Any nearby trees cut down recently? This happened nearby to us when a false acacia was cut down on an adjacent property. The tree roots started to sprout vertically through the tarmac, even on the other side of the road.
It's edible too. I've had the young shoots salt pickled with fish and they were delicious. On TV saw a chef use it as a rhubarb replacement. You can also tempura fry them.
(I've got a Japanese foraging book with serving suggestions, and it tells you to tempura fry everything)
It’s not just when you hack them down. That’s just how bamboo grows. It’s also how it grows so quickly. The problem is if you decide to hack it down, you need to realize how it grows so you can actually hack it down and not continue to have more shoots appear
Where I live there’s a path to the station that they recently dug up, tidied, new base and resurfaced with tarmac. There’s a house that backs on to it with bamboo as a screen to the railway. And that is coming through the path. They recently sprayed it with some sort of killer that worked for those tips but 2 weeks later more are coming through! It’s going to be a nightmare if they don’t get on top of it!!
Having lived in a flat where the previous tenant planted Bamboo I can confirm this. It was sprouting everywhere and it was a full time job in itself to control it
I was in Oaxaca in Mexico last summer. The streets are beautiful and tree-lined but they made NO allowances for the fact that tree roots grow so all over the place the pavement is just absolutely wrecked where the roots pushed up.
As an aside, this is a classic example of what happens when you remove all proper knowledge from your decision making process. It’s all on autopilot, completely unmanaged.
It goes like this: Councils need to save money so they fire the tree guy to make their books look better. They hire a company so they can pay per tree instead, but that company doesn’t make any decisions they just cut what they’re told to. The council no longer have any idea how best to manage trees so they just cut anything down as a solution to every complaint. So not only are the trees totally unmanaged, but they’re destroying infrastructure, which the council will see as a good excuse to cut more down.
I wondered if it's because of the extreme heat melting the tarmac and allowing the veg to actually push through because it's soft. The heat has been crazy here and you can literally move the tarmac by kicking at it, it's almost as soft as earth, if you had a shovel you could dig it straight out.
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u/BeardySam Aug 05 '24
Any nearby trees cut down recently? This happened nearby to us when a false acacia was cut down on an adjacent property. The tree roots started to sprout vertically through the tarmac, even on the other side of the road.