Those of you in the north east and upper midwest -

[hedgehog]

which is the worst pest you have to deal with?

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	Multiflora rose
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	poison ivy
	1 (50%)
	kids on ATVs
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[Scuba]

1. Snowmobiles.

[hedgehog]

2. Why do people assume that any ground more than 10 ft from a house is

public property?

[gejohnston]

3. kids on ATVs are universal

although drunks on wave runners are the worst.

[hedgehog]

5. I figured that for Southerners, kudzu is the worst!

[gejohnston]

11. Kudzu is invasive and a problem

but it doesn't cause noise and air pollution.

[woodsprite]

4. Throw a whole lot of bamboo and English ivy in with the poison ivy.

When we bought the house 8 yrs ago we didn't realize how aggressive they both were and
the roots are all intermixed with roots from 50+ foot tall oak trees.

I told my husband that we need to adopt a live panda as our next pet.

Anybody have any ideas how to get rid of bamboo?

[hedgehog]

6. Every spring, my husband lloks the other way as I palnt like crazy, but he alsways has these

words of advice "Whatever you do NO BAMBOO!

[Denninmi]

7. I LOVE my bamboo.

I have 7 or 8 species, mostly in the genus Phyllostachys. The largest I have is P. nigra 'Henon' which gets to about 25 feet tall here. I would really like to have a timber bamboo, but none are truly hardy here.

Bamboo doesn't grow here in the same way it does in mild climates. It only has one year flush of growth, with all shoots emerging over a period of a few weeks. Remove unwanted ones, and that's basically it for the year, a few secondaries may grow, but same principle.

Here is a hedge of bamboo I planted about 7-8 years ago to screen view of neighbor's yard. The new culms in the front of the bed are growing up and through the area I have Jerusalem Artichokes. I will leave them for about 2 more weeks until hardened, so I can use them as stakes, then I will cut the ones that are beyond their area. Many, many more shoots came up out in the grass, the lawnmower cut those off, and they do not regrow.

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[hedgehog]

8. I think the key is that you have to keep after them!

I end up buying bundles of bamboo stakes and using them all over the garden. I have to admit, I doubt I could control a planting of bamboo!

[Denninmi]

9. Or avoid the running bamboos and just plant clumpers.

Almost all of the species in the genus Fargesia are clump forming, and don't have the issue of getting out of bounds.

[HereSince1628]

10. Interesting that no one in the midwest is saying european buckthorn or prickly ash.

these things are really a pain as both have sharp points and both spread like wild-fire.

I wonder if that's because I'm so lucky to have both of these things or if people feel they aren't upper enough in the midwest?