Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: jonathan creason on December 02, 2010, 06:01:36 pm
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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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How big was the patch you found. It will spread at least that much! ;D
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;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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cut the Briars..... ;) Plant some other pants to screen the boo. ;D
Wayne