Hopefully you all will be able to help me with some questions I have about growing bamboo.
I just had a fence installed, and unfortunately the ground is not flat, so there are some gaps at the bottom of the fence. I was thinking I could build some raised garden beds along the base of my fence to block the gaps, and pretty up what otherwise is a very crappy yard (no grass, mostly trees).
Since bamboo is pretty invasive, I know it’s not something I would want to just plant anywhere. I was wondering if it would make any difference if I planted the bamboo in raised garden beds? Would that make it easier to control? If not, is there some other low-maintenance plant I could use that would look good along a fence?
Depends on the “raised bed” if you just do some board on the ground to make the dirt higher, the plants can still escape. If you have a raised “garden” where its soil in separate container raised off the ground, it’s fine. But it sounds like you want the former, not the latter, so don’t plant spreading stuff in them.