watching this as i pull up a patio with ryzomes as thick as ropes growing under about 7ft from the mother.... making me laugh and cry at the same time.
I feel your pain, pulling out big rhizomes is a pain in the a$$, it is quite obvious that I love bamboo, but you really need to know what you are planting and how to take car of it, the trench for instance doesn't work for all bamboos, I had to find out 🙂, it is all a learning curve.
You wanna scare your neighbors? Plant a big pot of clumping bamboo right to the the fence next to your neighbor’s yard! Shortly after planting mine, my neighbors came out with a printed article regarding the invasiveness of bamboo… I informed them that this was indeed clumping bamboo… time has gone by, the bamboo has not spread, of course… but the mint they planted on the other side of the fence… Yah, you know what it did…. Free mint for me I suppose!
I got my first bamboo last week. 24 golden goddess and 2 black bamboo. Bit obsessed with it now, DEFINITELY noticed the "horror in my neighbour's eyes" you're talking about, hahaha. Love it
Golden Goddess is a clumper as far as I know so you are good with that one, the black one is not (I am sure you know that) always remember 1st year sleeping / 2nd Year creeping / 3rd year leaping. Are you putting a barrier around it or control it with a spade?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Made my day again . I have recently bought black bamboo I was always dreaming about, then few days after went to Poland visit my mum and when I came back after 10 days surprise surprise my f... bamboo is dead ... when I asked my husband what have he done .... the answer was "nothing" ... honestly I thought you can't kill bamboo ... £40 went down the toilet 🤬
they need water, especially when it is hot, the Rhizome I pulled out in the video was was from my black bamboo, when it is hot or just dry, I water my bamboo 2x per week, and fertilize them 1 per month with some Grass feed.
Great video!😀 I recently planted a Fargesia Robusta Campbell and throught I had lost it in March as the leaves were starting to curl. It still had some new canes growing but I thought I'd lose the existing ones. So I drenched it with water a few times a week and it has bounced back very well. Think I reacted just in time!
Thank you 😊, it is amazing how much water Bamboo needs and so many people lose their plant because they don't water them enough. Glad you managed to keep your plant ,😉
I did plant two clumps of runners in a half cut 50 gallon steel barrel. They seem to be doing ok, although, maybe last year, I didn’t water them enough in the summer. I just gave them a good thinning the other day so that I could see the individual canes… visually, it looks better that way..and the bamboo’s main purpose is not for privacy, but to soften a concrete wall, and add a nice look next to my pergola… which I also planted hardy banana trees and a hardy palm….I like that look!
they are great to soften walls and hard landscaping, i really should thin mine out, I am putting that on my "to do " list because as you said it looks better that way
15 or so years ago we planted some unknown variety in cut-down drums as you did. We buried the drums halfway. Yesterday we began tearing them out and dividing them. In that time, they never once breached the barrels with rhizomes. And they were root bound to an almost comical degree. They pretty much displaced the dirt with a solid mass of roots and rhizomes. We live on an island in the Pacific Northwest and the barrels got the full brunt of the weather, but the barrels remained fully intact. We are so confident in the barrel system that we're replanting them in fresh barrels. But this time we'll remove, divide, and replant more frequently. If we had such good luck, I'm pretty confident that you will, too.
You are right and as you can see I made that mistake. Not too many rhizomes are coming through, but I need to check it all the time, but need to do that anyway because the suckers also grow over the barrier. I prefer the rhizome trench
How tall does the Arrow Bamboo grow ? I've got a plastic water tank that came out my loft, it's about 100x60 cm and 50cm deep, I'm thinking of burying it in the ground then planting bamboo in it. I want something 2 - 2.5m high really.
here it is 4 meters tall, but the plant is also 10 years old, the younger plants are 2.5 - 3 meters but will also reach 4 giving them time. you can always cut them to the size you want them to be. many people cut bamboo like a hedge.
@@jochen.allardice-greinwhat about for larger species? I’m trying to grow P atrovaginata, P parvifolia, and P iridescens which all might get to thirty feet in zone 6. Will a 45cm trench work?
@@Dollapfin out of the ones you listed I have P atrovaginata, with that one I had partly trench around it and it worked, but I also controlled it with a spade because the rhizomes were shallow. However I moved it into several containers now, for some reason I didn't trust the plant, don't ask me why it was just one of may, many, strange feelings, but while it was in the ground the trench and spade actions worked.
Good video. My neighbor planted bamboo and it is running into my yard. I'm pulling up the ryzones. when i'm done i will dig the trench as you showed in your video.
Thank you, it is a pain when people that plant running bamboo don't look after it and stop it from spreading into the neighbours garden. It should be your neighbour digging the trench (point them to my video 🤣).
I have not tried to kill bamboo so far. Every time when I wanted to get rid of the plant I did what you did, dug up the runners, as soon as you can see the canes come up, I dig them up. Sorry that I cannot be more help with this one.
@@jochen.allardice-grein FYI Darrell Luck talks in this video how to get rid of a clump of bamboo, cut the grove down, then the next year let it sprout again to full height to pull the energy from the rhizome and before it leafs out, cut the grove down again. Repeat for a couple of years and the bamboo will die without having to bring in bull dozers etc. czcams.com/video/C5Ke83_QKtk/video.html
@@evelynsouzaferreira4593 thank you so much that is a super video, I hope I will never need to use that technique :-), but I am reducing some of my bamboo I have and plant flowering trees instead, to so more for the bees, but that is another topic
The HDPE membrane usually comes in 70 or 100 cm width and you must leave at least 6 cm of the membrane to come out of the ground because the rhizomes will grow over the barrier if you put it in flush with the rest of the ground and the rest of the membrane goes into the ground. It is a shit load of digging, but once put in properly, you just need to check that the bamboo doesn’t grow over it. Also make sure that it a little V shape when you put it in so that the rhizome that hit the barrier would grow to the top. Hope this helps
The fibrous roots don’t matter and will not continue to grow once the rhizome is removed, I always leave them in, too much work to get all the roots out, BUT the rhizome needs to come out.
If you live in colder climates like me, in zone 5, you shouldn't have to worry much. I have a small yard 40' x 30' in which I grow 4 different types of running bamboo. I don't have barriers, nor trenches. Just be observant and keep an eye out for long runners. You don't even need to dig the runners out. Just sever them from the main grove. Without the main grove feeding the rhizome with continuous energy, they will die eventually. ps. Bamboo is invasive only if you allow it.
@@alwaysright6358 I have many runners that I only control with a spade, and no trench or barrier, but here I have to dig out the rhizomes because they will grow into their own bamboo plant. but yes you are right it is only invasive it you allow / ignore it
Rule #1 - Never, ever plant running bamboo. Rule #2 - If you ignored rule #1, sell your house (at night) and move to another country. Your old neighbours will hate you and the new owners will be on a mission to track you down. Rule #3 - “Clumping” bamboo can be controlled with a barrier and regular attention. If you do not regularly attend to it you will be spending hours with a crow bar, spade, mattock, and a reciprocating saw with a 32cm blade, just to cut out 1sq metre. Rule
I am with you on the rules, I particularly like #2 😂, I am just a sucker for the plant, but you reminded me that I need to get myself a reciprocating saw, so far I only ever used the Smaller tool but the saw will make it easier (still a pain in the A##). Here is a question are you living 2 just now? either running or looking? 🤔
@@jochen.allardice-grein haha I’m dealing with clumping, so just spent 10 hours cutting out 1.5sq metres, very dense root system that was at least 30cm deep. A reciprocating saw is brilliant but make sure you get 32cm (12inch) pruning blades and lots of them, they work well in combo with a flat bottomed crow bar.
@@keefrasputin634 thank you for the idea with the blade length 👍I habe so many blind handsaws because of the silica contend in bamboo, but I will get myself a saw soon, to keep the buggers in check 🙂
@@jochen.allardice-grein By the way….Good CZcams video. Not generally an interesting topic….. good to see a lighthearted approach. I share your joy of bamboo, but maintaining it can ruin your life😅
I have a carex that keeps on growing and growing, from 1 small plant I now have 50 or more planted all over the garden, pain in the arse but I like it, jane on the other hand doesn't lol
@@jochen.allardice-grein I have a clumping grass that has spread in a field that was left fallow, and when I tried to strim them down, they just wrapped around the strimmer but I have discovered that in winter after the die back I am able to strim them down and keep going back and the large ball is also cutting back. With this grass along with dock plants that have self seeded I have my work cut out. I have bamboo in pots and wanted to plant it out but have been too nervous for fear I will end up with bamboo everywhere.
I love bamboo but not enough to risk planting it here. I had every sort of plague plant in my last house's garden because of 1) idiot former owners, and 2) careless neighbors.
The problem is that people plant some stuff without doing their research, with bamboo especially, when you plant a clumping bamboo you are fine but you still need to check on it. Some of my neighbours think I am that idiot, but I keep them in check 😉
If your neighbors saw what you're doing to contain the bamboo they might appreciate more how much effort you've put into providing beauty smartly. Yes, there is a lot of research to do. I enjoy your videos. Free instruction is always a good thing!
Been fighting the neighbor's bamboo coming up in my yard/gardens and through stone walls since I bought my house. Am older and now unable to keep up due to health problems and it's taking over. Hate, hate, hate bamboo.
I completely understand the way you feel, and while I love bamboo I am on your side. Clearly your neighbours should have researched what they are planting and they should be responsible to take care of that. All Culms ( the bamboo canes) are connected like tree branches, like a network, so if anything could interrupt the network, it will all collapse and die. I really feel for you, there is a way to get rid of bamboo but it would mean your neighbours kill off their plant as well. It will take a few years, but does work without chemicals.
If you can mow your lawn, you can control any bamboo coming up on your side. Bamboo typically only shoot during spring or early summer. New shoots are very soft and brittle. You can snap them off with your fingers, kick them, or mow them down. I have gone to great lengths to protect my bamboo during shooting season because of how fragile they are. But if you let them finish shooting/growing, don't complain and whine after the fact.
Having done all that mowing, kicking, snapping, roots still travel. They're an inch in diameter and come up in the middle of flower beds to sprout again. Since you're always right I'll assume you know everything but you're not experiencing what I am experiencing. Glad you love your bamboo. @@alwaysright6358
watching this as i pull up a patio with ryzomes as thick as ropes growing under about 7ft from the mother.... making me laugh and cry at the same time.
I feel your pain, pulling out big rhizomes is a pain in the a$$, it is quite obvious that I love bamboo, but you really need to know what you are planting and how to take car of it, the trench for instance doesn't work for all bamboos, I had to find out 🙂, it is all a learning curve.
I love it! Not only the funniest but the most informative YT video on bamboos in my Bamboo Crisis research evening.
Thank you so much and I am glad you liked it 😊
This guy made my bamboo problem fun. Nice video!
Thank you so much, ☺
This video gets my highest recommendation. So informative and entertaining!
Thank you so much 😊
You wanna scare your neighbors? Plant a big pot of clumping bamboo right to the the fence next to your neighbor’s yard!
Shortly after planting mine, my neighbors came out with a printed article regarding the invasiveness of bamboo… I informed them that this was indeed clumping bamboo… time has gone by, the bamboo has not spread, of course… but the mint they planted on the other side of the fence… Yah, you know what it did…. Free mint for me I suppose!
Why did they grow mint?
😂😂😂
I have raspberry sprouting up all over my field.
What a delightfully camp gentleman. 🎉
Thank you 😊
I got my first bamboo last week. 24 golden goddess and 2 black bamboo. Bit obsessed with it now, DEFINITELY noticed the "horror in my neighbour's eyes" you're talking about, hahaha. Love it
Golden Goddess is a clumper as far as I know so you are good with that one, the black one is not (I am sure you know that) always remember 1st year sleeping / 2nd Year creeping / 3rd year leaping. Are you putting a barrier around it or control it with a spade?
Hi Jochen, thanks for your informative video! Your humor is very funny as well!
Hi, thank you so much
Thanks for the info and the laughs! 😂
Thank you, and you are very welcome 😉
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Made my day again .
I have recently bought black bamboo I was always dreaming about, then few days after went to Poland visit my mum and when I came back after 10 days surprise surprise my f... bamboo is dead ... when I asked my husband what have he done .... the answer was "nothing" ... honestly I thought you can't kill bamboo ... £40 went down the toilet 🤬
they need water, especially when it is hot, the Rhizome I pulled out in the video was was from my black bamboo, when it is hot or just dry, I water my bamboo 2x per week, and fertilize them 1 per month with some Grass feed.
Great video!😀 I recently planted a Fargesia Robusta Campbell and throught I had lost it in March as the leaves were starting to curl. It still had some new canes growing but I thought I'd lose the existing ones. So I drenched it with water a few times a week and it has bounced back very well. Think I reacted just in time!
Thank you 😊, it is amazing how much water Bamboo needs and so many people lose their plant because they don't water them enough. Glad you managed to keep your plant ,😉
I did plant two clumps of runners in a half cut 50 gallon steel barrel. They seem to be doing ok, although, maybe last year, I didn’t water them enough in the summer.
I just gave them a good thinning the other day so that I could see the individual canes… visually, it looks better that way..and the bamboo’s main purpose is not for privacy, but to soften a concrete wall, and add a nice look next to my pergola… which I also planted hardy banana trees and a hardy palm….I like that look!
they are great to soften walls and hard landscaping, i really should thin mine out, I am putting that on my "to do " list because as you said it looks better that way
15 or so years ago we planted some unknown variety in cut-down drums as you did. We buried the drums halfway. Yesterday we began tearing them out and dividing them.
In that time, they never once breached the barrels with rhizomes. And they were root bound to an almost comical degree. They pretty much displaced the dirt with a solid mass of roots and rhizomes.
We live on an island in the Pacific Northwest and the barrels got the full brunt of the weather, but the barrels remained fully intact.
We are so confident in the barrel system that we're replanting them in fresh barrels. But this time we'll remove, divide, and replant more frequently.
If we had such good luck, I'm pretty confident that you will, too.
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome 😉
I think you're supposed to sandwich the overlapped barrier between two metal strips. That way the rhizomes can't grow through the gap.
You are right and as you can see I made that mistake. Not too many rhizomes are coming through, but I need to check it all the time, but need to do that anyway because the suckers also grow over the barrier. I prefer the rhizome trench
thank you
You are very welcome
How tall does the Arrow Bamboo grow ? I've got a plastic water tank that came out my loft, it's about 100x60 cm and 50cm deep, I'm thinking of burying it in the ground then planting bamboo in it. I want something 2 - 2.5m high really.
here it is 4 meters tall, but the plant is also 10 years old, the younger plants are 2.5 - 3 meters but will also reach 4 giving them time. you can always cut them to the size you want them to be. many people cut bamboo like a hedge.
Bob is my non-binary uncle ❤
i planted a bunch of them without a barrier, this will be fun next year :)
put a trench around them and you'll be good 🙂
@@jochen.allardice-greinwhat about for larger species? I’m trying to grow P atrovaginata, P parvifolia, and P iridescens which all might get to thirty feet in zone 6. Will a 45cm trench work?
@@Dollapfin out of the ones you listed I have P atrovaginata, with that one I had partly trench around it and it worked, but I also controlled it with a spade because the rhizomes were shallow. However I moved it into several containers now, for some reason I didn't trust the plant, don't ask me why it was just one of may, many, strange feelings, but while it was in the ground the trench and spade actions worked.
BOB IS YOUR NON BINARY UNCLE 🤣
great content. thanks for sharing with this bamboo noob
😀 you are very welcome
Good video. My neighbor planted bamboo and it is running into my yard. I'm pulling up the ryzones. when i'm done i will dig the trench as you showed in your video.
Thank you, it is a pain when people that plant running bamboo don't look after it and stop it from spreading into the neighbours garden. It should be your neighbour digging the trench (point them to my video 🤣).
wish my German was 1/2 as good as your English, Pittsburgh PA. USA HERE.
Cheers, living in the UK for 20 years did help, although when I am drunk, you'd think I never spoke English in my life 🤣
How do you kill completely..I have dug up most of the roots and runners but but I think some are left
I have not tried to kill bamboo so far. Every time when I wanted to get rid of the plant I did what you did, dug up the runners, as soon as you can see the canes come up, I dig them up. Sorry that I cannot be more help with this one.
@@jochen.allardice-grein thanks Sean from Cobh Ireland.
@@jochen.allardice-grein FYI Darrell Luck talks in this video how to get rid of a clump of bamboo, cut the grove down, then the next year let it sprout again to full height to pull the energy from the rhizome and before it leafs out, cut the grove down again. Repeat for a couple of years and the bamboo will die without having to bring in bull dozers etc. czcams.com/video/C5Ke83_QKtk/video.html
@@evelynsouzaferreira4593 thank you so much that is a super video, I hope I will never need to use that technique :-), but I am reducing some of my bamboo I have and plant flowering trees instead, to so more for the bees, but that is another topic
How deep does the barrier need to go into the ground?
The HDPE membrane usually comes in 70 or 100 cm width and you must leave at least 6 cm of the membrane to come out of the ground because the rhizomes will grow over the barrier if you put it in flush with the rest of the ground and the rest of the membrane goes into the ground. It is a shit load of digging, but once put in properly, you just need to check that the bamboo doesn’t grow over it. Also make sure that it a little V shape when you put it in so that the rhizome that hit the barrier would grow to the top. Hope this helps
Do the roots of bamboo keep growing in the soil with the ryzomes removed???
The fibrous roots don’t matter and will not continue to grow once the rhizome is removed, I always leave them in, too much work to get all the roots out, BUT the rhizome needs to come out.
@@jochen.allardice-grein thanks . Thats great. This stuff is crazy!!
@MF-fc5vk it can go crazy that is true, but I like crazy, keeps me off the street 😂
If you live in colder climates like me, in zone 5, you shouldn't have to worry much. I have a small yard 40' x 30' in which I grow 4 different types of running bamboo. I don't have barriers, nor trenches. Just be observant and keep an eye out for long runners. You don't even need to dig the runners out. Just sever them from the main grove. Without the main grove feeding the rhizome with continuous energy, they will die eventually.
ps. Bamboo is invasive only if you allow it.
@@alwaysright6358 I have many runners that I only control with a spade, and no trench or barrier, but here I have to dig out the rhizomes because they will grow into their own bamboo plant. but yes you are right it is only invasive it you allow / ignore it
Rule #1 - Never, ever plant running bamboo.
Rule #2 - If you ignored rule #1, sell your house (at night) and move to another country. Your old neighbours will hate you and the new owners will be on a mission to track you down.
Rule #3 - “Clumping” bamboo can be controlled with a barrier and regular attention. If you do not regularly attend to it you will be spending hours with a crow bar, spade, mattock, and a reciprocating saw with a 32cm blade, just to cut out 1sq metre.
Rule
I am with you on the rules, I particularly like #2 😂, I am just a sucker for the plant, but you reminded me that I need to get myself a reciprocating saw, so far I only ever used the Smaller tool but the saw will make it easier (still a pain in the A##). Here is a question are you living 2 just now? either running or looking? 🤔
@@jochen.allardice-grein haha
I’m dealing with clumping, so just spent 10 hours cutting out 1.5sq metres, very dense root system that was at least 30cm deep.
A reciprocating saw is brilliant but make sure you get 32cm (12inch) pruning blades and lots of them, they work well in combo with a flat bottomed crow bar.
@@keefrasputin634 thank you for the idea with the blade length 👍I habe so many blind handsaws because of the silica contend in bamboo, but I will get myself a saw soon, to keep the buggers in check 🙂
@@jochen.allardice-grein
By the way….Good CZcams video.
Not generally an interesting topic….. good to see a lighthearted approach.
I share your joy of bamboo, but maintaining it can ruin your life😅
@keefrasputin634 cheers, and yes , looking after bamboo is sometimes fu*** annoying 😉
I have a wild grass that does this. Total pain in the arse trying to contain the MF.
I have a carex that keeps on growing and growing, from 1 small plant I now have 50 or more planted all over the garden, pain in the arse but I like it, jane on the other hand doesn't lol
@@jochen.allardice-grein I have a clumping grass that has spread in a field that was left fallow, and when I tried to strim them down, they just wrapped around the strimmer but I have discovered that in winter after the die back I am able to strim them down and keep going back and the large ball is also cutting back. With this grass along with dock plants that have self seeded I have my work cut out. I have bamboo in pots and wanted to plant it out but have been too nervous for fear I will end up with bamboo everywhere.
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I love bamboo but not enough to risk planting it here. I had every sort of plague plant in my last house's garden because of 1) idiot former owners, and 2) careless neighbors.
The problem is that people plant some stuff without doing their research, with bamboo especially, when you plant a clumping bamboo you are fine but you still need to check on it. Some of my neighbours think I am that idiot, but I keep them in check 😉
If your neighbors saw what you're doing to contain the bamboo they might appreciate more how much effort you've put into providing beauty smartly. Yes, there is a lot of research to do. I enjoy your videos. Free instruction is always a good thing!
@@jaycorwin1625 free advice bis always good and really happy that you like my videos. 🙂
Been fighting the neighbor's bamboo coming up in my yard/gardens and through stone walls since I bought my house. Am older and now unable to keep up due to health problems and it's taking over. Hate, hate, hate bamboo.
I completely understand the way you feel, and while I love bamboo I am on your side. Clearly your neighbours should have researched what they are planting and they should be responsible to take care of that. All Culms ( the bamboo canes) are connected like tree branches, like a network, so if anything could interrupt the network, it will all collapse and die. I really feel for you, there is a way to get rid of bamboo but it would mean your neighbours kill off their plant as well. It will take a few years, but does work without chemicals.
If you can mow your lawn, you can control any bamboo coming up on your side. Bamboo typically only shoot during spring or early summer. New shoots are very soft and brittle. You can snap them off with your fingers, kick them, or mow them down. I have gone to great lengths to protect my bamboo during shooting season because of how fragile they are. But if you let them finish shooting/growing, don't complain and whine after the fact.
@@alwaysright6358 true, don't complain if you don't look after your plants. especially bamboo
Having done all that mowing, kicking, snapping, roots still travel. They're an inch in diameter and come up in the middle of flower beds to sprout again. Since you're always right I'll assume you know everything but you're not experiencing what I am experiencing. Glad you love your bamboo. @@alwaysright6358
Bob's your non-binary Uncle. :)
😆, you have to be careful these days when it comes to gendering 🤣🤣