Any of you guys know where in Ohio they sell good old Asian bamboo?
I have a place in my woods where I want to build an earth oven (for bread/pizzas etc.) and a picnic pavilion……bamboo/thatch etc. would my 1 choice.
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I've checked into this. Google bamboo pruducts. You'll get a bunch. None in Ohio. If your looking fir shade try looking for 1/2" by 6' bamboo wired together with copper wire and it comes in a roll. Makes a great sunscreen.
Wayne
Couple places here where you'd be welcome to cut a truckload or few. Grows like a weed, very difficult to contain.
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Are you in Virginia? I'd like to plant a thicket or two around here if I could.
Check with the ODNR, i think they have some of it on the invasive species list. I know where some is/was growing in one of the wildlife areas. I've seen it wile phesant hunting. What part of ohio are you in?
SE....thanks.....I'll give it a check
Hey JJ
We got some clumping bamboo shipped to NC by
bamboogarden.com
They are in the northwest but have a great website with mucho info, and will ship anywhere.
Yup, near Charlottesville. My understanding is that it's a little touchy to get started. But then watch out!
I've been paid considerable money to attempt eradification with my loader. Made a 30' tall mound of debris/roots, which then took root. Now there's a new hill behind that house (not mine) with a great stand of bamboo on top.
A root will go out 50' from the grove trying to find an area to spread to.
That hill came about when the client decided not to pay tipping fees. There was no way I was going to bring that stuff here for disposal like I would ordinary wood. I was afraid it might take root, just like it did there.
Bamboo and kudzu, tough to control. At least kudzu has a very short growing season here.
Watch what you wish for...PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
you know we may be talking about different stuff...cause I'm thinking asia type bamboo..the kind I saw when I was over there.........never saw it growing in States.........they built everything out of the stuff from spears to dwellings.................same stuff?......I'm gonna come down there this spring and get some ...love it
There are two types of bambbo in terms of it's growing characteristics; spreading and clumping.
The clumping varieties are easily contained and there is a wide variety available. I have some black bamboo that does not spread and I have some golden bamboo that rivals kudzu.
Bamboo, as you know, is a grass and is available from 6" tall to 60' tall, although the big timber variety doesn't usually do as well in CONUS as it does in Asia.
I recall being in the weeds in VN and spending the night in a sprawling forest of huge bamboo. It's self mulching and nothing else grows underneath (plantwise, that is).
"Sunset's" Western Garden book has a big section on bamboo and I assume Sunset has a book for your region. Many nurserys carry it or can get it.
Notchman may have a better idea. I'm under the impression there are a lot of varieties, different sizes.
Maybe 20' tall here, perhaps 1-1.5" d. When I drove my crawler into the grove I could see absolutely nothing except where I'd just flattened. The guy picking up the tab ran (best as he could) to head me off from going over a 20' dropoff. I was trying to find the edge near the house to start digging, approached it from the back side.
Inside the grove, you hardly know which way is up.
My job was to dig out the root mass, that grows like a continuous mat a few inches thick. Worked fine until I got near a stream, then I didn't have enough hydraulics to break up the mat. Even with a small bite. Crawler isn't large (7 tons) but can hoist a 6 ton rootball when pointed uphill. Client thought my repeatedly driving over the hill I'd created would kill it. Wrong.
I took great pains to avoid 'Nam. And know most all I care to about bamboo. But I'll go there this week for some pix if you'd like. The other grove is in a subdivision near here. Spread, to be a problem for the crews clearing under the power lines. Pretty sure I can get you harvesting permission both places, trunks and roots if you want to try growing.
It's a weed, I tell you. I've seen similar in tidewater here. Unwelcome on my property. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I'll get back to you this Spring ....if I'm still around (biopsy tomorrow :-)
Ouch. Hope it's nowhere important. Good luck.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Could be........paramedics scraped me off the bathroom floor a couple days ago for some reason....so if I fall off the screen, don't think I ignored your offer :)
Be thinking on ya.
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That gonna take awhile to get the biopsy results? Or are you already checked in?
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jj,
I've got some big (4") bamboo started. Seems to take a few years to get big.
Let me know when you want some and I will send some root stock.
KK
ok...thanks