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Subject: Re: Bamboo
From: "Liz Hart" <lhhart@mindspring.com>
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 99 17:46:53
Message-ID: <MOD$991006.20810@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
References: <MOD$990926.15586@rec.gardens.ecosystems>



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)
>
>