Kill their bamboo, then the neighbor

by allen
(Oceanside)

The best non digging method I have found; cut stalks after they are about 1/2" thick, immediately flood the cut with the strongest herbacide you can get, so it is absorbed into the small tube inside the stalk. Round up works on foilage if repeated, and Vapam does well too. If the stalks haven't gotten big enough, and, there is foliage, drench the foliage with the strongest herbacide available, repeatedly over the course of a few weeks. If the foliage turns brown, it won't soak up any more herbacide, so don't waste it and your money.

Another way, if it's away from any windows or neighbors who will complain, drench the area with diesel fuel. I mean drench it, and then do it again in a few weeks. If you want to plant something else there, wait several months before doing so.

Our bamboo was generously donated to my yard, by our thoughtful neighbor who planted it without knowing the repurcussions, or anything else about bamboos. Of course, it's not running all over his yard, just mine.

If you plant bamboo, use only a clumping type, like green stripe or a smaller/shorter type. Green stripe is beautiful, but get's 40" tall.

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Kill their bamboo, then the neighbor

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Jan 12, 2011

NO HERBACIDE
by: CYBERKNIGHT2010

USING HERBACIDE IS REDICULOUS, WE WANT AWAY FROM HERBICIDES, THEY ARE POISON

May 11, 2011

I hate bamboo!!
by: Anonymous

I recently moved into a new house to find that I had inherited bamboo. It had already spread across the lawn and was sprouting everywhere.

We had it dug out which was a massive task but we can't get to the roots under the lawn.

I'm obsessed by checking for new sprouting bamboo which I cut off straight away.

Can someone reassure me that eventually it will die. Please!!!!!! I'm having nightmares.

May 13, 2011

Mowing new shoots
by: Caroline

I did the same thing with some that I chopped down three years ago and hadn't got enough energy or resources to dig the roots out.

Last year I had a few small shoots come up in the main area of where the roots were that I chopped off immediately and they didn't grow again that year. About a week ago I noticed six shoots poking out of the ground in the same place so chopped them off.

It seems to have dramatically weakened the plant but it doesn't appear to be completely gone yet. However, I must say that before I chopped it down it was sending up runners 8 ft from the plant in all directions and none of those have come up since I initially chopped it down three years ago. Not a single one.

If it is on a lawn and you keep stopping the shoots from growing it will eventually be gone I'm sure.

Jun 05, 2011

It won't die
by: kevin

I have lived in my house for 5 years with a modest clump of bamboo, sprouting away from the clump. This year, a dozen sprouts, all 10 feet away from the clump in all directions. Obviously the shoots can live underground without their own sprout for many years as long as there is a primary source to feed them. In this case our primary clump was supporting numerous underground shoots that are now planning their takover of my lawn. And my clump seems connected to a lazy neighbor's clump. Time to get copper pipes...

Jul 27, 2011

4 years to erradicate
by: Anonymous

I have heard that if you cut it down and keep all new growth cut it will take 4 years to completely kill the clump. It must be in an area where you can completely see and get rid of all new growth, no hiding places for it to come up in shrubs or in the woods.

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