If you have 25 foot canes the rhizome is 25 feet also, if you have 10 shoots new canes you will have between 15 to 20 rhizomes running underground with the same length as a shoot. So pop ahead five years with unchecked growth.....
Chemicals to Kill Bamboo
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If you have 25 foot canes the rhizome is 25 feet also, if you have 10 shoots new canes you will have between 15 to 20 rhizomes running underground with the same length as a shoot. So pop ahead five years with unchecked growth.....
Old Man Roger
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When I would see yards completely engulfed with bamboo, I would always say ''I don't know why anyone would want that'' Now I suspect maybe they didn't..lol
Makes a great privacy hedge.
As much as everybody hates bamboo it has been a very important plant in the development of man.
& the only plant that contains silica portland cement is the best fertilizer....
Kaizen
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I planted two versions after seeing a bamboo garden. Ten plants from your neck of the woods. Six months and it was a three foot privacy fence. That was 15 years ago. Yes I installed two foot barrier. Haven’t fertilized or watered since. Love that it stays green well into our cold winters. Every year I neaten it up and ignore it.
Put my garage 4 feet from it.
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My neighbor has bamboo on his side of the fence. It pops up as far as 20-30ft into my yard. I cut it at the ground and immediately spray the chute with a very concentrated brush killer-can’t remember the name. Those chutes don’t come back but there are new chutes every week when I cut the grass, I just mow the ones in the grass vs cutting the ones in my flower / shrub beds.
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Nowater
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Water softener salt may help.
58Yeoman
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Had a dozen Locust trees cut down a couple years ago, and am still getting shoots coming up 15 feet away. Damn.
Kaizen
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Some work but this will solve it.
Sidewalk Shield - Tree Root Control Barrier (Heavy Duty - 36 inch Depth, 15 feet) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071JVYJ41/?tag=atomicindus08-20
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Old Man Roger
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I've seen Australian pines go under brick walls..
Jacko264
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When we had it in the garden I cut it down to about 150mm below ground and poured old cellulose thinners on it and we have not seen it any more that was about 6 years ago
Graham
Graham
Thats a great solution! I bet it would be a task doing that for my along my 150ft fence line, I suppose it would need to be as close to the properly line because I imagine the shoots will sprout up right next to the barrier. Wonder how deep the bamboo shoots go? Could probably rent a trenching machine to did the ditch?
I've been fighting for 1.5 years. I spray with roundup periodically. It's much weaker this winter than it was last winter. You either have to dig it out (not an option for me) or interrupt photosynthesis (Roundup or physical cover). I'm definitely winning the fight, but it's going to take a bit longer.
Kaizen
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In your area I’m not sure how deep. Might be 3 feet. Think I would rent a trencher or dig it over a few days. Hard standing in a narrow trench and dig. Yea the barrier is installed on a slight slope so when the rhizome gets to it its directed up and not down. It will make a line of them and once a year just make sure the barrier has a few inches above dirt. The bamboo will try to jump the barrier sometimes but a chop and pull takes care of it. Ask locally to a knowledgeable person to make sure all of above it right. Much different weather then me.
There is another thread here on *********** bamboo if your neighbor does not want it.
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You bury it 30 inches and leave 6 inches on top. Bamboo will go up and over the barrier you have to watch yearly.
Bamboo likes the top two inches of dirt, but as that gets filled it will go deeper. And it will move towards sources of water.
A person did a 5 by 5 by four foot deep box and planted bamboo in it. After several years he had 30 footers in the box. Seemed like a good solution it was staying where he wanted it. Well the bamboo filled the box with rhizomes. When the box was full it went underneath it and popped up in the next yard over 30 feet away. We went through two sawzall to get it out. I have also seen it bust out of small containment's.
A bit of trivia the first working light bulb by Edison used carbonized bamboo as the filament.
InsanePyro
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Or grow through foundation walls, etc. We had a small plant (5-10 sprouts) because it's nice to look at, few years later we had several square feet of bamboo, and used a small excavator to dug it out. roots were yards away.
glentre
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I have an easement on my property where part of the neighbors septic field extends onto my land. The only thing I found that would give me privacy that wouldn't ruin his field pipes was bamboo. This species grows about 15 ft high but the rhizomes only go about 3" deep. Perfect for a fence.
Glen
Glen
When I was small boy our neighbors were enthusiastic fishermen and planted bamboos for fishing poles. The patch grew and grew and grew. The neighbor tried to keep it off of us by digging a ditch about 18 inches deep between us. It grew across the ditch. Finally the neighbor had enough. He cut down all the bamboo and walked over the patch with an axe and used the head of the axe to keep the shoots broke off. He got rid of the bamboo. I now own the property and there is no bamboo on it.
Re the op's problem, his problem is that the bamboo is hiding under a deck. Surely there is a way to get rid of his bamboo with out tearing the deck out to get to the bamboo. Good luck.
KEH
Re the op's problem, his problem is that the bamboo is hiding under a deck. Surely there is a way to get rid of his bamboo with out tearing the deck out to get to the bamboo. Good luck.
KEH
Bamboo is the perfect plant for land reclaiming from toxic dumping. The plant will pick up the waste, the only issue with this is the shoots are toxic and should not be eaten.
One of the joys of growing bamboo is the fresh shoots, nothing like what you get in a can or in a Chinese restaurant.
The Panda's much like the Chinese in relation to Panda activity are very picky. The zoo's over here had a lot of issue from temperate bamboo a runner only shoots in spring. They like Mountain bamboo which clumps and shoots regularly and does not do well in full sun.
glentre
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Again, it depends on the species of bamboo of which there are many. My clump in full sun grows shoots from spring, through summer and into fall. Seems like they all vary in their growth patterns and your ability to manage them. One size with regard to control doesn't fit all so the OP may have to use a variety of methods until he finds something that works for his type of bamboo.
Glen
The ability to control bamboo requires work, as most people avoid it. There is no wonder method or chemicals that will kill it.
The real problem is nobody understands how to control it. Currently it is getting a bad rap due to laws preventing plantings of it.
Doesn't matter the type there is really only two ways to kill it.
You might find using the UK as an example as *********** bamboo is poor they barely can get bamboo to grow there.
If you moved your bamboo to Georgia you would find a very different growth pattern.