re: Freaking Bamboo

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.