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125gJoe
03-24-2008, 6:05 AM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120631952767158355.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Joe! One has to subscribe to read the rest of the article. BAH!
bluerat
03-24-2008, 7:50 AM
i thought the same Que
SpockthePuffer
03-24-2008, 7:51 AM
lol, they hooked me in and then I realized I couldn't even read the entire article! hmph!
bluerat
03-24-2008, 8:05 AM
oh how i hate half tales lol
Reefscape
03-24-2008, 11:25 AM
LOL...did a Google search to see if the article is anywhere else, IN FULL ;) ...alas....twas not...
What a bunch of crap! copy paste it Joe!!!
Easydoesit
03-24-2008, 1:19 PM
:nono:
125gJoe
03-25-2008, 3:10 AM
Hmmm...
I didn't see anything about subscribing. There was only one page.
Here are the last few paragraphs:
Mr. Clever loves bamboo. If it spreads too much, "the problem is not bamboo, the problem is a human error" in installing and siting a stand of it, he says. "That's how I keep busy: lots of people out there screwing it up and getting it wrong."
There's little agreement on the best way to eradicate bamboo when it gets out of hand. Natural remedies such as pouring on salt or undiluted vinegar are generally scoffed at. Many experts suggest cutting bamboo to the ground, adding weed killer and then mowing regularly to keep new shoots under control.
Erik Christiansen, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland, used bamboo canes he hacked out of his garden in Greenbelt, Md., to build a compost bin and a couple of trellises. As far as getting rid of it is concerned, he says, "to me the only thing that works is you cut it down, it grows back, you cut it down, it grows back, you cut it down, it grows back. And hopefully it doesn't grow back after the third time."
Bamboozled
In Kensington, Md., Scott Robinson, owner of a business that makes sports novelties, hired a landscaper to dig a trench in front of his bamboo grove. It stretches 50 feet across the back of his yard. His landscaper lined the trench with the kind of metal flashing more commonly used for roofing.
The bamboo roots, however, disappeared below the barrier. They sprinted sideways into a neighbor's yard, then doubled back onto Mr. Robinson's. "Literally, short of using a backhoe to dig up the backyard, I don't have a solution," he sighs. "We could keep a herd of pandas."
Francis Gouin, a professor emeritus in ornamental horticulture at the University of Maryland, who decades ago experimented with the tropical defoliant Agent Orange, has developed what he says is an eradication strategy that really works, involving the application of doses of weed killer at precise times. Mr. Gouin has simpler advice, though: "Don't plant bamboo."
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Easydoesit
03-25-2008, 5:37 AM
i will always remember never to plant bamboo.
i wonder if you tell your potential buyers about that when youre selling your house, or just cut it low and let them find out for themselves later
I had bamboo on my property at the first house I bought. It was OK where it was because I lived next to a busy tight curve in the road. The bamboo kept the car lights from shining into my house. This article brings back memories. Bamboo is one heck of an invasive plant. In the spring when the shoots start growing it can get upwards of a foot of growth a day. The bamboo I had grew to about 30 feet tall... thats one years growth.
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Catpicklesdog
03-25-2008, 12:22 PM
No-one told me when I brought this house 2 years ago. I've always wanted bamboo. Now I hate the darn stuff!!!
The Zigman
03-25-2008, 12:27 PM
I had bamboo on my property at the first house I bought. It was OK where it was because I lived next to a busy tight curve in the road. The bamboo kept the car lights from shining into my house. This article brings back memories. Bamboo is one heck of an invasive plant. In the spring when the shoots start growing it can get upwards of a foot of growth a day. The bamboo I had grew to about 30 feet tall... thats one years growth.
Q
30 feet!! WoW!!
How thick is a 30 foot tall bamboo shoot?