Re: Will solarization kill bamboo?

On Sun, 04 May 2008 17:32:47 -0500, Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <7vadneWBFJUGgIPVnZ2dnUVZ_q_inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> My old garden (14'x60') has two problems, on the left side where I've 
>> been growing green vegetables I have a terrible bamboo problem. On the 
>> right side where I've been growing tomatoes I have a wilt problem. I
have 
>> a new garden (15'x20') this year so I'm planning on letting at least
part 
>> of my old garden lay fallow.  I'm going to solarize the tomato side to 
>> kill the wilt pathogens. I've been using roundup on the bamboo but it's

>> never been able to eliminate it. I was wondering if solarization would 
>> kill bamboo? It's supposed to be pretty effective against weeds as well

>> as pathogens so it might work. On the other hand the bamboo might just 
>> punch it's way through the plastic.
>> 
>> One more question about solarization in general, does it work in New 
>> England? The papers I see on the web are from UC Davis. Ma is a lot 
>> cooler than Ca. For solarization to work it needs to get the soil 
>> temperature pretty high, will it get high enough here?
>
>Adopt a Border Collie.
>Pen it where the bamboo is. ;-)
>
>She killed mine and she's controlling my Star Jasmine for me at the 
>moment!
>-- 

They any good at controlling bindweed and morning glory? ;-)

CHarlie