How to Kill Bamboo Permanently: A Complete Removal Guide Here at TerraBamboo, we spend most of our time celebrating bamboo — its beauty, its versatility, and its remarkable growth. But we’re also realists. Sometimes bamboo ends up exactly where you don’t want it. Maybe you inherited a property with an aggressive running bamboo that’s swallowing … Read more
By the end of year two, I was ready to give up on the south grove entirely. I had planted a mixed stand of Phyllostachys aureosulcata and Phyllostachys nigra in what I thought was decent ground — slightly acidic, good…
Three years into growing bamboo, I cut my first real harvest — about 40 poles of Phyllostachys vivax — stacked them against my barn, and had absolutely no idea what to do next. I’d read everything I could find online…
The call I dread most comes in spring. A neighbour — usually a new homeowner — rings to tell me their yard is being eaten alive by bamboo. Last April it was a woman two streets over who discovered running…
Three years ago, a neighbour two streets over knocked on my door in a panic. She had just bought her home and discovered bamboo pushing up through the gravel under her garden shed. The previous owners had planted a golden…
I’ve spent the last 15 years growing bamboo — commercially and on my own 3-acre property in the Pacific Northwest. I currently cultivate 14 species, sell poles and plants to landscapers and homeowners, and probably spend 30 to 40 days…