No! Not potatoes!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Beautiful variety you have. Love it. Love bamboo period. Pick where you plant it, as well as consider which variety. I have all running bamboo and contained them in a raised 2' high bed. Water, too dry or too compacted soils are among the best ways to contain bamboo. (Will transplant mine to pasture later.) The leaves are about 16% protein, they can be a problem for those in the horse family and cause laminitis/foundering. You need to let the bamboo culms get about 6-7 years old before using for building. That's when they have optimal silica. Older bamboo's higher silica content makes a superior biochar. The silica dulls knives faster than wood, so avoid buying bamboo cutting boards. All of mine are easy to prepare for cooking. Bamboo is considered aggressive instead of invasive. This is because all the plants of a variety die within a few years of each other and reseeding is minimal, though they are long lived. Thank you for bringing awareness to this wonderful plant. ❤❤❤🪴

Ooooooookay lmao. Live in Virginia and my first thought was "bamboo but more than likely comfrey". I have a guy that's trying to get rid of his. I'm like, "gimme some." He's all "he'll naw that stuff will spread everywhere man!" Like dawg, it won't spread past the woodline, and you just need to figure out the height and that's how far away the ribosome will spread. Eezy peezy!

🤔 wonder if it can be grown in zone 6 I live in east KY and been looking for free materials for trellises, fences etc

Awesome !!! But the BEST Grow or Die bk was written by George Land 😁😁🤗

Is the first variety the one you will be selling from your nursery? My buddy has running shoots poking out of his lawn, he said i can dig them up. Gonna try keeping them alive in pots, until I get my homestead outside of California.

A friend tried this with the inside of an old washing machine. Didn't work. The roots snuck out of the tiny holes and spread everywhere.

My thoughts too 😂

Yeah, me too...

Lol me too

He doesn't like comfrey rhe ways others do... it's not super great in his zone...😊

You aren't the only one. 😂😂

Appropriate for a Chinese Vassal State......😮😂

Panda dairy!

@@grandmachickenscluckingoodsoap OMG, I was thinking petting farm, but heck, yeah!

Panda Senior Retreat

@@bobb.6393 Hem, hem, exactly who are you calling Senior, young man? I intend to have cubs there, you know. They will be the cutest!

I heard it's better to let them spend the energy to grow tall, but deny them the return on that growth by cutting as soon as you can to that max leafyness.

You don't even need to dig it up. Cut one down, and each node (the lined rings on bamboo) can be cut off, and turned into its own plant. Transplanting them will take a decade to have any noticeable size to your bamboo garden. Look up ways to propegate bamboo. In 3 years I went from having a 15 stalk area, to a complete privacy fence in my back yard by only cutting down 3 bamboo to propegate.

@Kathleen Sanderson there are dozens of great videos on KZfaq as well. One method I like now is what I call pipe layering. (I know im not the first to do it, but i dont know what it's called lol.) I cut down a full stalk and rest it in water overnight. The next day, I lay out the bamboo where the branches lay out flat on the ground as the bamboo branches would always shoot off the node opposite of each other. I then use a good drill bit (3/4" WoodOwl Overdrive... it makes clean holes that look like they've been made on a machine lol.) And I drill holes in the middle of the internodes. I then fill the internodes with water and hammer in a 3/4" wood plug. This will trap the water inside the node. Now, I can bury an entire bamboo next to a fence, a property line, or my favorite, a pathway. So in about 2 years, as the shoots start to grow-die, grow-die, they grow a bit bigger each time. And around the 7th to 10th cycle (2 to 5 cycles a year) you get a line of bamboo growing in a straight line from the ground. It looks so awesome when done on both sides if a path. If you need it curved, you can bend the bamboo while it's still alive before cutting it. Basically, I bend the bamboo over bit by bit until I can tie a rope around the top portion. I then pull it down until I can fasten it to a yard spike (it's a curly-q steel spike you screw into the ground.) And after a few months l, you can detach the rope, and the bamboo will stay that shape. Now, I can do the same pipe method, but with a 90 degree bend. I made a circular area to go around my small fire pit. But it's still in the early stages. *** I apologize for the novella... I just really love bamboo. Ever since I was a child. It's honestly the perfect plant for our planet. It grows super fast, it's way stronger than wood, it grows extremely fast, and it cleans about 30% more carbon from the air than trees (per acre). ***

@@carterscustomrods That's a really cool idea -- thank you! We have a spot where we want to make a bamboo privacy hedge, and your method would be perfect for that! And I love bamboo, too. (I also love pretty much all trees -- my college major was forestry.) I love the way it looks, and I love how useful it is without having to go through all of the steps you often have to take to make tree wood into something.

Bamboo is particularly excellent for making parallel strand lumber, which in turn is strong enough to make skyscrapers. It definitely grows faster than hardwood trees, on poorer soil to boot. Bamboo-based PSL is already available in East Asia and has seen some commercial success in China, but it's yet to catch on in Europe and North America. Keep an eye out though. I wager it'll become an investment opportunity sooner or later.

@Luke Fabis yeah the bamboo psl is awesome stuff, but it eats blades when cutting it. One cool, (but pricey and not as legal as it should be) is HempWood. It's beautiful and almost as strong as bamboo, but the cultivation and preparation are easier than bamboo to make boards... plus it looks amazing. Hopefully it gains popularity.

❤WOOD SORREL❤

You know why they grimace? It contains oxalic acid, which is toxic to cats, dogs, and livestock!

I never thought of a wood sorrel as a ground cover. That's a great idea! I've been plucking them thinking it's a weed but I know you can eat it too if there's nothing else to eat. Thanks for sharing! ❤️🙏

Wood Sorrow has Yellow flowers,,not purple..Sounds like you may have ' Henbit'

Creeping woodsorrel is what I've got. Yellow flower. What kind of woodsorrel do you have? I wonder if it's just ignorance that makes people hate it so much. At least it's not salvia stickers! They are probably the most plentiful, camoflaged, painful weed I know, other than cactus.

Hides?

@@lizhallengren5127 little under water aquarium “caves”.

@@lizhallengren5127 Looked that up. So it's basically a section of bamboo that people put into their aquariums as some fish like to "hide" in the 'cave' the piece of bamboo gives (you leave the node wall intact). Takes a bit of time to sink on its own but that's the idea of the hides. Interesting.

You have to dig it out, no other way. I had a patch of it in my suburban yard, planted by a previous owner. It took me I’d say five years to eradicate all of the bamboo. Those roots show up all over the place and if you leave any, it will grow back. However, once you get hold of a piece of root, you can pull it up kind of like a string.

I think you need to let them shoot up, and then chop them down before/just as they get leaves. That way they starve out over time as they cannot get the sweet-sweet energy from the sun.

You might have what we call in TN "river cane". That's stuff's almost impossible to get rid of.

@@kalinystazvoruna8702 I think that is likely.

@@MalawisLilleKanal That's pretty much what I have been doing for a couple of years. It doesn't help though that it continues to grow in the adjacent HOA undeveloped "Green Area".

I'll vote for a nursery visit and primer on the various types of bamboo.

I would love to see that nursery and video too. I have 3 clumping bamboos and would love to see that. Much love and blessings from Australia :)

That's cool, thanks for the tip!

Thanks, Robert! We live in PC, but my brother and his family live in Pensacola. Sounds like a great excuse to go visit them!

Dude grows bamboo too

In a tight space, you really have to stick with clumping types.

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Bamboo eats chihuahuas? I need to get some. 🤔🤓🍻

@@alsaunders7805 that is one of its finest overlooked features, yes

@@alsaunders7805 My whole neighborhood needs to get some.

lol

Yeah I am in Georgia and have really large bamboo! I love it, its really beautiful!

Super cool, love your soldier attitude. People like you helped me start enjoying the process of fighting weeds, wheras before it was the most depressing task in the world.

My brother has a neighbor down the street who has massive bamboo. It grows 2-3" in diameter. Like most people who have bamboo, he's told my brother to cut all he wants.

Bamboo huh,🤯 unexpected, rnr I've been waiting for it all My life haha.., My wife and I have been following you for years and I've told her for a while now that you had to get to it soon bc you've covered pretty much everything ..and then some!😂 Thanks btw haha.. just got my "Compost your Enemies" sticker in the mail yesterday thank you sir🫱 Hope you've Trademarked it🤔 I have a small group of like minded folk saying/using it😂 appreciate the content and attempt at comedy 😢 just kidding all love brother!!

Yes the bamboo on the coop looks great. I wondered if he’d preserved the bamboo first

Yes, it should grow. Just water and feed it well for a bit.

Or just make sure it's one of the clumping variety.

Good use for an old non working fridge!

How deep does the trench need to be?

@@angelbear_og I believe it was about 4 ft deep, like a sheet of tin.

@@deannewilliams3321 Thanks!

The Borax soak method is likely the easiest. Some shade, some water, and a tarp/small pool. I've never done well with solar curing it here in Florida. The bugs get to it quickly, and the bamboo splits quickly.

Wait, what? Cyanide?

@@captainkim3643 Mature stalks have cyanide in them. Its a fairly common organic compound found in a wide range of plants. I believe there is some way to treat pipes prior to smoking. I was making bongs out of bamboo in Hawaii and an old hippie told me about it.

Well said. You can literally just pay attention and kick down new shoots once or twice in the spring with 10 minutes of total labor. It's bizarre how terrified people are of this incredible grass.

There are over 1000 species of bamboo and I think there plenty that will grow in your area.

How do you mow down 3 inch culms in 15 foot clumps? Doesn't happen. Takes a loader and several thousand dollars. Just experience talking.

Bro, I wish perilla would invade my yard! How bout states actually pluck and sell stuff like that instead of labeling an invasive? It's like finding a bunch of money growing in the woods.

Stop listening to braindead redditors that tell you all plants are invasive and bad xD 99.99% their over reacting!

Why do you need to get rid of ivy? What bad is it doing?

You know ivy makes great cordage!

@@GoldenBoy-et6of it covers up the ground and chokes out nice native plants. Also loves to climb trees and choke them out and is a pain to keep after. A million other better things to plant.

PS, zone 6 , south WV 🤭

Native plants do the same thing and actually fit in the ecosystem because they were evolved to be here. Introduced species don't work with the system, and that's why you see the floor inside the bamboo patch so barren compared to in a bit of forest. If you want to heal soil, there are plenty of plants like Little Bluestem, Switch Grass, Echinacea, which do exactly that. Willow grows fast and can be coppiced to provide straight whips for building with. The list is endless, really, just a matter of knowing what native plants do what.

Oh yeah!

There still is native bamboo in South Carolina. Especially along the Broad River.

Rivercane bamboo. I hope to get some. It’s the most tolerant of poor drainage sites which would come in handy

@@quailjailss Indeed. It’s everywhere. I can imagine what it would have looked like 300 years ago with natives using the bamboo and thickets up and down the rivers here. It’s on the sides of our highways as well.

Switchcane still exists, but the formerly massive "canebrakes" were mostly converted to farmland. The animals that used to depend on it are more threatened (habitat destruction/fragmentation) than the plants themselves.

@@erikjohnson9223 like the Carolina Parakeet. Has been extinct since the early 1900s.

How big/dee[ of a ditch? Honest question.

@@mindofmadness5593 I would cut at least 4ft - 6ft depth and width. Minimum. More for certain types of bamboo. Some bamboo doesn't play about running and it can get big. Depends in the type planted.

Good to know, thanks!

That's like having a friend with a boat - sometimes better than owning it yourself.

Amazing that it grows in zone 9b!

Try it. I’m in NM and I have bamboo on my property and I’ve seen it lots of places around the state. It’s quite hardy. Give it a shot.

Like all organic materials, that depends indoors or outside, soil contact or not. It does behave differently (& often splits as it dries) than wood, probably because of high silica.

One season. But, it works better than sunflower stalks. Don’t ask me how I know...

I'll tell you a natural control - chickens! :)

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimchickens are not going to stop this bamboo from spreading. People also forget that eventually their homes will be left behind leaving these invasives free to take over everything. Invasive plants are no joke.

@@CampingforCool41 ?? What do you mean by "people's homes will eventually be left behind"?

Thank you. I did a video on bamboo back in the West Indies: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6xzZbOIp5mxdHk.html

You've got to stay on top of it!