Looks like it's going to rain today. Dang! I was hoping it would hold off until tonight. Since I can't work outside today, I took a few photos of our progress.
Here's the "before" photo. The bamboo patch fills the parking area and has spilled out into the gravel driveway.
Here's where we are now. We cut the whole thing back a couple of feet, back to the front of the parking area, then we focused on the right half and got about 3/4 of the way back.
We did it that way because our neighbors (the source of the bamboo) were out in their yard having a barbecue on Saturday, and we thought it best to stay back from the fence while they were right there. It would have been really weird for us to suddenly emerge from the bamboo in the middle of their barbecue. We're going to have to figure out something for that fence when the bamboo is gone.
Here's what the ground looks like as we work. Whatever you do, don't fall!
Does anyone need bamboo? After I take all I need for trellising the sugar snaps, we still have hundreds of canes. It's about 1/2" thick and 10-12' long.
The other thing I was going to tell you about disposing of bamboo-- D took it to the Chapel Hill dump, and got yelled at because he didn't cover the truck with a tarp. I think they sent him away and made him come back? Anyway- if you end up taking it somewhere, find out what the rules are first.