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Offline jonathan creason

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Japanese arrow boo
« on: December 02, 2010, 06:01:36 pm »
How bad does this stuff spread?  The reason I ask is I stumbled on a big patch of it today and am considering possibly transplanting some.  Of course, since I know where to find it I may be just as well to go there if I need more, but the idea of walking out my back door to cut arrow shafts is appealing.  I'm a typical suburbanite with 0.6 acres of land, and I don't want it to spread all over my neighbor's land (well, maybe if he doesn't make his dog shut the hell up), but I do have an area across the back property line that was an old fence row and is kind of a waste area now.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2010, 06:58:06 pm »
How big was the patch you found. It will spread at least that much!  ;D
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Offline jonathan creason

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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2010, 09:40:54 am »
 ;D Good point, Pat.  I wonder how long it took to get that big?  I'll probably just go there and cut some culms every-once-in-a-while, but it would be nice not to have to climb through a dang briar thicket to cut them.
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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 01:08:36 pm »
 I just killed all mine with Round-Up. It was sending runners up everywhere. I hope the ones make it that are coming up in my neighbors yard, now.
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Offline jonathan creason

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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2010, 02:57:15 pm »
Quote from: mullet on December 03, 2010, 01:08:36 pm
I just killed all mine with Round-Up. It was sending runners up everywhere. I hope the ones make it that are coming up in my neighbors yard, now.

Doesn't sound like it'll be worth it at all.  Oh well, the place I found them is pretty secluded so I can slip in there a few times a year to cut culms.
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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 09:30:02 am »
You could alway just deignate an area just for it. Make enough room around the boo to mow a few feet on all sides....Just a thought.
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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2010, 03:05:03 pm »
hillbilly, mine were sending up shoots twenty feet from the clump. And the clump was surrounded on four sides by concrete.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2010, 03:56:07 pm »
Don't plant any boo unless you are prepared to deal with it taking over for a long time.  If you know where some is already planted, use that. It is a renewal resourse so use that as a selling point to get permission to harvest.
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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2010, 07:12:30 pm »
Quote from: mullet on December 05, 2010, 03:05:03 pm
hillbilly, mine were sending up shoots twenty feet from the clump. And the clump was surrounded on four sides by concrete.

See. I learn somthing new every day ;) Ok. Ok. Then I'd plant it in the middle of the yard ::) Never mind. I don't know if I'd have a yard that big to controll it :-\ Besides. I really hate to mow ;D
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Re: Japanese arrow boo
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2010, 10:37:20 pm »

     Cut the Briars..... ;)  Plant some other pants to screen the boo. ;D

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