Non=invasive bamboo removal

Pleioblastus pygmaeus had taken over this area of the garden, killing almost everything else in the process and beginning to attack the pond liner. It had to be removed. The trouble is that the roots had spread far and wide, under a grass path and so that had to come up too. We are left with a space about 3 metres wide at its widest and about 5 metres long.
There are still bamboo roots in there so the whole area has to be dug.
As you can see, I found one or two house bricks, field stones (the kind of pebbbles one finds on North Wales beaches), s**** iron and up to now 4 buckets of broken glass, nails, crockery etc.
The final three pictures show some of the rocks we have uncovered.
These will be very useful, IF I can get them out, Hard to tell from the pictures but they are about 3 foot by 2 by 2 and HEAVY!
They are glacial erratics by the way and there is modern material underneath them so no archaeological problems.





I think there are more under the bit still to be dug.

 

wow - thats some job you've done. Hows your back :D I am very glad I don't have glacial stones in my garden.

What do you plan to do with new space?

 

Nice job Palustris, some serious large rocks, might Jetwash up nice ?

 

The area will be gravelled and the rocks used to delineate the path to the Bridge over the dry stream bed. Sparse planting of stream side type plants to follow.

 

A major job there, Palustris - but, as Fran says, go easy on the back with that little lot.

Plan sounds good! :D

 

Great job there Pal and so glad you are keeping the rocks. It's a lot of work but you're right though, you don't want bamboo anywhere near a pond

 

Just been and bought two more masonry cutting discs for the angle grinder. Tomorrow, weather permitting I will try to reduce the weight of the rocks so we can haul them out.

 

Some folk pay a fortune for those rocks. :D :D When we moved into or place, we had a pile of rocks, like a tomb. But with the aid of my landy, we towed some of them out a bit, and hubby created a pond.
and once done looked like this.

 

You sure have your work cut out for you Palustris!
Sounds good, it'll be nice when it is done. I wouldn't mind a load of such super rocks!

 

And very well used to Compostee. Looks very good.
We have found enough 'rock' to do a fair amount of work in the garden.
Here are a few of them.






And there are other places where we have utilised the 'rocks' too. All of them found in the garden!

 

Amazing what you've acheived in such a short space of time, Palustris! It's certainly cheaper to be able to dig great big rocks out of your garden to re-use somewhere as you've done, but it's a lot of work, as I know well! You must be fit, or possibly shattered.....

 

Hi palustris, well done on your re utilising your 'garden rubble spoil'. You've made very good use of them. I love all your pics.

 

Like the way you've used the stones, I can see it's been a lot of work but it must be very satisfying seeing the result.

 

Finished it today. Here are the pics of the finished area. I know it looks a bit empty, but it is a path and we do not want to plant up until we are sure all the bamboo is gone!

 

Well done, Palustris! That was a lot of heavy work - hope you had a few nice long cool drinks to keep you going, and a few nice cool beers after! :D