I looked over at the bamboo patch last week and realised it had completely resprouted after I chopped it down to ground level in the middle of June. So 5mths later it looks like this, standing at about 1.5 metres tall.
We have heaps of bamboo still to use and I'm slowly making my way through chopping off the leafy ends, using the snippers or tomahawk to cut off the branches and laying them beside the fence ready for use.
So far I have used them for tomato and sunflower stakes, have made teepees out of them for my peas, constructed a fence to contain the dog separate from the kids and of course my chicken coop - which is still standing up to the test of time!
Rock on bamboo.
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I have fond memories of my dad *containing* the bamboo.....he dug a deep VERY DEEP pit, laid in pieces of corrugated iron on their side and then back-filled the pit, which was actually more of a trench than a pit now I come to think of it! But it was deep. The bamboo never took over the garden again.
Just thought you might like to know in case yours gets away on you sometime!!
Thanks Rach. Yes, it does seem to be sending out runners now that it's been chopped and especially since the large trees that used to be next to it are no longer crowding in it's got space to spread! Might definitely need to contain it sometime soon.
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