Here’s a bamboo removal job we did. The homeowner planted bamboo along a fence 20 years ago for privacy, and as is the nature of bamboo, it spread into their yard and is even threatening their foundation. Bamboo is incredibly resilient, and without proper removal of the root system, it will continue to regenerate. To properly remove it, let’s get to know it.
After 20 years of perfect conditions, you will notice that the bamboo patch has 3 sections that can be analogous to an outward expansion of a huge urban city. This futuristic culture gets all of its energy from the sun. Tall skyscrapers are outfitted with millions of solar panels shaped like leaves. Sunlight is converted to energy and stored below ground in its roots. The inner-city root mass in turn supports the leaves by supplying them with water and nutrients. Excess energy stored in the roots supports infrastructure expansion. This bamboo community is much more advanced than we are, and its system is highly efficient.
The core root mass is well established. 4-6 feet from the fence, the neighborhood changes a bit. Runners, analogous to roads, highways, and freeways, become a network of metropolitan urban sprawl, similar to Yonkers, New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Rye and Westchester County. Energy is running back and forth like cars, intersecting and crossing roads connecting the dense suburbs. New solar factories and buildings supply their local communities with energy and transmit their excess energy to support more expansion projects. This part of the bamboo patch had spread out by another 4 feet.
This bamboo community isn’t satisfied with that. Its economy is so profitable that it now wants to take over the whole world. It has sent out long runners, leading away from the city, where there is fresh land and plenty of space. The runners have set up rhizomes, or outposts along the way with EV charging stations. They will eventually become their own communities, but at this point in their development, they mostly run in a straight line, rarely connecting with other highways. The runners out here in the new frontier, are looking for more space to lay down roots and build another solar farm.
And now Poison Ivy Patrol comes along and must destroy their society. It’s almost sad now, but they have already spread to our client’s deck and soon their back yard will be one huge bamboo patch. We took down the fence and went after the core root mass, digging about 4 ft down, and then expanded to the suburbs. We dug up the runners that we could see and came back every couple of weeks, whenever new shoots came up. It’s not necessary to dig up the runners out on the border lands, if the shoots are cut and not allowed to form leaves. Once they are severed from the core root-mass, and are deprived of sunlight, they don’t have enough energy to survive.
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