Bamboo plants in run - Page 3

There is native bamboo everywhere. Cane used for fishing poles all threw the south is bamboo, native bamboo.

Interesting thread.

I am bumping this old thread because I have a bamboo problem. A rather bad one. And I haven't built my chicken coop yet. What if I placed my coop and run over the worst infestation site. Do you think the chickens would eat/destroy it all or would their poo fertilize it?

i have no idea

Killing bamboo is pretty easy if you know how. Cut it all down an till the ground if you can. That breaks it in to peaces from the single giant plant. The important part is spring. Bamboo only sprouts in spring an mine is now. After cutting it all down you walk around an break off the new shoots at the ground a few time in the spring. They are fragile as young shoots. After a year or 3 with no standing poles the plant will starve an die...

Chickens wont help you. Chickens are used to make bamboo grow faster in bamboo farms.

Have you consider growing Italian prune instead?  The prune give shade for the chicken from spring to fall and also provide prune for human and chickens.  My chickens love the sweet prune.

There are two types of bamboo, runners ie could spread fast in any and all directions, or clumpers stay in one place spread to maybe ten to thirty feet in diameter.

I live about forty-five miles north of Beaumont Texas and have both.

I have Black bamboo(runner) that is about six years old it hasn't grown over six high or about eight foot wide.

I have Leopard Bamboo(runner) six years old, it has spread in three directions,and its about five to six foot tall.

These two are seven years old.

I tried Moso which is one of the fastest and largest growing runners, but not enough rainfall or humidity here.

Your best bet is Buddha's Belly(Bambusa ventricosa) its a clumper, mine is about four years old about eight to 14 foot tall,it dies back when we have a hard winter, but roars right back in the spring.

check out these facts and please google bamboo you might be suprised at what it can do good or bad!

Bamboo has an average return on investment in the case of plantation of 3-5 years, as opposed to some 10 years for other types of wood. In short, bamboo is the material and even food of the future.

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Bamboo can be utilized in the production of renewable ethanol and diesel. Also, ecologically speaking, the utilization of bamboo may save our environment because of the massive amounts of carbon dioxide that is sequestered while it grows.

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I would worry that if the bamboo "escaped" and started growing on the outside of your run, it could become a  

"ladder" for predators to get into your run. 

It is not actually bamboo. It is Japanese knotweed/itadori, super invasive and a pain in my grass. I think getting rid of the stuff will be a labour of love/hate.