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Freaking Bamboo
Posted on 4/9/22 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 4/9/22 at 6:17 pm
We moved into a new house a year ago. Leveled the backyard, landscaped it to the nines and put in our dream pool. Our neighbor has bamboo spreading into our yard on one side. We've been out every days cutting shoots down to below ground level. Is there anything else we can do to keep it under control / kill it? Any tips? Our neighbor is a super cool guy and we don't want to raise it with him. Just want to keep it from starving out our landscaping.
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Posted on 4/9/22 at 6:36 pm to Badbilly1974
We've been fighting this fight for 10+ years. 
It's at its worst this time of year. Keep cutting those shoots as they come up. If it's a manageable length of property line, best thing to do is install a barrier a foot or two in the ground, to keep new runners out of your yard.
It's at its worst this time of year. Keep cutting those shoots as they come up. If it's a manageable length of property line, best thing to do is install a barrier a foot or two in the ground, to keep new runners out of your yard.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 6:38 pm to shell01
Good advice. Thanks! Need to talk to my landscaper about a barrier. It’s a relatively small section of the yard.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 9:15 pm to Badbilly1974
Cut a trench a few feet under the bamboo line and fill with concrete or the crap will grow on You and never stop!
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Posted on 4/9/22 at 9:23 pm to Badbilly1974
Every plant from the Far East is the devil invasive kill kill kill & barriers
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:19 pm to Badbilly1974
It takes a while, but roundup (glyphosate) will kill it. Just mix a little dish soap in the sprayer with it. If you don’t want to kill the grass beneath it, just soak a rag or paper towel in the mixture and wipe it on the leaves and stalk.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:41 pm to Badbilly1974
Bamboo is worse than crape myrtle. Kill it with fire, but it won’t work.
Posted on 4/9/22 at 10:47 pm to Badbilly1974
Adopt some Panda Bears
Posted on 4/9/22 at 11:06 pm to KPOC
quote:kris
call me kris
Posted on 4/10/22 at 5:37 am to Badbilly1974
2% roundup plus 1% remedy ultra to the point of runoff when shoots get say 6 inches or so. You have to have enough exposed vegetation out to get enough chemicals into the plants to attack the massive root system. Remedy is a tree killer but will not leave a residual so you are good as long as you don’t spray it on desirable plants. That combination will take down a 40 foot oak tree. Chances are you will have to spray several times but it works
Posted on 4/10/22 at 9:39 am to Badbilly1974
I had a ton of it on my back fence line. The flood of 2016 killed it all and has not grown back since. So no telling what was in the flood waters
Posted on 4/10/22 at 10:40 am to Badbilly1974
ive got the same problem but with my neighbors cypress knees. they are getting close to my pool
Posted on 4/10/22 at 11:10 am to Badbilly1974
I'm in the same boat. I had to rip up a bunch of my yard because the previous homeowner hadn't taken care of it and let the bamboo spread everywhere.
Physically ripping up the runners is the only guaranteed way to keep it out but it's hard work. At some point the rhizomes crisscross and it's like untangling pieces of iron rope. This is a few days of digging that i did and hardly made a dent in it.
If you keep cutting the new shoots down and mix up some glyphosate and 2,4-D with some dish soap or spreader sticker to spray on the cut end of the rhizome it seems to kill them pretty well. You might have to reapply and in a few weeks you'll be able to pull up a dead, brittle rhizome. This method has worked pretty well for me.
Just stay at it. Eventually you'll push it back far enough that you can put a barrier up. It'll never "end" without your neighbor ripping out his bamboo so a barrier is your next best option.
Physically ripping up the runners is the only guaranteed way to keep it out but it's hard work. At some point the rhizomes crisscross and it's like untangling pieces of iron rope. This is a few days of digging that i did and hardly made a dent in it.
If you keep cutting the new shoots down and mix up some glyphosate and 2,4-D with some dish soap or spreader sticker to spray on the cut end of the rhizome it seems to kill them pretty well. You might have to reapply and in a few weeks you'll be able to pull up a dead, brittle rhizome. This method has worked pretty well for me.
Just stay at it. Eventually you'll push it back far enough that you can put a barrier up. It'll never "end" without your neighbor ripping out his bamboo so a barrier is your next best option.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 3:06 pm to Ingeniero
I’m with you—complete removal of root ball and rhizomes is the best way to go. Not a chemical person. The best tools for removal: 1. sawsall with long limb-pruning blade (to cut stalks and rootball) 2. Long (69”), heavy (16#) post hole digging pole—it’s a metal pole with a flattened end that will cut through and pry out rootball. This is hard, slow work. But guaranteed result. I’m taking out a long fence line of bamboo. It’s a clumping (not runner) bamboo but still hard to maintain to a restricted area.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 4:01 pm to Badbilly1974
Diesel
Posted on 4/10/22 at 4:16 pm to Badbilly1974
I'll trade you bamboo shoots for cypress knees.
Posted on 4/10/22 at 7:06 pm to Badbilly1974
I dug out and installed a 1/8 inch metal barrier on 98 liner feet along my property line. Four feet deep. The outcome will make you depressed. Perhaps I did something wrong, I don't know.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:44 am to alpinetiger
Unless you dig out and install a deep 4” thick concrete barrier, you won’t stop it.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:35 pm to Geauxld Finger
I gave you all the answer but go ahead and suffer
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