Feeding bamboos
>> Monday, March 7, 2016 –
bamboo,
fertilizer
Late winter (or very early spring if you're an optimist) is when I give my bamboos their first feeding of the year. It's commonly thought that running bamboo -- which spreads by underground rhizomes -- is such an "invasive" plant that you just stick it into the ground and it takes off.
Well, that's not strictly true. Bamboos are heavy feeders and in order to really thrive they need lots of nutrients (plus water). Sure they can still throw out a 15' (4.5m) rhizome even if they're not babied, but I'd much rather have a healthy, vigorous plant that I need to fight back than a weak one that may not look its best but is also not able to spread so much. So I fertilize three times a year.
