This invasive is incredibly hard to kill and LURVES North Carolina. Our side yard provided the most perfect growing conditions evAr and is currently covered in the stuff.
Hats off to Danny Hunt at Hunt Surveying for getting in there and finding that damn property line, marked with orange surveyors tape. You, good sir, are brave.
Here you can see the jungle and our various game faces that we employ to scare the bamboo.
Using the pictured orange machete we spent about two hours hacking at bamboo. Yes, there are probably more expedient methods to initially remove bamboo stalks, but how often do either of us have the opportunity to wear ourselves out hacking at stuff with a machete?
Our destruction- a pile of bamboo stalks about four and a half feet tall and as many feet wide. Sun is shining on parts of the side yard that have probably not seen light in years. We were also able to pull a contractor bag of junk out of the bamboo.
Little known facts about slumlords:
1. They will go around their ass to reuse anything that has not been utterly destroyed yet.
2. Nothing is ever hauled off site- yards that are covered in ivy, or in this case, bamboo, make the perfect dumping ground for any materials that have been utterly destroyed.
It's not because they particularly care about craftsmanship or recycling or their impact on the environment;they are just cheap.
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