You have all frightened me. Last year I planted a couple of bamboo stalks.
Now I have five beautiful tall stalks. Is it too late to dig it up? Since it
has been growing so well, I have been tossing & turning at night wondering
if I should dig it up. Live in Zone 8.
Liz
Bill Nourse wrote in message
news:MOD$990926.15586@rec.gardens.ecosystems... > > Perhaps this is not the place to come to find out how to kill something, > but the bamboo in my back yard has just about got me buffaloed. > > When I bought this house 22 years ago, the previous owner had planted a > small clump of bamboo near the corner of the pool. We cut it down, dug > it up, poured gasoline on it (sorry! that was one suggestion) and did > just about everything we could think of to get rid of it. > > Every year it comes up again. It has migrated about 20 feet (moving > east) in 22 years and is now growing all around my Crape Myrtle. When I > cut it down, it leaves pungee sticks in the yard. > > I can only use so many fishing poles. Any suggestions on how to get rid > of it short of major excavation? > > -- > Charles W. ("Bill") Nourse, Ed.D., CPP > Memphis, Tennessee USA > http://personal.mem.bellsouth.net/~nourse > > "I always knew that I would look back on my tears and laugh, but I never > thought I would look back on my laughter and cry." > > -- Youssef Ali (AKA Cat Stevens) > >