Pendergrass Ranch - Big changes!

[PendergrassRanch]

Its not poisonous right?

 

[Southern by choice]

Bamboo will make an awesome hedge and grow quick...but it is hard to control... have you ever been around it? As it grows and continues to spread it comes up in the sharpest pointiest spikes you've ever seen. Can invade quickly...watch out out 'cause it will spear a foot/hoove whatever else steps on it. Even at 1/2 inch above ground. OUCH!

 

[PendergrassRanch]

Bamboo will make an awesome hedge and grow quick...but it is hard to control... have you ever been around it? As it grows and continues to spread it comes up in the sharpest pointiest spikes you've ever seen. Can invade quickly...watch out out 'cause it will spear a foot/hoove whatever else steps on it. Even at 1/2 inch above ground. OUCH!

Yeah I was just told that but I really don't see the problem. We will be disking the pasture yearly, and the goats would eat it down. It probably won't be able to jump the creek and would just grow along the fence line so we dont' have to have our neighbors face in our yard every day.

Someone poopooed it on facebook and suggested a boxwood. Boxwood is poisonous.

 

[bonbean01]

Someone in our area tried the bamboo border thing...and if you can keep it under control good...these people didn't and it is taking over their whole pasture quickly.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

I think it would work but I'm going to do more research

 

[SheepGirl]

I know the National Zoo has a panda habitat and there is bamboo growing around the whole exhibit and then they cut it down every once and a while and feed it to the pandas.

I think if you go with the bamboo you will have to invest in some pandas as well.

 

[jodief100]

I know the National Zoo has a panda habitat and there is bamboo growing around the whole exhibit and then they cut it down every once and a while and feed it to the pandas.

I think if you go with the bamboo you will have to invest in some pandas as well.

That woudl be sooooo cool. Make sure you post pictures of the pandas.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Peachick has Bamboo and her goats eat the leaves up as high as they can reach. In the summer time, they go in an lay in it to stay cool. They do not chew it down.

FYI, there is a type of Bamboo that is non invasive, meaning it does not spread like standard bamboo.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

There are actually quite a few different kinds of bamboo. Clumping and running are the two main categories. Some bamboo will only get 18 inches high, some can get 50 feet high. Make sure you research the type of bamboo you are getting!

 

[RemudaOne]

There are actually quite a few different kinds of bamboo. Clumping and running are the two main categories. Some bamboo will only get 18 inches high, some can get 50 feet high. Make sure you research the type of bamboo you are getting!

AND buy from a reputable grower