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RE: I NEED YOUR HELP! Steemit Poll
having had bamboo I can only say DON'T lol You will constantly (and I really mean constantly, year after year, month after month) having to work on it to keep it in somewhat looking close to a format you were once (naivly) dreaming about... and it will grow rizomes all over the place.... nightmare! I would rather choose the first option you proposted, but... having been homesteading for almost 10 years now - consider the amount of shade/shadow this will create... I have a chestnut-wood "Staketen-fence" around my veggie garden (keeping kids, dog, chicken, rabbits etc. out) but letting enough sunlight inside.... Cheers from Germany!
I hadn't thought about the sunlight...and yes - I wasn't going to use bamboo, but willow. My mom has a large willow tree and you can put the sticks in the ground and they'll root...at least that's what the internet says!
Willow will work, but creates constant work almost like the bamboo - but without the rhizomes... I put some willow sticks in the ground just at the entrance to the veggiegarden two years ago and am working on an arc-shape... maybe you can see it on this pic... if you fence with willow, you'll have to work it into position/form and cut out all not needed branches all the time... we built an iglo from willow in kindergarden and last year nobody found the time to keep it in shape... so just now, today, hubby went there to chop the top off (it's a mess) with the motorsaw and I will try to "braide" the top back into a decent shape throughout the next year... will be a monthly task....