Killing bamboo

You are fricked

its worst then the worst weed you can think of

fire and gasoline is a good start just to sorta control the regrowth. after that maybe bury it under a pile of old plywood so it cant get sunlight

that shite will grow through anything and poison barely has any effect on it.

about the best course is controlled burns followed by lots of digging with a shovel if you are serious about getting rid of it

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How to I kill this stuff?!

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gasoline
then dig it up
then salt the ground

You can only manage it. In the spring it sends up shoots and you can easily kick them over. Once the shoot gets tall you have to dig its root system up to kill that shoot. Bamboo spreads by underground runners much like lawn grass and the runners are just below the surface and sometimes come above ground. You need to find as many of these runners as you can and sever them.

Your neighbor is an a-hole. Getting rid of it is a full time job.

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My neighbor planted bamboo on the fence line and now it’s taking over my lawn and the drainage servitude. Worried about bugs/rats! How to I kill this stuff?!

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I'd start by banging his wife and recording it.

At my first house in SLC we built a lap pool with bamboo as a barrier, and the landscape architect required a 36"(?) metal plate in the plant bed along my neighbors fenceline to keep it from spreading. In the second year it was screwing up my neighbors yard and invading his shrubs. Hence banging his wife to get a least some satisfaction, because bamboo is about to rape you.

I've seen bamboo runners go 20 feet or more away from the main plant before they come up.
No way to get rid of it, unless you rid of the entire plant.

yeah I wasn’t kidding.
I had it invading at my old house in mandeville

I burned it, dug it up with an excavator and dumped ice cream salt all over the ground

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My neighbor planted bamboo on the fence line and now it’s taking over my lawn and the drainage servitude.

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Keep it from spreading to your yard by digging a trench...

Clumping or trailing.

I did a job for a woman a few years back that had bamboo along her and her neighbors fence. Maybe 3’in depth and 25’ long.

We excavated it about 3’ down. The fricker shot out the risomes runners 6-8’ away and started to try to restablish. Hit it 3-4 times over the entire yard with a high end herbicide, then excavated more. It was like a 6 month process I shite you not. I will never ever plant bamboo u less it’s contained but concrete planter walls