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If they ban bamboo then they better ban ivy too. My neighbor has tons of it in her yard and it's invading my yard, covering my fence and choking my trees.
And while they're at it all trees too close to the property line should be banned so I don't have to clean leaves out of my pool everyday.
This is going to open up a can of worms. Smithtown has no right telling you what you can and cannot plant in your yard.
If they ban bamboo then they better ban ivy too. My neighbor has tons of it in her yard and it's invading my yard, covering my fence and choking my trees.
And while they're at it all trees too close to the property line should be banned so I don't have to clean leaves out of my pool everyday.
This is going to open up a can of worms. Smithtown has no right telling you what you can and cannot plant in your yard.
When the Earth was created, it was created without Bamboo.
Smithtown is looking at or has passed a common-sense law: you can grow it, but you're responsible for its spread. In other words, if you don't put the proper barriers in that bamboo needs to stay confined (at least 3 feet deep), you'll be cleaning up your neighbor's yard, fixing their pool and patio, etc. This makes more sense than an outright ban. Bamboo is actually good for the environment, it makes a great carbon sink and can grow in poor soil areas that nothing else will. I'd rather look at bamboo than dirt, but you have to be responsible if you're going to plant it as an ornamental. From what I heard, the town will only be enforcing complaints, not going door to door to enforce this. Makes good sense to me.
That's going to be a good question, especially when you factor in a possible built-in liability buying a house. Could bite a few people on the rear-end. Then again, if it wasn't a problem before the house was purchased, then it shouldn't be a problem now. If new home buyers are using bamboo as a pro to buy a house, it would be their problem I guess. If not, they can just remove it completely. Yikes, this s#%@ can get complicated.
There are clumping varieties of bamboo that will not spread and take over the town. Sort of like Liriope (Monkey Grass) that spreads all over but their are clumping varieties that look great and won't overtake everything...
Ivy can be killed in the spring when the leaves are new and haven't developed their wax coating. Just spray with round-up and bye bye Ivy.
Question... bamboo has those divider cells every few inches. So how does the Roundup get down to the roots when you spray it in the cut hole? Does it just eat through it?
We've got bamboo from the previous owner. It was a small bunch right by the back door blocking the view of the yard - don't know why she would have planted it there, but... So we moved it off to the side fence, not realizing that it was going to spread. Over the years it pretty much contained itself to the one area, but then we saw sprouts coming out into the lawn 10, 20 feet away from the plant! Hubby would just mow it down and of course it came back somewhere else.
It did go over to the neighbor's side of the fence, but they liked it too as a view-blocker. A couple of years ago we cut our side of the bamboo all down, they kept theirs. Only get a few shoots now which get cut right away. I like the idea of using the Roundup, but I don't want my other plants to get killed off. Does it affect other plantings - like myrtle groundcover or azaleas or grass?
Roundup will only kill what it touches and it becomes inactive on contact with soil. It will not harm your other plants if you do not spray them with it. I buy the generic version online. It's called Glyphosate and 41% concentrate should run you $30-$40 a gallon at farm supply stores (enough for over 100 gallons of mix-buy a sprayer at home depot) If you are concerned about other plants, you can take a paint brush and apply the concentrate to freshly cut shoots. I've killed poison ivy that way.
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Originally Posted by 7CatMom
Question... bamboo has those divider cells every few inches. So how does the Roundup get down to the roots when you spray it in the cut hole? Does it just eat through it?
We've got bamboo from the previous owner. It was a small bunch right by the back door blocking the view of the yard - don't know why she would have planted it there, but... So we moved it off to the side fence, not realizing that it was going to spread. Over the years it pretty much contained itself to the one area, but then we saw sprouts coming out into the lawn 10, 20 feet away from the plant! Hubby would just mow it down and of course it came back somewhere else.
It did go over to the neighbor's side of the fence, but they liked it too as a view-blocker. A couple of years ago we cut our side of the bamboo all down, they kept theirs. Only get a few shoots now which get cut right away. I like the idea of using the Roundup, but I don't want my other plants to get killed off. Does it affect other plantings - like myrtle groundcover or azaleas or grass?
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