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- Digging out sprawling bamboo - that's the way it works
- Be careful with bamboo varieties without limits
- Knowing how and right tool is half the job
- Limiting instead of proliferating
- Tips & Tricks
Digging out sprawling bamboo - that's the way it works
Bamboo - light and filigree on the surface surging in the wind. For it rooted under the earth the heavier and more powerful. The first question, if you want to dig up a bamboo: Is it a horstigen or Hainbildenden bamboo.
Hain-forming or horstige Bambusorten can be removed relatively well. These include, for example, the not hardy Fargesien. They form new stalks directly from the root ball and spread only slowly. They are more like large tufts of grass than bamboo fields.
Be careful with bamboo varieties without limits
In the bamboo-forming bamboo, the rhizomes branch out so far that bamboo shoots sprout out of the ground all over the garden. And even before the neighboring property they do not stop. Rhizomes spread as thick oval-shaped roots. They develop into new root balls with their own impulses. Such bamboo varieties without limits are for example:
Their rhizomes branch up to 10 meters in all directions and up to 1 meter deep. Better to early than late mother plant and all rhizomes must be dug up and removed. They grow through and damage masonry, buildings, walkways and roads!
Knowing how and right tool is half the job
Digging out a sprawling bamboo is a power project. Not only brains are needed here, but you have to plan and calculate the work, bone work and special tools and excavators. The garden must be dug up and recreated. Important: Digging must be completed in one growing season!
Digging begins where the bamboo sticks, which are furthest away from the mother plant, spring up from the ground. The closer one gets to the mother plant, the firmer and harder the roots are. Sift through the dug earth and remove bamboo rhizomes before filling the soil again. Dig up the best spades to bamboo:
Grave Spade Holstein for normal work
Dig drainage spade with fiberglass handle for bamboo barrier
Rodepaten with D-handle - forged from one piece - dig up to bamboo
Limiting instead of proliferating
The best weapon against proliferation is limited: With a special plastic barrier, you can clearly define the bamboo site. Then the bamboo stays fairly secure within its limits and does not undermine the entire garden. Control is safest. Therefore it is more often necessary to check up, whether the rhizome barrier is tight.
Tips & Tricks
The rhizomes must not be in the compost! From each separated or remaining in the soil rhizome can form again a new plant! And the work was free!