permaculture

["Eugene F. Monaco" <efmonaco@comcast.net>]

Rick wrote:
>...Bamboo roots are at least as deep potentially as corn- which can go down
12 ft. Mike Brondi, on the flats along the Skagit with groundwater at 15ft.
finds that after 4-6 years he no longer has to irrigate a stand of bamboo.
So the roots go down 15 ft. there...<

This brings up another point, about dams:
I've always heard (haven't tried) that bamboo works well on the surface of
small dams because the roots don't go down that deep: that they form a mesh
reinforcing that holds things in place.  Now we're hearing that they can go
12 to 15' deep.  Does anybody envision a time bomb here?  A dam break can be
a nasty thing.
-Gene


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