[Closed] Transplanting Bamboo Plants

bamboo's a ****ing WEED - presume it needs no special care

took me a whole weekend with a mattock to clear a 5ft by 10ft patch of garden (stuff was about 10 ft tall too)

Thats the kind of advice I like.

Going to ninja it out of the grounds of an old stately home type thing - stick a couple of large pots around the base of the soil pipe to hide it.

(did I make it clear I'm not a whoretyculturalist) 😉

Don't EVER turn your back on it or it'll take over your whole house

It's going in some big custom made planter/pot things onto concrete - not sure how it'll escape...

This is what you want...

I'll get you a cutting if you like 😉

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Whats that?

It looks quite nice, not sure if you could get a viable cutting to ireland.

It's going in some big custom made planter/pot things onto concrete - not sure how it'll escape...

I'm just saying,

don't

EVER

sleep

We had one bamboo plant...which is now three!
It was in our garden at our last house and decided to move it with us. MrFC literally chopped it into three plants and put it into three pots.
They are all thriving.

Erm dude, that Japanese Knotweed. You do not want that anywhere near your garden.

Bamboo on the other hand is pretty easy. It's usually propogated via rhizome cuttings, ideally one with shoot and root buds starting. Plant it and enjoy.

Geez Bamboo has got a bad rep! The thing with Bamboos is that they can be divided into 'clump forming' (Phyllostachys, Fargesia, Chusquea etc) which are pretty good at staying put, and 'runners' like Sasa which will take over the entire neighbourhood. Of course if you don't know what you've got then treat it like a runner!

slight hijack, what food for bamboo?

This is our screen of Japonica we planted 7 years ago to stop the nosey bitch next door spying on us .
maxes out at 4 ish metres high

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Will happily post a cutting if you want one.
I have one in growing in a pot at the moment which I dont know what to do with it so it is free to a good home . but you would have to collect it .

reference food .
they like quantity not quality so any well rotted manure , urine
dead animals / people they are not too fussy eaters.

they dont like the roots to get too dry .

really good to watch a shoot grow a few inches each day .

any general feed will work for bamboo in pots - as they're a grass think of them as a supersized lawn. In the ground they need nothing - we planted the runner type in our garden and now I've become the Boss to it's Cool Hand Luke type escape bids...