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When Bamboo Attacked My Concrete Patio: A $3,000 Lesson in Root Barriers

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When Bamboo Attacked My Concrete Patio: A $3,000 Lesson in Root Barriers

I still remember the sound — a low, muffled crack coming from the back patio on a Tuesday morning in late April. I thought maybe a branch had fallen overnight. What I found instead was a two-inch fissure splitting my concrete patio nearly in half, and a tangle of pale bamboo rhizomes snaking right through … Read more

How I Removed 300 Square Feet of Bamboo By Myself (And Lived to Tell the Tale)

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How I Removed 300 Square Feet of Bamboo By Myself (And Lived to Tell the Tale)

The day I realized my bamboo had eaten my neighbor’s flower bed was the day I knew things had gotten serious. What started as a charming little privacy screen along my back fence had quietly — sneakily — spread six feet into Linda’s yard, strangling her hostas and creeping under her garden shed. She knocked … Read more