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Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 247
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:16 pm: | 
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2 issues: I planted 2 babmoo plants (about 7' tall) in huge plastic planters, submerged about a foot into the ground (didn't want the buggars to spread). I put fertilized potting soil in each container. They appear to be dying. The leaves are turning tan (have been since I got them about 4 months ago. Does this normally happen in winter? or are they dying?
I also have a holly bush, the kind with the pretty purple-ish stalk. It looks anemic--clumpy leafy areas, then long leafeless stalk, followed by little clumps of leaves. It seems not to grow much at all. I've had it a year, and it's about 4' at the highest point. I like the height, but maybe I should prune it because it is not filling out? Would that encourage growth? How and when to prune?
Any tips welcome. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8843
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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Do they have drainage? |
Elizabeth
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Username: Momof4peepers
Post Number: 23
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:10 am: |
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No advice on either, but have you considered calling the place where you bought them to ask? Or called a Master Gardener program from the Rutgers Cooperative? Figuring that if you knew the species (rather than just "babmboo" or "holly bush" - this should be on the stick that came with the plant) they might be able to tell you if this is just normal behavior for those varieties. |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 248
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:04 am: |
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Unfortunately, the Bamboo didn't come with a real name. The guy at the garden place (in Orange?) said it was the clumping kind, but I inspected the roots and it looked like the spreading kind. So I put it in huge contianers. The huge plastic pot has the hole in the bottom. The label said that to avoid bamboo invasion, one should plant in a "non-perforated" container, so I guessed I was doing alright.
Does anyone konw of anything like this (mapleowood online) for plants/gardening? |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 249
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:05 am: |
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Elizabeth: What's this: "a Master Gardener program from the Rutgers Cooperative"? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12848
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:35 am: |
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I have a ton of bamboo you can have. We're taking it out because the folks who planted it didn't contain it. It is extremely hearty!
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Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 250
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
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TR: Thanks! I need to find out more about replanting, etc. When are you removing it? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12849
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 11:19 am: |
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My wife spent a lot of last spring and summer removing it. It's going to take a long time. We will continue now that the weather is warm. We may not even finish this year. You're welcome to come and take as much as you like.
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Elizabeth
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Username: Momof4peepers
Post Number: 26
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
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To plant bamboo, it sounds like you did ok (putting it in the large pot). I think you need a 24" non-permeable barrier (thick plastic) because the roots will hit it and then turn back around. A master gardener is a program run through (I think) all state universities cooperative extension service. I suspect that there's one at Rutgers (the same place where you can get your soil tested). You can usually call the cooperative extension and ask your questions of gardeners who are trained in local growing conditions.
Another thought would be to find a bamboo specialty grower and just call and ask them.
There are TONS of gardening sites out there. Like everything, some more frequented than others. |
Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Momof4peepers
Post Number: 27
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 11:24 am: |
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With apologies to Newstead Mom for just copying her info from another thread (I hope this doesn't violate some MOL user agreement....)
Newstead Mom wrote:
A great online gardening site is:
http://www.rce.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Cooperative Extension has offices and agents in every county in NJ, and our local one is the Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland. There you can purchase soil testing kits that you fill with your soil sample and mail in. The results will be mailed in a few weeks. Or you can drop them off in person at the Soil Testing Lab located on the Cook College campus in New Brunswick.
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