How are you keeping your bamboo from getting intermixed?

[chele]

those of us that grow alot of bamboo,id like to know how you are keeping your runners from getting intermixed ?

chele

[Iowaboo]

Planting them an acre apart. That should buy me time.

[boonatick]

Ive got a little over 50 kinds growing now,most of them are seperated by distance ,I try to plant ones that dont look too simaler to the nearby types so if they do reach eachother you can see the diff,I dug a small trench between my aurea and my decora they were aprouching eachother quickly I left the trench open so I should see any rhizomes when they hit the gap,,,you can use a power washer to rinse away dirt to expose rhizomes to follow them and then undig unwanted types I'm letting my spectablis aurea and yellow groove grow together,rgds

[green99]

It shouldn't be a problem, and even when intermixing all you need to do is dig up established and seperate culms. Any misalanious rhimozes could be seperated, but if top kill is complete that would be tough.