Controlling Your Bamboo with 5 Simple Solutions

Meta: Be sure to plan and position your bamboo thicket well and remember to regularly prune your bamboo to make sure that they remain lush but controlled.

Bamboo plants are so beautiful! I absolutely love them! They are the epitome of Zen in your garden. They are a beautiful, serene green color, and its stalks and leaves sway magnificently in the wind.

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Caption: Beautiful and serene, bamboo plants are the epitome of Zen.

People often wonder if bamboo is a grass or a tree. Bamboo is part of the Poaceae plant family, which is a family of grass plants. But did you know that some varieties of bamboo can grow up to 100 feet tall? In fact, giant bamboo is the largest members of the grass …show more content…
You will need to sever the rhizomes or spreading bamboo roots with any sharp gardening tool such as a spade. Luckily, the rhizomes are very shallowly rooted and usually grow in loose topsoil only 2 to 5 inches below the surface.
Next, you need to cut the rhizomes until about 2 feet from the part you intend to keep. Be sure to leave healthy rhizome attached to the bamboo so that new shoots can grow.
Finally, look around the area and remove any other rhizomes that are outside of your bamboo area. You want to make sure to completely get rid of any stray rhizomes because they can rejuvenate and become full bamboo in no time.

But what do you do with the bamboo that you cut down? You know what I love even more than bamboo? The giant pandas who eat them! In fact, a panda's diet consists almost entirely of bamboo - the leaves, the stems, and the shoots! But unfortunately, they contain a very little nutritional value, so pandas must eat around 12 to 38 kg of bamboo each to meet their daily energy needs. Since we’re on this subject, keeping a pet panda is also a good method of how to stop bamboo from spreading!

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Caption: The majestic giant panda munching away on the bamboo, its favorite