I am selling live bamboo plants.
I have 2 varieties of bamboo for sale a solid green one "Bissetii Dwarf" Phyllostachys Bissetii that can grow 1 inch thick and 18 feet tall, and a yellow kind with a green stripe "Spectabilis" Phyllostachys aureosulcata that can grow a maximum of 2 inches in diameter & 30 feet tall. Both varieties are evergreen running types of bamboo and are great for year round screening, privacy fencing, garden supports, and the shoots are edible. My goats love eating bamboo especially in the winter. Plants are dug up on order and will have 2-4 culms/shoots per root block and are $30 each. Or I have 1 culm/shoot root blocks for $15 each.

Some common questions people ask are:

•When does bamboo grow?
-Bamboo will send up new shoots/culms in the springtime. These shoots will develop into a full culm over the course of 30 to 60 days. After that point the remaining portion of the spring and summer the bamboo will focus on developing rhizomorphic growth underground.

•How fast and far do they spread?

-They will typically double each year for the first 3 years after transplanting. For example; if one was to plant a 3 culm root block, the following spring it will most likely send up 3 more culms. The 2nd year 6 culms. The 3rd year 12 culms. Once the Grove is established it will tend to increase in height and start to spread out. This will vary depending on soil conditions & how often they're watered and fertilized.

At this point the distance it will spread will be in proportion to the height of the outermost culm. For example; if the outermost culm of the grove is 7 feet tall, then over the spring and summer months it will grow rhizomes out 7 feet underground for the following springs culms to grow from.

•How do you contain bamboo from getting out of control?

-There are a few methods in managing bamboo.
1. Grow bamboo in a container
-This is one of the most assured way of containing bamboo. Galvanized water troughs, IBC tanks, large planters, sealed raised beds, and so on are good candidates.

2.Grow bamboo with a root barrier.
-This consists of burying a thick plastic roll of root barrier 1.5-3 feet deep with a few inches protruding above ground. This is typically installed with a trencher. This essentially creates a large container buried in the ground. However sometimes rhizomes can find splits in the seams and sneak its way out or if the root barrier. If the root barrier isn't high enough above ground or gets partially buried a rhizome can grow over it too

3. Cut new rhizome growth.
-During the dormant season in fall and winter, one would cut a perimeter around the bamboo with a sharpened shovel or trencher. This essentially cuts the new rhizome growth from the supply of nutrients that is provided from the main grove and starves the rhizome from sending new culms up in the spring.

4. Harvest young culm shoots for eating or mowing shoots when developing.
-This is the most easiest and tastiest way of managing of bamboo however, this does not prevent rhizomorphic growth underground. When the culm is developing the shoots are very tender and fragile which makes it easy to be broken off or cut. Once a shoot is broken it will cease to continue growth and abort.

5. Cut fully developed culms.
-When the culms have fully reached their full height and developed branches and leaves, cutting them at that point robs all the nutrients and resources the rhizomes have accumulated to create such growth. If this is done year after year growth will lessen and eventually The Grove will die due to not having new leaves to provide photosynthesis to sustain its growth.

6. Dig up new Culms after they are fully developed.
-This is my preferred method of management. New culms that grow and fully mature I dig up and transplant to a more suitable area, fill in gaps if the grove to create screening, or sell to people such as yourself.


Please let me know if you have any questions.

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