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Killing Mature Bamboo
We recently purchased our first home and our backyard has been taken over by the neighbor's bamboo!!
I've done some research and have seen articles that recommend cutting the bamboo and painting the fresh cut with herbicide, but I've found almost all of these stalks are mature and dry, so painting anything on them wouldn't get us anywhere.
What should my next step be? I've gotten all of the stalks cut down and am thinking the next thing to do is start cutting out the root system, and perhaps paint the herbicide on the cuts? Will this put any poisons into my ground that I should be worried about, if I plan to plant veggies in the future?
I've done some research and have seen articles that recommend cutting the bamboo and painting the fresh cut with herbicide, but I've found almost all of these stalks are mature and dry, so painting anything on them wouldn't get us anywhere.
What should my next step be? I've gotten all of the stalks cut down and am thinking the next thing to do is start cutting out the root system, and perhaps paint the herbicide on the cuts? Will this put any poisons into my ground that I should be worried about, if I plan to plant veggies in the future?
Re: Killing Mature Bamboo
It depends on what type of herbicide chemical you use.
Some work on root tissue, some must contact green tissue to work. Some remain active in soil and will kill everything in the area for 3 years. Be careful.
Good luck! Getting rid of bamboo is a MAJOR project that could take years.
You will probably need to dig a deep trench between the yards and build some kind of barrier in it to keep the bamboo out in the future, because, you know, it will keep coming and coming and coming....
Lurker posting...sorry..
I had this problem in my first house. Dig a trench..and hope and pray. Our trench was about 3 feet deep and seemed to do the trick. However, depending on the species of bamboo, the root grow up to 6 feet deep. Ugh..Keep trimming the sprouts and painting them. I used some not so "green techniques". I am sort of ashamed to admit what I used but 10 years later and a 3 feet deep ditch later..the bamboo was under control. I asked my neighbor if I could pay to have it removed and the answer was flat out NO!
Be careful what you use to kill the fresh roots and the green portions...it could kill everything close by. I used a paint brush and that minimized the damage!