I can’t figure out how it could possibly be drawing enough nutrients to live, and yet there it is. I’d have chopped it up and dragged it away but now I’m impressed and want to see how long it goes on.
Yeah you cant really kill a weed by folding it over
Nothing can kill bamboo. That’s why it’s considered invasive in areas it’s not local to, it just goes
It really depends on the species of bamboo, and where you plant it. Some bamboo species grow with rhizomes, so once it’s established, good luck getting rid of it. IIRC it’s golden bamboo that is a problem in the south. But it doesn’t grow nearly as fast as people think; it’s not kudzu. And it really needs full sun, so it doesn’t get established unless it’s away from large trees.
There are a few spots on my commute that have been taken over by bamboo. They’re pretty isolated from each other. If I was going to guess, I’d say that both were planted intentionally to control erosion.
MFW I introduce bamboo to my Animal Crossing New Leaf town
If bamboo worked in Animal Crossing the way it does IRL, I’d make sure to never plant any because it would replace weeds faster than weeds appear. You walk out of your house the next day and it’d just be a wall of bamboo. Timmy and Tommy would die of starvation as I am unable to make it to the town center and pay off my debts to them or deliver any fruit.
Get offerings ready to worship your new bamboo overlords
not only that, its also incredibly hard to contain.
That’s what I keep hearing, but all the bamboo I’ve tried to grow died after a couple of years. Am I doing something wrong?
The only way it will die is if you dig it up by the roots and burn it dude. That stuffs indestructible lol
Bamboo is just a really big grass. Most grasses can handle having their stems bent to extreme angles because they’re hollow. So the bending folds the outer layer rather than ripping it apart entirely.
In the pictures it’s clear it’s not just folded, though. Most of the stalk is severed, barring one little strip of bark. And it’s still flourishing. Wild.
While it doesn’t really apply to bamboo, this is kind of the way hedgerows are laid. The main trunk of the “tree” is cut most of the way through (called a pleacher), then laid on its side. New growth then sprouts from both the laid trunk, still getting nutrients from the stump, and the stump itself.
Check out coppice if you’re more interested. It’s pretty amazing what trees can do.
I was just about to mention this. I wonder if people have used bamboo to make hedgerows…
“Bamboo stalk don’t care, Bamboo stalk don’t give a fuck”
Read in the Honey Badger video voice.
Bamboo is resilient as fuck.
Life, uhhh, finds a way.
Bamboo is a type of grass, a mowed lawn keeps on growing.
But usually the clippings stop growing
