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Poster: Michael James (see this users gallery) Like the last pic, this culm was from last spring's new shoots. Still waiting arrival of this year's new shoots. They should be a bit larger. Robert Young is used in Japan for furniture construction and can reach 2.5 inches in diameter at about 32 feet in height. All my bamboos are confined in a roughly 300 foot, Moso-rated, containment wall to prevent unauthorized spread. The wall extends 30 inches into the soil, to clay.
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Bob

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Registered: September 2008
Location: Washington Twp N.J.
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Wed May 13, 2009 8:19pm

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What is your containment wall made of?

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Eric

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Wed May 13, 2009 9:58pm

Hi Bob,
The containment wall is made of high-density polyethylene plastic. It's typically called a 'rhizome barrier'. It comes in 300 foot rolls (at about $4 per foot) and is 60 mil thick (a tad thicker than a credit card). Also, there is about a 10 cents per foot shipping fee. The wall I bought is 30 inches wide and the seam is secured using a 2-sided tape with polypropylene glue.
The width, of the wall, is buried (vertically but at a slight angle outward from the contained section) about 29 1/2 inches in the ground; it works best if you can reach clay, when you dig, and posthole diggers are a great tool for the job.
I abandoned the idea of using cement since it is notorious for developing cracks underground which the runners can penetrate. Metals are also out of the question due to rust which could poison the plants.
Unfortunately (due to the underground phone-line), I had to have two seams to form the wall (the fewer seams you have to seal, the better). Don't remember where I bought my barrier, just now, but I know Bamboosourcery.com stocks barriers to include the Moso-rating of 30" wide by 60 mil thick.
Hope this is of some help.
By the way, I noticed that each new photo I submit to my album seems to be popping up on the home page of Bamboo.org. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? The idea of pushing everybody else's great photos aside kind of bothers me.
Michael James

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