05/14/05, 11:01 AM
|
|
Gig'em
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Lexington Texas area
Posts: 1,198
|
|
|
I would be afraid that the bamboo would be one of the few things that might actually out do goats. My grandpa started a stand of bamboo back in the day for fishing poles. Now it has literally grown through the old farm house kithen about 50 feet from where he started it. It covers about half an acre now. It has been several decades but it is horribly invasive and once started, there is no way to stop it. However, you are in the hill country where there is less rain. This stand is just east of Austin where the earth is a bit softer and there is a bit more rain. I am assuming you are in a rockier area. Perhaps the bamboo would have a harder time. I have some potted bamboo from his stand and it always gets out of the pot through the drainage holes and makes plants each year that I have to kill out with great difficulty. I keep it outside year round on the northside of the house and it does survive in zone 8 even if we have unseasonable cold weather (like several nights in the twenties). I will never let mine out of the pot because of what it did to that old farm house, it flat ate it up right throught the house. If you have a large ranch and can put it way far away, you might try it, but if it takes hold, you will never elimanate it, even with goats! (IMO) Tough stuff!....Diane
__________________
Diane Rhodes
Feral Nature Farm
LaManchas, MiniManchas and Boers
|
