Anonymous wrote:

I want this panda in my neighborhood, munching on our bamboo.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of fabrics marketed as bamboo are actually just rayon. True story!

Jason, is that you?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It spreads like wildfire. I have never seen a plant like this before.
Where I grew up bamboo does not grow, so it was always exotic to me.
Well no more, our neighbor has it. He had 2 gardeners remove it completely, they whacked it away... and two weeks later; I cannot see his house anymore. The bamboo is over 15 feet tall and so thick and strong, it is insane.
Of course, it is coming over the fence.

What did you say kills it??

Ha! I am that poster. Our neighbor's bamboo has since expanded. The house has a new owner who is not aware of what this plant can do. It almost has reached the second story windows.
Meanwhile, on our side of the fence: shoots are popping up like the stems of trees on our lawn. It is so strong.
We've tried the roundup.... We are looking at a trench now.

But how to dig that trench in hard clay soil??

Also, I read somewhere that a grass lawn is supposed to contain it, but that does not seem to be the case. Anyone with advice??

With a backhoe.

Yes, I'm serious.

Anonymous wrote:

OP is a panda

Anonymous wrote:back when we were shopping for our first house and looking for fixer-uppers we went to an open house for a house that needed a lot of work. the home owners had written up a little narrative about their ownership of the house and how much they loved the home and cared for it. then they acknowledged that it needed a lot of cosmetic work but that they had spent too much time, money and energy on erradicating the bamboo. I guess they just wanted to make sure we knew that they weren't just sitting on their butts but engaged in an all out bamboo war.

Omg. That is so funny. Wiping tears off my face!

Anonymous wrote:It spreads like wildfire. I have never seen a plant like this before.
Where I grew up bamboo does not grow, so it was always exotic to me.
Well no more, our neighbor has it. He had 2 gardeners remove it completely, they whacked it away... and two weeks later; I cannot see his house anymore. The bamboo is over 15 feet tall and so thick and strong, it is insane.
Of course, it is coming over the fence.

What did you say kills it??

Ha! I am that poster. Our neighbor's bamboo has since expanded. The house has a new owner who is not aware of what this plant can do. It almost has reached the second story windows.
Meanwhile, on our side of the fence: shoots are popping up like the stems of trees on our lawn. It is so strong.
We've tried the roundup.... We are looking at a trench now.

But how to dig that trench in hard clay soil??

Also, I read somewhere that a grass lawn is supposed to contain it, but that does not seem to be the case. Anyone with advice??

12:34 - you are over the edge. You need to have sex, take up drinking, both, or (more seriously) simply get to the psych doctor immediately. Far more urgent than any bamboo.

What you don't realize is that you are fear mongering and should be reported. There are different types of bamboo, and very, very few people know the difference. MOST types of bamboo do NOT spread and are harmless.

If you are not certain, and it is ON YOUR OWN PROPERTY, you need to hire an UNBIASED (big concept, I know) to (wait for it) professionally write up any concerns. You will need MORE THAN ONE professional opinion by a bamboo expert that SPECIALIZES in bamboo.

You have absolutely zero business on anyones property but your own. If you attempt to mind others property, they can take measures against you. You are a grown adult? You realize this, right?

Since you are so willing to run your mouth and fear monger, and perhaps worse, against your neighbors; I assume you have tremendously deep pockets to keep up with your big mouth. You better hope they don't come after you with a lawsuit or two for being a neighborhood nuisance, among other worse things. Or are you the type that has nothing (no house, car, career, whatever) to lose?

Pay money out of your own pocket for a certified bamboo specialist to have a professional, notarized quote done. It will require more than one; who are not in any way affiliated (if they are affiliated it nullifies the quote).

Honestly, act like you have brains. No one will take you seriously if you tho about it like a raving lunatic who is fear mongering, at best.

Where are you from that you know absolutely nothing about bamboo and are raving on about nothing? Who did this to you?

Anonymous wrote:
You seriously need meds if you think bamboo is (your word here) "horrifying". Yikes.

As a homeowner, spreading bamboo is indeed horrifying. I watch road crews do battle with it yearly to try to keep it from destroying state roads. And I've watched it wreck buildings. If I had not mostly successfully eradicated it from my yard, my house and other exterior structures would have been at risk. As it is, I am still working on preventing it from re-encroaching.

Yes, horrifying. It requires constant vigilance.

Anonymous wrote:I can not understand any living thing being such an obsession for any grown human being. Anyone who attaches to the bamboo subject (as most other subjects) and refuses to let it go needs professional help.


To be so fixated on anything as to put toxins on it in an effort to be rid of it shows how stupid people really are.

Spoken like someone who has never dealt with running bamboo.

I remember our friends were obsessed with bamboo, and we thought they were nuts. Then we bought our house, found out later the neighbor had previously planted bamboo but "tore it out" due to the neighbors complaints. Tore out......ha......

Going on a decade now, and we have yet to defeat the bamboo. It doesn't just sprout up next to where it was planted. It runs underground and shoots up evrywhere. In the garden, in the middle of the yard, in the neighbors yards, and in our garage....with its concrete floor.....

I wouldn't blink an eye if we came home one day, and our house was raised a foot in the air with a field of bamboo pushing it out of the ground.

OMG. These people sound like my crazy neighbor who approaches all of the new neighbors in the neighborhood (the established neighbors tell him to drop dead); and tries to scare the new neighbors with sordid tales of bamboo!

He has no idea what the established neighbors think of him, but he is doing a great job of proving them right

Yes, because the bamboo walks into the POW prison, knocks on the door, opens it (all without opposable thumbs, mind you) and says "I'd like to kill you today, please bend over". It has nothing to do with bamboo being professionally harvested by huge machines, sent to a special building to have the bamboo mechanically and systematically separated, and then administered by specially trained torture specialists. As if that much accurate material on torture is actually published.

Have you been watching too many movies?

But then, some people have torture being in their own minds. Thinking about bamboo too much. When instead, they should be going to a professional psychiatric office and begging for meds to help them actually see reality.

Seeing bamboo as an animated object that wants to come through the concrete (!!!!) and kill you = CRAZY.

There are different kinds of bamboo. If there is a type that has been in its place for 50 years and has not yet managed to kill you in your sleep; keep one eye open for the bamboo owner. I know they would be glad to.

Go ahead, dare to tell me you don't understand this post. Psycho.

Hey, check this out from the BBC. It grows a full meter a day. Did you see the mythbusters episode where they showed bamboo could indeed torture or kill POWS? Frightening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDOMwFX5Hg