Bamboo Blues.....

[hobbyfarm]

MotorSeven,

Why would you want to kill it?
If I were you, I'd find a market for it or create a market for it. There are a bunch of things you can make with it and sell RETAIL!!
Nurseries need plant stakes, etc for example.
You are fortunate if they are good stands.
I would really think twice before removing it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[GregMVT]

One of the places you can check is with the state. Vermont has information on invasive species found in the state. I have a problem with buckthorn up here. They put on a class at a maple syrup making conferece I went to a couple of weeks ago, very informative. I would think that TN would have a similar program and you should be able to at least get some good advice on what works to get rid of it.

Greg

 

[chucko]

I had a guy at work that had some bamboo......he has been trying to kill and dig up for year....To make a log story short he just moved

 

[MotorSeven]

Hobby,

The stuff is really taking over one end of my pasture. Up on the ridges it is popping up on the trails and as i mentioned in the food plot. Sheeze, if i can find a market for it i would have a serious "orchard" of the stuff to last quite some time. If i could just control it i would be happy, but it may get the "Kudzu of the year" award if i don't slow it down.
I guess i'm lucky, my co-worker here in FL has bamboo that is 3-4" in diameter and 40' tall /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif ! You could build the bridge over the river kuwai with that stuff!

RD

 

[avorancher]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I guess i'm lucky, my co-worker here in FL has bamboo that is 3-4" in diameter and 40' tall ! You could build the bridge over the river kuwai with that stuff! )</font>

I was in Asia some years ago and they were using bamboo that was probably 8-10" in diameter. It was common to see modern 60-70 story buildings under construction and covered with bamboo scaffolding with sisal rope connections. Locals said they preferred bamboo because it would sway in the typhoon winds (not with me on it!) rather than bend and break like steel.

Unfortunately, it sounds like you have the "running" type on your property which can be particularly nasty once it gets out of control.

 

[MotorSeven]

Avorancher,

I'm headed there in a few weeks, so i will take a close look at it then. For some reason i have these strange visions of retirement:

Wake at dawn, gear up with BDU's, boots, gloves and goggles. Scurry into the bush wearing a back-pac tank full of roundup while swining a huge 4' machette. Mumble to myself as i inspect the results of the last frontal attack(new shoots popping thru the soil). Mix new potent of chemicals that also kill birds flying overhead and eats thru the tractor tires. Browse military web pages for classified radical wepons(and try and buy them on the black market). Wife constantly asking, "Honey are you OK?" Spend weeks cutting, collecting, and bundling stalks to sell to the local nursery, only to be 13th in line behind other pickup trucks full of same. Friends show up unannounced for "bamboo intervention", but can't convince me to drop the machette. Watch Caddyshack 118 times to find out what Bill Murray did wrong. Travel to remote part of Thailand in search of a rumored bamboo wasp that lays it's eggs in the root system wiping out the plant. Smuggle said wasp into Tennessee only to have it learn that the local Oak,Pine,Walnut, Hickory, etcetcetc are much better hosts and die twice as fast, accelerating the wasps brood to epidemic levels. In my twilight years i sit on the porch and stare at a solid wall of "Boo" that encapsulates my house......still mumbling, and now hearing a constant buzzing sound! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif !

Did i mention the this Bamboo stuff is bugging me slightly?

/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

RD

 

[avorancher]

Actually, I'm retired and carry a machette nearly every day.... but not for the bamboo. Nearly every plant is invasive around here, so I use it on weeds that didn't get roundup within the last week or two. I have a whole new respect for the old saying "grows like a weed".

One of the worst plants for me, other than the poison oak forest I have, is the "chocolate mint" that my wife planted in her herb garden. Been trying to get rid of that stuff for months. At least I smell good after digging up the roots.

Hey, if these are the worst things we have to worry about... it can't be all that bad!!!

 

[goaliedad]

napalm?