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Bamboo Tunnels aka Bamboo Cathedral

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I searched quickly but didn't find immediately a dedicated Bamboo Tunnel thread so thought I'd start one.

Here's a whole gaggle of them, um, I mean a google of'm.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bamboo+ ... 80&bih=534

Repost your favorite if you'd like. Some of those are just incredible.

How could anyone not love this:
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Anyway, here's the bamboo tunnel I've been growing for about four or five years now (posted prior on a previous thread). You can see the cathedral ceiling just starting to form and the walls filling in nicely since that pic taken...

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But here's a gif I recently made of walking through a section of the tunnel. (I can't seem to post gif directly so to view animated gif just click the link provided below)

http://i828.photobucket.com/albums/zz20 ... 7479d2.gif
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Do you have to spray the ground with roundup or any weedkiller or manually remove any ivy/plant-ground-cover to make it look so clean?
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I very minimally poison as required in mulched areas so as not to disturb the mulch barrier by pulling weeds through it.

The tunnel though is very thickly mulched--both imported and self-mulched by both the boo and the pines--and I do both pull and poison some in there but less and less each year. Seriously, hardly at all. I don't like to poison so I'm real careful with that. Mostly now the only thing coming up is an invasive tree, some sort of cherry or something, I forget what it's called, which grows from extended root systems. I've got that about 95% under control compared to when I first bought here. My original idea for the place was a tunnel running the perimeter of about an acre and so I brought in truckloads of mulch, and I continue to maintain that whenever a tree guy is in the area. Also i harvest pine needles falling on the open areas where I've lawn. I've left two places hidden behind boo up front for tree guys to easily dump, convenient for them and works out well for me to pitchfork and wheelbarrow it into the gardens.

Within the clumps themselves, the boo stays very clean of weeds. It puts down such a mat of roots that I doubt a weed could get through it. I also notice in the numerous divisions I've done not a single bug inside those roots. No bugs, no weeds, boo is self-mulching messy yet clean. Such is the paradox of boo.
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Before a tree was uprooted and went crashing through the area, I had a tunnel through some bamboo that was much admired. All it took to maintain it was driving a riding lawn mower through it every time I mowed.
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