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re: Freaking Bamboo
Posted on 4/10/22 at 11:10 am to Badbilly1974
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.
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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.
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