spade and pushing it back in next to where the last one was removed. The amount of time spent per year on pruning will of course depend on the size of your planting and type of bamboo. It shouldn’t take too many hours in a year to maintain. Residual rhizomes beyond the pruning trench on your property can and will send up vertical shoots ALL SUMMER! I check my property near the trench area every week and digging up where vertical shoots appear — I then cut the rhizomes with a Sawzall, remove then and replace soil. It takes less then 10 minutes each time. Eventually the residual rhizomes will die, as long as you remove all vertical sprouts. I know this is a fact — because when digging out younger rhizomes — I have found several dried up and brittle older rhizomes dead underground. Much like an orchard or rose garden, a bamboo grove will take some maintenance, but the rewards are well worth the effort.

AN UPDATE ON BAMBOO RHIZOMES: As far as their growing depth, in my experience, they travel anywhere from 1 inch deep, breaking up soil visibly to 8 inches deep. However, I have seen them go deeper to travel under a big tree root. And as far as rhizomes only putting up shoots part of the year...wrong. Here in North Carolina, USA. I have seen new vegetative growth ALL YEAR LONG.

And here's a scary fact: some say a rhizome will die without sending up and utilizing above ground shoots after 3 years or so. Not true!! We had an area of all rhizomes removed and bamboo barrier installed in 2017. Soil was brought in and leveled with machinery. Just a few months ago, in 2023, 6 years later, my wife saw a new shoot, 3 feet beyond barrier and rock wall, coming up. I panicked thinking barrier had failed. But no -- I dug up a 6 year old, 5 foot long living rhizome. One end near shoot still had solidity and life. Other end was fibrous and soft and dead. Go figure. It was accidentally left behind by landscapers and laid dormant for 6 freaking years!! Now that's what I call invasive!! So don't believe everything you read on the internet about invasive bamboo species. They follow one rule and one rule only; survival and domination.

They say a monoculture of any species is susceptible to disease and, therefore, extinction. Bamboo has been a very successful monoculture laughing at that idea for countless millennia. And they stay green and leafy ALL year at my house. Older bamboo shoots eventually die, but the monoculture just keeps on spreading like Nature's juggernaut.

Phyllostachys atrovaginata prefers full sun to partial shade. More sunlight typically leads to better culm color and growth.


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