Bamboo

Next door but one has a lovely bamboo plant BUT I noticed next door (the neighbour between bamboo and us) has quite a few bamboo shoots coming up through their lawn and two of these shoots are right next to our garden.

I have heard bamboo is very hard to get rid of once it gets into your garden and just running the lawn mower over it does not get rid of it!!

Anybody know how to stop it please?

 

oh no! I had this problem with my neighbours last year - its still ongoing!!

i think there are two types of bamboo - clumping and creeping - my neighbour bought a creeping one and planted it next the the fence - next to my garden it crept and crept!! the runners go very deep and then throw up shoots. I had to dig and dig out all I could then (with her agreement) glyphosate it. This spring i am still battling away! I cant plant anything long term in that bed because I fear it will just get going again - at the moment i have a big space thats dug soil and each time i spot a shoot i dig up the runner and glyphosate it - I am fed up with it and its a real thug.

I intend replacing the fence this autumn so we will (both sides) be able to have a proper go at it then

sorry but if its the same as mine its bad news

Loopy

 

I had a 'clump forming' bamboo - which I bought long before I knew anything about gardening - one of the first things I did learn was, that my understanding of a clump was vastly different from that of a bamboo's idea of a clump.

Glyphosate is really good, but the only way to truly eridcate this beast is to dig, dig, dig and then dig some more. In some places we went to a depth of almost 3' and still found roots and, what's more, unless you remove every tiny last piece of root, it will spring up again. At its 'worst', my clump covered an area of just 3' x 2', but it took 4 years to stop those tiny tell-tale shoots from appearing and even now, there's occasionally a random one which pops up.

All I can suggest is that you dig down on your side of the fence, find the root and (if you don't feel you can use glyphosate - since the plant isn't yours), cut the root off, but be prepared for it to re-grow. You could try putting in a barrier, but it would probably need to go some way along the fence and probably too deep to make it worth the effort.

 

So would I

 

Thanks for your replies. Looks like it's going to be a never-ending job to control it while the main plant is growing.

If we use glyphosate on the roots of the shoots will it go back to the plant itself and kill it? and do we get glyphosate from supermarket or gardening shop?

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Dunno if relevant, but for Japanese Knotweed they cut the tops of the stalks, to reveal the hollow stem, and then pour (well, using an injection type device) Glyphosate down the instead of the stem.

 

This sounds like just the stuff I need to kill off some pesky saplings which keep emerging . Is SBK effective for this ?

 

Scareeee!