Here in Japan, we cut the bamboo off at about 1 meter high, and leave it. This should exhaust the root system as it keeps pushing sap up the stem. Then after a year or so you can just push and pull it out of the ground. A lot of the root will have died back, but whether or not this eradicates the whole underground system, ..........? However, we chip up the green bamboo stems, which makes the best mulch, (especially for fruit trees), to get sweeter, bigger fruit, and deep, soft free draining soil. Hope this helps.
MisterSoul99 Reading the title makes me laugh so hard. Have you seen bamboo videos on youtube? By the way, here in asia, bamboo grow in almost everyone's backyard. We can live without bamboo,yes we can, but its easier when they are around. Bamboos are useful, man.
Attention potential viewers of this video - the advice is to cover the bamboo and starve it of sunlight. I just saved you 8 minutes that I'll never get back.
patrick mcglone Honestly I tried everything in this video and it didn’t work. The only thing that worked was cutting it all down and burning it. But even then, new sprouts will shoot up. The ONLY way to truly get rid of it is to dig it up. It’s a root system so it’ll just keep spreading and growing if you don’t.
Just like others I came on here looking for options to control my bamboo. Glad the black plastic sheeting worked because that's what I was considering. I've already painstakingly cut all of it down but now little sprouts are appearing. Going to cover the area with a big tarp and hope it works like you described!
Well, like the video said, it eradicated the growth where I put the tarp but this stuff grows underground and it just pops up in other places. I'm now controlling it by kicking down the shoots when they show up. So far it's keeping it confined to an area I can live with. You know the saying, "Life will find a way"? It's true!
I planted two clumps about 25 years ago. Last week I set half of my patch (50' x 100'?) on fire as it stood. The wind was at 15 mph and out of the south, and all ash would fall on my own land, and the road would be clear of smoke. Double Fire breaks around the area were mowed low so all was safe. The local police showed up on their own to watch the show and we yelled at each other to hear, 500' away from the blaze and fireworks. It was the biggest fire we have had in 30 years, and we do a lot of burning, working with trees and clearing land to plant out orchards. (Chestnuts, jujubes) We regularly use fire as a tool to maintain different areas for different things. Never burned bamboo down, but if it works to renew it and manage it, it is a lot of fun as well.
You're right on. I went through the same process - cut it down, sprayed RoundUp on the re-sprouts, then cut another grove down and painted straight RoundUp on the stumps. Ran a continuous war against the re-sprouts. Four years later I seem to have won the wars and now have areas covered with dead bamboo stumps. I'm renting a mini excavator in a week or two to remove the stumps and rhizomes. Should have done that years ago! The good news is that the bamboo has converted hard, sticky clay into friable soil great for gardening. I still love bamboo, for all the reasons you stated. But, Not In My Back Yard!
@@melodyvoss The excavator worked great... in less than eight hours I dug up all the massed rhizomes. (Playing with the excavator was a side benefit). There was a lot og manual labor left to do, moving the dug-up stuff to a big pile in the back of out lot. It'll slowly decompose, probably take 20 yrs!. I paid $500 to rent the excavator, saving me hundreds of hours with a pick ax.
Also, for a couple of years after digging it all out, it was easy but necessary to immediately dig out any new shoots. And I saved one large pot of black bamboo, now on the deck.
I did the same thing you did and finally got rid of the bamboo but it was a painstaking task. Several years later I sold that house and a landscaper wanted to put bamboo in the corner of the back yard. He said that he would bury it in containers. I told him on no uncertain terms that I would never allow bamboo to be introduced to another one of my properties.
Been fighting it for 15 years in Columbia SC. Sledge hammer and or pick ax gets out stalks from after cutting. Here bamboo has a growth spurt in spring and more after a rainy period. Have to cut everything that grows up. Kick over new sprouts once or twice a day. (It's called the cane walk.) Key is to stop photosynthesis. All stalks in the colony feed each othet thru the root system. Even cut stalks will make bamboo 'bushes'. Cut these with shingle cutter (hook blade). Bamboo is supernaturally strong. Be careful. Respect it. I once broke a finger against it cutting it. Stuff will push up thru just about anything. It is pretty but if you want it in your yard, get bunching type bamboo, not the running type, which is the kind everyone hates . Bunching is also prettier and does not invade. Roger on This Old House did a segment about it on an episode once. My condolences to those with running type bamboo. Almost as bad as getting cancer.
what's helped here is to dig out the rhizomes completely. They keep growing because the rhizomes keep shooting up new shoots. It needs only about 20/25cm of it to be left in the ground to regrow all of it.
Black plastic as ground cover prior to starting your vegetable garden is the best way to eradicate unwanted vegetation. But it's the heat that kills the plants down to the roots, long before they die due to lack of sun light. During the hot summer months the ground only needs to be covered for a week or so and then you can remove the plastic and nothing that was previously growing there will survive. (Then til, fertilize, and start your garden) BTW, don't cover the plastic with leaves or foliage, The black color attracts more heat from the sun and kills the unwanted plants quicker.
In Daphne, Alabama, my backyard neighbor planted bamboo that (of course) started to run away into my yard and others. Eventually, they had to have it all cut down, filling a dump truck, but it was not dead, and started to come back. I cleared my yard and fence line by saturating the cut stalks and soil with salt. 2 years later, still no bamboo.
Salt will last for years and kill everything. A bare patch of dirt isn’t desirable. A very stupid uncle-by-marriage once dumped the salty ice water from an ice cream machine into my grandmother’s front yard. The bare patch where grass wouldn’t grow lasted for decades.
About twenty years ago a previous owner of our place (get this), a biologist, thought it would be nice to have bamboo. I began to attempt to eradicate it three years ago. I followed your regimen exactly. The result is that I daily have a new crop of sprouts all over, and each day I cut them down. I can't do any landscape work because renegades are sprouting up 50 feet from the original grove among desirable plants. I'll try your method. I have no choice. Pray for me!
I cut it down and dug up as many roots as I saw. A few weeks later sprouts came up in several areas.I read it has to have some green on the sprout to take anything down to the roots. I put a few drops of gas on the sprouts. Its been 5 years, no more bamboo anywhere in my yard.
OMGosh! Thank you so so much for sharing! We bought a house that the woman before us would dump all of her dead plants in a corner of the backyard, and I thought the same, I'll just cut it down. Well, no1 told me (But they didn't care to watch me do it, until I was finished. I guess they thought it would only span my own yard. ), that it would come back 100x's worse. Well, jokes on them now because each neighbor on either side have groves, and the 3 houses behind that span me and my 2 neighbors ALL have groves now. That's kinda funny to me, even though we've ALL now been combating this Bamboo for 14 yrs! 🤣 But also had tried everything but the backhoe idea, and plastic, so we're gonna give your plastic idea a go! I'll let you know how it works out! Wish us luck...🤞🏼.
This is my 3rd house I bought and I never had to deal with bamboo I did the grass a month ago moved all in went today to do it and theres so many pointing stumps omg
@@victoriaferrer7016 OH I KNOW!! It's SO fast!! I've found that as long as they still have the sheaths on them, even when like 5ft tall, you can still push them over at the ground with your foot because that sheath stays on until the stalk hardens. When the sheaths fall off, they're hard as bricks...lol. They're soft enough, you can just mow right over top of them thank goodness. Good luck to you! 🤞🏼
@@victoriaferrer7016 Oh...I meant to tell you too that my neighbor got rid of a patch 3ftx20ft with a sawzall in no kidding 30 min with family making a burn pile while he cut. I'm getting one of those!
Aloha from a Maui Native....we have a bamboo forest, and half of Maui on the Hana side is toast, all bamboo. My best friend and I spent the day designing a sweet little food forest garden, yoga area, and shaded seating area today, until we realized her bamboo hedge had other plans. Plans that no amount of poison would change. Now, we are considering pots, decks, hugel culture beds...& crying we are laughing so hard. The magnitude of the problem was clear: Over 297,000 views of this video!
I have bamboo growing between my house and my neighbor's house. The bamboo was planted about 20 years ago and stretched about 50 yards long. I found the easiest way to get rid of it once and for wall is to dig up the stems and getting the large root out of the ground. Before refilling the hole with dirt, (because you dig up a good square foot section when you dig up the root), spray the hole with round up. This will kill the roots that were severed when you dug around the main root. I have not had any roots come up after doing this. It's a lot of work, but it gets the job done.
We cut the stalks and immediately put diesel on the top of the freshly cut stalks. It turns the stalk into mush where they can’t grow any longer. Now I’m not talking about going crazy with the diesel, just enough to coat the top of the stalk.
I think you killed the stalks but not the roots. In a few months update if new shoots developed off the roots or not. I did the same things with roundup. The black plastic kills the roots.
I had snow and ice hanging down from a second story roof, and needed to knock it off, so I went out back to the bamboo grove, found a thirty footer that keeled over, and used it to sweep off the ice dam from afar. Came in handy for that; strong yet light enough to swing around easily. Also used it as a replacement brace for a broken turn signal stalk on my motorcycle; it's neat because you can get whatever diameter you want since it progressively grows thick at the base to thin at the top.
Fire! I was burning leaves next to a large bamboo patch I'd been trying to cut back (on Guam). I thought it was out, but the next day it was smoldering and smoking all under the bamboo. To make a long story short, I let it go on awhile (hose nearby), Bamboo died, never came back.
Our neighbor planted Bamboo on our property line. A few years later it has killed all the Pine trees that were almost tall enough to provide coverage. We had to dig a trench and put down a plastic barrier to keep it off our property.
I have the same issue and I live in central NC. I have used the box blade on my tractor to try and pull some up. It is taking over some of my driveway. I do not have a backhoe, but may consider hiring someone. After that, I can cover it with plastic. Thank you for your video.
That's just what I was going to recommend, thick, 6mil or thicker, black plastic. Good job and great video! Then, after you kill it with the black plastic, pull up the black plastic and cover the ground with several layers of cardboard or about 4 or 5 layers of newspaper, and then wood chip mulch, which you can get free from companies cutting down trees. Put the wood chips down at least four inches thick. Use 4"x4" (actually 3-1/2" square) or 6"x6" (actually 5-1/2" square) timbers as thickness guides so you do not put it down too thin in areas. This will assure no surviving roots re-sprout and will decompose eventually into dirt.
Yes, bamboo is very invasive. Depending on if it's a runner variety or clumping style will determine how to contain it. To contain it in a garden some people will trench 4ft deep and pour a concrete barrier. I used to dig a trench around black bamboo and then put leaves in the trench to cover it. Every few months, you remove the leaves and cut anything that might have started to cross the trench. We like to use it for building fences.
Thanks!--we have a bamboo problem in NYC. Every 15 feet is a new neighbor and the neighbor with the bamboo is selling. They didn't plant it either--I think the previous people did. I found one 9 foot shoot in my yard, Cut it, and now I found another 9 footer 6 feet to the right..on it's way to the next neighbor. Oy veh (as we say here). I'll try your solution.
Our bamboo is growing up through the black plastic. We had even put dirt on top of it. I'm going to apply glyphosate as another video suggested--putting it down inside the stalks--and then put down some more black plastic.
if in spring you just go out and look for the new shoots growing out in rows you can dig down to find the runner and pull it up going as far back as you want then cut the runner off that will keep it from spreading, i do it every spring and its worked well for me.
I have a clump grove super dense about 13 feet in diameter that a friggin stump grinder is having trouble taking out. I love it around the edge of the property as it doesn't have runners and stays put, great privacy but that big grove is by the house, three times the height of my roof. I will be keeping what I can salvage for projects but mother of mouse! its a s*^tload of bamboo. I d on't think its EVER been thinned or pruned... I also don't think a stump grinder will kill the root but its doing a decent job on cutting through a grove so thick you can't fit a small hand in to it. the poles are as all braided up and twisted around each other as straight poles can possibly be. Nightmare. when they are done with the cut down/grinding I am going to dig up the root [I know there will be some left], then lay plastic over that whole area for several months as well. thanks for the black plastic tip for sure. My advice to those who love the look of it, and use it, if you plant it, for the love of pinky toes and of course roofs, prune it, top it, control it and do not plant it near your house . its prettier as a perimeter anyway
A PVC cutter makes a pretty clean cut if you are using the bamboo for projects. You can sell the poles to people that don't have there own source, for use it garden and other projects.
I live in southeastern Massachussetts and we have bamboo all over the place but the type we have around here is absolutely worthless. The frost kills it in the winter but it comes up the following year. It grows so damn fast you can practically see it growing.
Thank you so much for this tip. My builders father planted 1 Bamboo in the back of my house because we are close to a highway. We really did not need him to do that because the forest filled out and we can hardly see it now. But we see a lot of Bamboo and I have tried everything. I will now use your tip. It has gotten into my flower beds so I guess I can cut smaller pieces for those areas. Thanks again for the tip!
I just bought a home with swamp land and a river running threw. My sisster inlaw and her husband owned the home we bought and for 8 years they took on the fight with bamboo. A quarter the 5 acres is river swamp land another quarter is grass and the home the other half is bamoo. Mind you the original owner was a tree guys so he went ape on the yard for about 5 years tor everything up and took a stump grinder to it and laid rock and lime stone like crazy so thick i truck could drive over it. The crazy thing that happen was it worked but some still made its way to the sides and over run the yard on top of the rocks a lime stime. My brother inlaw gave up and moveed out 8 years later. He even retired as a tree guy at a younge age. Good luck
I cut the bamboo ground level. Weed killer then salt then black plastic then old carpeting I found on trash day. They topped it with rocks🤞its been ten years & I see a few stocks starting 🤯
Cut it down then burn what you have cut when its dry on the area you cut it.After rain when any new shoots are about 1 foot high roundup at recommended mix and add a little detergent and some soluble fertilizer.You may have to repeat the roundup mix a few times but it works.Good luck
Different Ideas: Extractigator - Uprooter(USA) - Pullbearer(Canada)- Tree Popper - Root Talon - Weed Wrench - Soak rhizome ends in bucket of Rock Salt Water or Salt Water - Pour 20% vinegar into cut bamboo to shock it plus Solarizing when it’s hot by covering with Black Plastic til it's all dead. The Uprooter or extractigator you can probably pull everything up in a weekend.
I had Sumac growing here in Colorado. We chopped it down. BIG MISTAKE. Within 2-3 days it had spread clear across our entire yard. Sumac will send up shooters, but there's also a main branch/clump. How I finally killed the stuff was by taking my electric drill, a large wood bore bit, about 1 inch in diameter. I then drilled holes into the main branch of the Sumac, about 2-3 inches apart. Bamboo and Sumac are both rhizomes. They send shooters clear across from 1-2 main areas. I went to my local nursery and got this vine and tree killer, which was not cheap ($13 for 1 pint) and a bit on the week side containing 2-3% Triclopyr. The stuff I found was online, 1 gallon, 61.8% Triclopyr and I paid $65 with shipping. I then get to dilute to a 15 parts water, 1 part Triclopyr. So in a 2 gallon water pump sprayer, I add just under 8 ounces. Make sure this is well stirred. It will have a terrible smell to it and looks like milk when it goes on the plant. Pour this where you have drilled all the holes. DO NOT WATER the area that you are trying to kill for the next 2-3 days. Keep checking on your "menace" plant. If there is an area after 2-3 days still looking healthyt, drill more holes and add more Triclopyr-4 to the base. It may take some time, it will be worth it when you've finally conquered this stuff! I hope this helps.
I feel you....we have sumac growing in our bamboo! LOL I hate the sumac MORE than the bamboo. At least bamboo is pretty! I love the light filtering through it. We just need to keep it from invading further into the yard.
My recommendation is dug it all out. You plastic it up but the millions of rootlets underground is keep on crawling out even up to 20 ft or more with size of roots growing as big as the bamboo trunks looking for sun I'm in two yrs digging out
I have a question for you. If you cut down the bamboo and cover the ground with Rock Salt will that kill bamboo forever? Need to get rid of it. I believe it is pushing in the tiles in my GFs Swimming pool.
I'm gonna give this a try. I've got a couple of rolls of black plastic that came from I don't know wherewhere, some leftover project, Yeah I'm gonna give that a try.
I sprayed mixture of glyphosfate and bindi and clover killer on the new shoots when there about two to three inches tall at a rate of thirty mls of each to four ltrs of water and dish washing liquid couple of caps, on running bamboo took twelve months.
Well! last week I went out to the back yard - and lo and behold - the bamboo had sprouted right through the black plastic which I laid down several years ago. So it wasn't a solution for me! It is such a terribly tedious job to dig it all up -- so I put an ad on Craigslist for free bamboo roots -- with a beautiful picture (not mine lol but stock photo) -- and got four different sets of people out who were all so enthused about planting it in their back yards. After they left, though, I had to go over to the neighbor's to ask if I could finish retracing the roots from their side -- not easy at all! I expected a 10 minute job -- it was over four hours and there was still a lot of bamboo there, but I was too exhausted to finish. And then I discovered that it had gone to two other neighbors' places as well. Bad deal - that bamboo - I bought a house next to an apartment where it was planted. There seems to be no end of the grief it causes - and yet I need a certain bit of it for privacy from the apartment!
i do not know if this well help but a good start is to plan things well before planting the bamboo to avoid his problem. if he planted only clumper bamboos instead of the runner bamboos he could have avoided being over run in time.
how loud will they sound if cut down and put on the fire, we had lots of the smaller version here in EU but they are less than a cm in diameter they make a decent bang
None of this applies to clumping bamboo. Running bamboo is vile in Australia. Clumping bamboo is fantastic. Grows very fast, does not spread outside its clump. Pity they use the same name for the 2 very different plants.
Some people told me to put salt on the area after you cut down the stalks it changes the soil ph or vinegar, I think if you use salt pellets like for water softeners it might work?
I like your idea of using black ground cover. I will try it. I am in the process of digging up my "bamboo garden" will a Maddox then with a tiller. It is to soon to tell if this work.
You really don't understand the VOLUME panda's have to eat, and shit out. Its a nasty white diarrhea because bambo has so little nutritional value their gut has to process it quickly and pass it out.
Loved the panda option. They've not too interested in breeding either so little chance of a panda population explosion to deal with. Hate to think what would keep panda numbers down if you unfortunately got the one pair of pandas in the world interested in "physical romance", elephants to surpress the pandas? You can see where this is going.
rodger so endangered maybe.. not extinct for sure. And why do you think i wrote adopt a panda and not buy a panda. I am responsible for only what I write... not what you understand dude.
We did the backhoe thing, it worked for 5 years or so then it’s growing again, impossible to get all the roots. I’m going to trim it to the ground and cover it.
That's why you should make use of it. We eat the bamboo shoot. Because it plenty to use and grow back easy. Pretty more sustainable food source and many other useful than any plastic.
It's a RENEWABLE RESOURCE because it sends off new shoots even when you cut it to the ground!! Give it a few months & it will prove itself to you. I did find the idea of cutting the canes at about 3ft (or a meter) & cutting all the shoots with leaves off had caused the canes to turn brown & hard eventually. I pulled those right outta the ground a year or so later& they were dead. But not sure if they had sent rhizomes under ground to try & keep themselves alive, as one area is in a little bit of a slope & the bamboo is basically planted on top of itself (like 2 teenagers in love...lol) It's disgusting!
I just now the new shoots and it is contained. I have contained it with regular mowing of the lawn for about 8 years. I have transferred it to other spots and did not have any problem containing it in the new spot either. Fwiw
@@tonymart706 it worked temporarily. But then the bamboo outsmarted my plastic tarp and ended up sprouting on the other side of the tarp. I actually just pulled it up this past wknd. Not sure what to do next. I wasnt able to cover all of it cuz it goes past my fence not on my property. I think to do this successfully you have to be able to cover ALL of the bamboo.
How well do they last in the weather ?? Can they grow in Idaho ??? I want bamboo poles for the garden....I just payed $9.00 for three 6', 1" poles. So it is not free in Idaho....
Trees spread like crazy too. I have those things all over the place. Thousands to cut down just a single tree. They destroy houses, kill people, knock out power lines, it's crazy. Trying to take the all down and replace with a parking lot.
I'm trying to get bamboo to create an aquaponic system and you won't believe how expensive they are. I'd say you are lucky. Bamboo is so versatile. One day you might regret getting rid of your bamboo.
planting bamboo was the biggest mistake I ever made. It's a grass, and the fastest growing plant in the world, and it drops leaves all day every day. I tried the 20 by 20 black plastic too. The bamboo just crept all the way to the edges before growing upwards again. And in some areas it popped through the plastic. Very frustrated. I'm considering burning
Neighbor - where the bamboo originally came from - used a bobcat to get it up, two years later some still came up. Also in NC. Black plastic not an option as it's in area where grass also grows high.
I would love a bamboo Grove like this. I would go crazy with this bamboo. From fencing to trellises to archery equipment. Bows and arrows. To furniture. Flooring etc. I am actually looking to grow this because where I'm from you don't find proper bamboo. Only river cane here and there. But to buy this stuff is expensive here in South Africa. So I want to grow it. I will create a border with concrete or something down I the ground to create a boundary so that it doesn't spread that far. However great info that can be used just I case this ever happens to me in the future if I do get it right to grow it
i seem to control mine to wear i want it to grow!! use to grow out into the yard every yr and id just mow it , now it seems to grow the other way like it knows it wont last going towards the yard... going to try to grow it in boxes around my new patio im putting in this spring..hope it works
Plastic is a good idea also Ive tried cutting it @5' tall which kills it but leaves a pleasant screen ( I just cut the 10-30' tall stuff to 5', I leave the shorter stuff). Ive heard never to cut it 6"-4' as it dries into spear shapes that can go right 'through' kids playing in it if they fall on it! So either cut at ground or high enough to be safe. Its an attractive plant but be aware of its hazards.
Dozer or even skid steer with root rake removes bamboo easily. Strangely though I have tried to establish bamboo at my place for years, it grows for a while than dies off. I have removed many acres worth of bamboo using the skid steer method with two follow ups and none have returned.
Thanks so much for this video!!! I have a 40 Ft wide mini forest in my backyard....my neighbors have it on their side of the property line as well. This video gives me HOPE!!!! Thank You!
What part of the state are you located in? I am always looking for some free bamboo. Roots and all. There are a few wild stands by me, close to the Chowan River. With the owners permission I have moved several to my property. I hope to one day have acres of the stuff. Its a good feed source for my livestock and it helps hold the soil. That stand you filmed by the highway looks healthy, can I get some? Thanks.
Going to try this. Have 500 feet of road frontage about 4-6' deep in bamboo that's annoying to look at just because it's non-native and I'm afraid of it pushing further into woodland. Someone on the mountain must have planted it because all and all along the road theres probably acres.
Thanks for the info will try this on some of my sloped banks the tractor can't get at, any idea how long the plastic will remain on to get the job done?
Hi - we just bought a house and the entire backyard is engulfed in bamboo about 20 feet high. We are going to try a combination of taking roots out of the ground and covering the area with black plastic per your recommendation. One question we had was - how long do you need to leave the plastic on for? Is this several weeks, several months, or indefinitely? Thanks for posting this video, it was really helpful.
You can never get all the root up (tried it) what remains keeps growing. People ask me how long, mine is in a unused are and I just left it down covered with leaves. I would keep it covered a few months at least. Uncover it and see if you get any new shoots. The plant feeds the root, if there is no plant the root dies.
we have Japanese Knott weed which is a small version of bamboo and it grows and grows and has taken over the entire shore of a creek we have running through the back yard. We ended up burying plastic in the ground and then on top of the plastic we planted grass. That plastic barrier is the only thing that has worked for us in ten years of battling that knot weed.
dunno if this works but I read 1 gal vinegar, 2C epsom salt and 1/4 cup dish soap, preferably Dawn original. Spray after morning dew has evaporated and go back in the evening, you will see weeds dead. I haven't tried it yet but do have weeds between bricks and under patio table that I want to eliminate. A running/clumping bamboo sprouting up all over my yard that I mistakenly planted 12 yrs ago. Its gone into my neighbors organic farm so I know I have to do something soon.
just over the border into VA, got some bamboo (might be "giant cane"), and whenever we have a harsh winter where it gets down to about 0 degrees F, most of it freezes to death
A friend told me it does not like gasoline and it will die quickly when you spray it. I of course would never do something illegal, but you know how those friends can be!!
Hello I was having a chat with my mother in law and she said, that she and her husband, who both have been working and living off the land they have and she said that they always used salt, plenty of it. I was about to try that, if it does not work I will try your method. Thanks
We decided to remove all the bamboo around our house and nothing seemed to work. We cut it down. it came back. I mowed it down over a couple of years. It came back. We dug it up (what a job). It came back because you can never get it all. The tiniest root will start it growing all over again. Now we are going to cut it down close to the ground and cover it with heavy black plastic and starve it for sunlight because some people seem to have had success with killing it that way and see if we can finally beat it. Hopefully it will finally die. Will let you know in a year.
Use a roll of black rubber roofing membrane,EPDM rubber roofing,it comes in .045 and .060 mil thickness,way heavier than cheap plastic,check out an economy supplier.10' or 20' wide by 50' or even 100' lengths.
How about pouring boiling water on the roots? I have a whole mess of it in front of a house my husband and I are about to own and that's the only way I can think to kill it without poisoning the rest of the area. It's a big brick planter about four feet by four feet and there's a rose bush and something else being crowded out.
More then likely it won't kill the roos. That small of an area... Use plastic. You could even leave it and put bark or rock on top of that to eliminate any weed growth later. YOu can cut a slit in the plastic and plant a bush or tree.
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Here in Japan, we cut the bamboo off at about 1 meter high, and leave it.
This should exhaust the root system as it keeps pushing sap up the stem. Then after a year or so you can just push and pull it out of the ground. A lot of the root will have died back, but whether or not this eradicates the whole underground system, ..........?
However, we chip up the green bamboo stems, which makes the best mulch, (especially for fruit trees), to get sweeter, bigger fruit, and deep, soft free draining soil.
Hope this helps.
Slow and Natural life Japan Thanks for that info, it is always great to learn how things are done in different places.
MisterSoul99 Reading the title makes me laugh so hard. Have you seen bamboo videos on youtube?
By the way, here in asia, bamboo grow in almost everyone's backyard. We can live without bamboo,yes we can, but its easier when they are around. Bamboos are useful, man.
Do you mean you keep trimming off the stems at 1m height? Or just once?
The stumps last forever, cut it close to the ground, cover it up in warm/ hot weather and they will die.
Maybe you have a different variety that what I have, ours will spread so much (in time) you could not open your door.
Attention potential viewers of this video - the advice is to cover the bamboo and starve it of sunlight. I just saved you 8 minutes that I'll never get back.
your dead fucking right... told me nothing
Thank you!!!
So what's the best thing to cover it with? My dickhead neighbor has bamboo and it started falling into my yard and BAMM I got bamboo everywhere!
patrick mcglone Honestly I tried everything in this video and it didn’t work. The only thing that worked was cutting it all down and burning it. But even then, new sprouts will shoot up. The ONLY way to truly get rid of it is to dig it up. It’s a root system so it’ll just keep spreading and growing if you don’t.
Dear lord thanks
Just like others I came on here looking for options to control my bamboo. Glad the black plastic sheeting worked because that's what I was considering. I've already painstakingly cut all of it down but now little sprouts are appearing. Going to cover the area with a big tarp and hope it works like you described!
How did it work two years later...B^ )
So did it work? Would like to know. Thanks.
How did it worked?
if you dont answer you most likely got staprd by the boo 🤣
Well, like the video said, it eradicated the growth where I put the tarp but this stuff grows underground and it just pops up in other places. I'm now controlling it by kicking down the shoots when they show up. So far it's keeping it confined to an area I can live with. You know the saying, "Life will find a way"? It's true!
I planted two clumps about 25 years ago. Last week I set half of my patch (50' x 100'?) on fire as it stood. The wind was at 15 mph and out of the south, and all ash would fall on my own land, and the road would be clear of smoke. Double Fire breaks around the area were mowed low so all was safe. The local police showed up on their own to watch the show and we yelled at each other to hear, 500' away from the blaze and fireworks. It was the biggest fire we have had in 30 years, and we do a lot of burning, working with trees and clearing land to plant out orchards. (Chestnuts, jujubes)
We regularly use fire as a tool to maintain different areas for different things.
Never burned bamboo down, but if it works to renew it and manage it, it is a lot of fun as well.
You're right on. I went through the same process - cut it down, sprayed RoundUp on the re-sprouts, then cut another grove down and painted straight RoundUp on the stumps. Ran a continuous war against the re-sprouts. Four years later I seem to have won the wars and now have areas covered with dead bamboo stumps. I'm renting a mini excavator in a week or two to remove the stumps and rhizomes. Should have done that years ago! The good news is that the bamboo has converted hard, sticky clay into friable soil great for gardening. I still love bamboo, for all the reasons you stated. But, Not In My Back Yard!
How did that work out for you with the excavation?
@@melodyvoss The excavator worked great... in less than eight hours I dug up all the massed rhizomes. (Playing with the excavator was a side benefit). There was a lot og manual labor left to do, moving the dug-up stuff to a big pile in the back of out lot. It'll slowly decompose, probably take 20 yrs!. I paid $500 to rent the excavator, saving me hundreds of hours with a pick ax.
Also, for a couple of years after digging it all out, it was easy but necessary to immediately dig out any new shoots. And I saved one large pot of black bamboo, now on the deck.
I did the same thing you did and finally got rid of the bamboo but it was a painstaking task. Several years later I sold that house and a landscaper wanted to put bamboo in the corner of the back yard. He said that he would bury it in containers. I told him on no uncertain terms that I would never allow bamboo to be introduced to another one of my properties.
Been fighting it for 15 years in Columbia SC.
Sledge hammer and or pick ax gets out stalks from after cutting.
Here bamboo has a growth spurt in spring and more after a rainy period.
Have to cut everything that grows up. Kick over new sprouts once or twice a day. (It's called the cane walk.) Key is to stop photosynthesis. All stalks in the colony feed each othet thru the root system. Even cut stalks will make bamboo 'bushes'. Cut these with shingle cutter (hook blade). Bamboo is supernaturally strong. Be careful. Respect it. I once broke a finger against it cutting it. Stuff will push up thru just about anything. It is pretty but if you want it in your yard, get bunching type bamboo, not the running type, which is the kind everyone hates . Bunching is also prettier and does not invade. Roger on This Old House did a segment about it on an episode once. My condolences to those with running type bamboo. Almost as bad as getting cancer.
what's helped here is to dig out the rhizomes completely. They keep growing because the rhizomes keep shooting up new shoots. It needs only about 20/25cm of it to be left in the ground to regrow all of it.
Black plastic as ground cover prior to starting your vegetable garden is the best way to eradicate unwanted vegetation. But it's the heat that kills the plants down to the roots, long before they die due to lack of sun light. During the hot summer months the ground only needs to be covered for a week or so and then you can remove the plastic and nothing that was previously growing there will survive. (Then til, fertilize, and start your garden) BTW, don't cover the plastic with leaves or foliage, The black color attracts more heat from the sun and kills the unwanted plants quicker.
In Daphne, Alabama, my backyard neighbor planted bamboo that (of course) started to run away into my yard and others. Eventually, they had to have it all cut down, filling a dump truck, but it was not dead, and started to come back. I cleared my yard and fence line by saturating the cut stalks and soil with salt. 2 years later, still no bamboo.
With all that salt, little else will grow either. The soil pH and microbiome has been ruined.
Salt will last for years and kill everything. A bare patch of dirt isn’t desirable. A very stupid uncle-by-marriage once dumped the salty ice water from an ice cream machine into my grandmother’s front yard. The bare patch where grass wouldn’t grow lasted for decades.
About twenty years ago a previous owner of our place (get this), a biologist, thought it would be nice to have bamboo. I began to attempt to eradicate it three years ago. I followed your regimen exactly. The result is that I daily have a new crop of sprouts all over, and each day I cut them down. I can't do any landscape work because renegades are sprouting up 50 feet from the original grove among desirable plants. I'll try your method. I have no choice. Pray for me!
I cut it down and dug up as many roots as I saw. A few weeks later sprouts came up in several areas.I read it has to have some green on the sprout to take anything down to the roots. I put a few drops of gas on the sprouts. Its been 5 years, no more bamboo anywhere in my yard.
thank you for this. What a genius idea and you showed it works. I needed this. You saved my back yard and possibly my house 😅
OMGosh! Thank you so so much for sharing! We bought a house that the woman before us would dump all of her dead plants in a corner of the backyard, and I thought the same, I'll just cut it down. Well, no1 told me (But they didn't care to watch me do it, until I was finished. I guess they thought it would only span my own yard. ), that it would come back 100x's worse. Well, jokes on them now because each neighbor on either side have groves, and the 3 houses behind that span me and my 2 neighbors ALL have groves now. That's kinda funny to me, even though we've ALL now been combating this Bamboo for 14 yrs! 🤣 But also had tried everything but the backhoe idea, and plastic, so we're gonna give your plastic idea a go! I'll let you know how it works out! Wish us luck...🤞🏼.
This is my 3rd house I bought and I never had to deal with bamboo I did the grass a month ago moved all in went today to do it and theres so many pointing stumps omg
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OH I KNOW!! It's SO fast!! I've found that as long as they still have the sheaths on them, even when like 5ft tall, you can still push them over at the ground with your foot because that sheath stays on until the stalk hardens. When the sheaths fall off, they're hard as bricks...lol. They're soft enough, you can just mow right over top of them thank goodness. Good luck to you! 🤞🏼
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Oh...I meant to tell you too that my neighbor got rid of a patch 3ftx20ft with a sawzall in no kidding 30 min with family making a burn pile while he cut. I'm getting one of those!
M43 tractor supply ..kills it
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Thank you so much for sharing that! Really...👍🏼👏🏼
I will testify, NEVER plant this.
Aloha from a Maui Native....we have a bamboo forest, and half of Maui on the Hana side is toast, all bamboo. My best friend and I spent the day designing a sweet little food forest garden, yoga area, and shaded seating area today, until we realized her bamboo hedge had other plans. Plans that no amount of poison would change. Now, we are considering pots, decks, hugel culture beds...& crying we are laughing so hard. The magnitude of the problem was clear: Over 297,000 views of this video!
I have bamboo growing between my house and my neighbor's house. The bamboo was planted about 20 years ago and stretched about 50 yards long. I found the easiest way to get rid of it once and for wall is to dig up the stems and getting the large root out of the ground. Before refilling the hole with dirt, (because you dig up a good square foot section when you dig up the root), spray the hole with round up. This will kill the roots that were severed when you dug around the main root. I have not had any roots come up after doing this. It's a lot of work, but it gets the job done.
You probably won't have anything else grow there either.
@@hughhadfield9115 roundup deactivates in soil. Only affects the plant it touches.
We cut the stalks and immediately put diesel on the top of the freshly cut stalks. It turns the stalk into mush where they can’t grow any longer. Now I’m not talking about going crazy with the diesel, just enough to coat the top of the stalk.
I think you killed the stalks but not the roots. In a few months update if new shoots developed off the roots or not. I did the same things with roundup. The black plastic kills the roots.
I had snow and ice hanging down from a second story roof, and needed to knock it off, so I went out back to the bamboo grove, found a thirty footer that keeled over, and used it to sweep off the ice dam from afar. Came in handy for that; strong yet light enough to swing around easily.
Also used it as a replacement brace for a broken turn signal stalk on my motorcycle; it's neat because you can get whatever diameter you want since it progressively grows thick at the base to thin at the top.
Don't ever let anybody put bamboo anywhere around your property
Fire! I was burning leaves next to a large bamboo patch I'd been trying to cut back (on Guam). I thought it was out, but the next day it was smoldering and smoking all under the bamboo. To make a long story short, I let it go on awhile (hose nearby), Bamboo died, never came back.
Our neighbor planted Bamboo on our property line. A few years later it has killed all the Pine trees that were almost tall enough to provide coverage. We had to dig a trench and put down a plastic barrier to keep it off our property.
I have the same issue and I live in central NC. I have used the box blade on my tractor to try and pull some up. It is taking over some of my driveway. I do not have a backhoe, but may consider hiring someone. After that, I can cover it with plastic. Thank you for your video.
That's just what I was going to recommend, thick, 6mil or thicker, black plastic. Good job and great video!
Then, after you kill it with the black plastic, pull up the black plastic and cover the ground with several layers of cardboard or about 4 or 5 layers of newspaper, and then wood chip mulch, which you can get free from companies cutting down trees. Put the wood chips down at least four inches thick. Use 4"x4" (actually 3-1/2" square) or 6"x6" (actually 5-1/2" square) timbers as thickness guides so you do not put it down too thin in areas. This will assure no surviving roots re-sprout and will decompose eventually into dirt.
how long did you have to leave the plastic on
Yes, bamboo is very invasive. Depending on if it's a runner variety or clumping style will determine how to contain it. To contain it in a garden some people will trench 4ft deep and pour a concrete barrier. I used to dig a trench around black bamboo and then put leaves in the trench to cover it. Every few months, you remove the leaves and cut anything that might have started to cross the trench. We like to use it for building fences.
Even the clumping varieties spread if they are happy.
Yes, the clumping styles are easier to prune out the new growth. I like to us a reciprocating saw with a long pruning blade.
Do you spli it in half?.
Thanks!--we have a bamboo problem in NYC. Every 15 feet is a new neighbor and the neighbor with the bamboo is selling. They didn't plant it either--I think the previous people did. I found one 9 foot shoot in my yard, Cut it, and now I found another 9 footer 6 feet to the right..on it's way to the next neighbor. Oy veh (as we say here). I'll try your solution.
He gets to the point at 4:40. You're welcome.
Our bamboo is growing up through the black plastic. We had even put dirt on top of it. I'm going to apply glyphosate as another video suggested--putting it down inside the stalks--and then put down some more black plastic.
if in spring you just go out and look for the new shoots growing out in rows you can dig down to find the runner and pull it up going as far back as you want then cut the runner off that will keep it from spreading, i do it every spring and its worked well for me.
I'm so glad that you shared that hot tub picture. Thank you so much!!!
I have a clump grove super dense about 13 feet in diameter that a friggin stump grinder is having trouble taking out. I love it around the edge of the property as it doesn't have runners and stays put, great privacy but that big grove is by the house, three times the height of my roof. I will be keeping what I can salvage for projects but mother of mouse! its a s*^tload of bamboo. I d on't think its EVER been thinned or pruned... I also don't think a stump grinder will kill the root but its doing a decent job on cutting through a grove so thick you can't fit a small hand in to it. the poles are as all braided up and twisted around each other as straight poles can possibly be. Nightmare. when they are done with the cut down/grinding I am going to dig up the root [I know there will be some left], then lay plastic over that whole area for several months as well. thanks for the black plastic tip for sure. My advice to those who love the look of it, and use it, if you plant it, for the love of pinky toes and of course roofs, prune it, top it, control it and do not plant it near your house . its prettier as a perimeter anyway
A PVC cutter makes a pretty clean cut if you are using the bamboo for projects. You can sell the poles to people that don't have there own source, for use it garden and other projects.
Why would you show a picture of Rosie O'Donnell man? I almost threw up my breakfast.
I live in southeastern Massachussetts and we have bamboo all over the place but the type we have around here is absolutely worthless. The frost kills it in the winter but it comes up the following year. It grows so damn fast you can practically see it growing.
Thank you so much for this tip. My builders father planted 1 Bamboo in the back of my house because we are close to a highway. We really did not need him to do that because the forest filled out and we can hardly see it now. But we see a lot of Bamboo and I have tried everything. I will now use your tip. It has gotten into my flower beds so I guess I can cut smaller pieces for those areas. Thanks again for the tip!
I just bought a home with swamp land and a river running threw. My sisster inlaw and her husband owned the home we bought and for 8 years they took on the fight with bamboo. A quarter the 5 acres is river swamp land another quarter is grass and the home the other half is bamoo. Mind you the original owner was a tree guys so he went ape on the yard for about 5 years tor everything up and took a stump grinder to it and laid rock and lime stone like crazy so thick i truck could drive over it. The crazy thing that happen was it worked but some still made its way to the sides and over run the yard on top of the rocks a lime stime. My brother inlaw gave up and moveed out 8 years later. He even retired as a tree guy at a younge age. Good luck
I cut the bamboo ground level. Weed killer then salt then black plastic then old carpeting I found on trash day. They topped it with rocks🤞its been ten years & I see a few stocks starting 🤯
You didn't have to show us the pic of Rosie O'Donnell!!
+Gabriel S. AGREED lol wtf it caught me off guard and I literally flinched
+Gabriel S. her face needs to be bagged -_-
+Gabriel S. Rosie unchained..As in throw a cat in with her. Wait...Not a good comparison. She's definitely not "Mans best friend"
The Rosie pic was dead on!
O'Dummy was necessary to demonstrate just how friggin' hard it is to get rid of bamboo. Can we cover her with a tarp too?
In China we pour cement on them, and build expensive follies that nobody uses.
Bamboo can grow through concrete. It'll take longer, but I've seen it happen.
Cut it down then burn what you have cut when its dry on the area you cut it.After rain when any new shoots are about 1 foot high roundup at recommended mix and add a little detergent and some soluble fertilizer.You may have to repeat the roundup mix a few times but it works.Good luck
makes good fishing poles, caught my first fish on one.
Different Ideas: Extractigator - Uprooter(USA) - Pullbearer(Canada)- Tree Popper - Root Talon - Weed Wrench - Soak rhizome ends in bucket of Rock Salt Water or Salt Water - Pour 20% vinegar into cut bamboo to shock it plus Solarizing when it’s hot by covering with Black Plastic til it's all dead. The Uprooter or extractigator you can probably pull everything up in a weekend.
I had Sumac growing here in Colorado. We chopped it down. BIG MISTAKE. Within 2-3 days it had spread clear across our entire yard. Sumac will send up shooters, but there's also a main branch/clump. How I finally killed the stuff was by taking my electric drill, a large wood bore bit, about 1 inch in diameter. I then drilled holes into the main branch of the Sumac, about 2-3 inches apart. Bamboo and Sumac are both rhizomes. They send shooters clear across from 1-2 main areas. I went to my local nursery and got this vine and tree killer, which was not cheap ($13 for 1 pint) and a bit on the week side containing 2-3% Triclopyr. The stuff I found was online, 1 gallon, 61.8% Triclopyr and I paid $65 with shipping. I then get to dilute to a 15 parts water, 1 part Triclopyr. So in a 2 gallon water pump sprayer, I add just under 8 ounces. Make sure this is well stirred. It will have a terrible smell to it and looks like milk when it goes on the plant. Pour this where you have drilled all the holes. DO NOT WATER the area that you are trying to kill for the next 2-3 days. Keep checking on your "menace" plant. If there is an area after 2-3 days still looking healthyt, drill more holes and add more Triclopyr-4 to the base. It may take some time, it will be worth it when you've finally conquered this stuff! I hope this helps.
I feel you....we have sumac growing in our bamboo! LOL I hate the sumac MORE than the bamboo. At least bamboo is pretty! I love the light filtering through it. We just need to keep it from invading further into the yard.
Did you tried to remove the plastic and sees if comes back?
My recommendation is dug it all out. You plastic it up but the millions of rootlets underground is keep on crawling out even up to 20 ft or more with size of roots growing as big as the bamboo trunks looking for sun I'm in two yrs digging out
I have a question for you. If you cut down the bamboo and cover the ground with Rock Salt will that kill bamboo forever? Need to get rid of it. I believe it is pushing in the tiles in my GFs Swimming pool.
I'm gonna give this a try. I've got a couple of rolls of black plastic that came from I don't know wherewhere, some leftover project, Yeah I'm gonna give that a try.
I was thinking of putting down that plastic and then creating a dry creek on top of it. What do you think?
I sprayed mixture of glyphosfate and bindi and clover killer on the new shoots when there about two to three inches tall at a rate of thirty mls of each to four ltrs of water and dish washing liquid couple of caps, on running bamboo took twelve months.
Well! last week I went out to the back yard - and lo and behold - the bamboo had sprouted right through the black plastic which I laid down several years ago. So it wasn't a solution for me! It is such a terribly tedious job to dig it all up -- so I put an ad on Craigslist for free bamboo roots -- with a beautiful picture (not mine lol but stock photo) -- and got four different sets of people out who were all so enthused about planting it in their back yards. After they left, though, I had to go over to the neighbor's to ask if I could finish retracing the roots from their side -- not easy at all! I expected a 10 minute job -- it was over four hours and there was still a lot of bamboo there, but I was too exhausted to finish. And then I discovered that it had gone to two other neighbors' places as well. Bad deal - that bamboo - I bought a house next to an apartment where it was planted. There seems to be no end of the grief it causes - and yet I need a certain bit of it for privacy from the apartment!
They are sooooo beautiful. We also have bamboos all around the garden and i like them so much. 😂
i do not know if this well help but a good start is to plan things well before planting the bamboo to avoid his problem. if he planted only clumper bamboos instead of the runner bamboos he could have avoided being over run in time.
Lol,, dude those pictures where hilarious!!
how loud will they sound if cut down and put on the fire, we had lots of the smaller version here in EU but they are less than a cm in diameter they make a decent bang
Seems like the easiest and most viable way to me. Will be trying.
None of this applies to clumping bamboo. Running bamboo is vile in Australia. Clumping bamboo is fantastic. Grows very fast, does not spread outside its clump. Pity they use the same name for the 2 very different plants.
a lot of vocabulary is lost constantly by the ignorance of the ppl
The main problem is that every garden centre will tell you it is non-invasive clumping variety. You only find out later that they were wrong.
Some people told me to put salt on the area after you cut down the stalks it changes the soil ph or vinegar, I think if you use salt pellets like for water softeners it might work?
I like your idea of using black ground cover. I will try it. I am in the process of digging up my "bamboo garden" will a Maddox then with a tiller. It is to soon to tell if this work.
Release a panda or two to the unwanted bamboo area. They eat bamboo like no tomorrow.
yeah and they shit alot after eating all of them!
1998 why are you upset with free compost ?
You really don't understand the VOLUME panda's have to eat, and shit out. Its a nasty white diarrhea because bambo has so little nutritional value their gut has to process it quickly and pass it out.
then you will have a panda bear problem GLOBAL warming will take care of them though
Loved the panda option. They've not too interested in breeding either so little chance of a panda population explosion to deal with. Hate to think what would keep panda numbers down if you unfortunately got the one pair of pandas in the world interested in "physical romance", elephants to surpress the pandas? You can see where this is going.
I cut and dry bamboo for use in trellises in my garden but I would never grow bamboo. One day you see a chute, ten days later its a forest!
No kidding about the forest/ grove.
Adopt a Panda. Those suckers can destroy bamboos like a vacuum cleaner against fine dust.
Kalpesh Patel do they destroy ppl and where do you get a nearly extinct animal secret black market for excentric rich ppl?
rodger so endangered maybe.. not extinct for sure. And why do you think i wrote adopt a panda and not buy a panda. I am responsible for only what I write... not what you understand dude.
We did the backhoe thing, it worked for 5 years or so then it’s growing again, impossible to get all the roots. I’m going to trim it to the ground and cover it.
That's why you should make use of it. We eat the bamboo shoot. Because it plenty to use and grow back easy. Pretty more sustainable food source and many other useful than any plastic.
Which plastic do you use? Landscaping fabric or plastic that doesn't let water through it?
It's a RENEWABLE RESOURCE because it sends off new shoots even when you cut it to the ground!! Give it a few months & it will prove itself to you. I did find the idea of cutting the canes at about 3ft (or a meter) & cutting all the shoots with leaves off had caused the canes to turn brown & hard eventually. I pulled those right outta the ground a year or so later& they were dead. But not sure if they had sent rhizomes under ground to try & keep themselves alive, as one area is in a little bit of a slope & the bamboo is basically planted on top of itself (like 2 teenagers in love...lol) It's disgusting!
I just now the new shoots and it is contained. I have contained it with regular mowing of the lawn for about 8 years. I have transferred it to other spots and did not have any problem containing it in the new spot either. Fwiw
I just tried this with my backyard. Ill check back in and let you know how it goes. I used 7 mil plastic
How did it go?
@@tonymart706 it worked temporarily. But then the bamboo outsmarted my plastic tarp and ended up sprouting on the other side of the tarp. I actually just pulled it up this past wknd. Not sure what to do next. I wasnt able to cover all of it cuz it goes past my fence not on my property. I think to do this successfully you have to be able to cover ALL of the bamboo.
How well do they last in the weather ?? Can they grow in Idaho ??? I want bamboo poles for the garden....I just payed $9.00 for three 6', 1" poles. So it is not free in Idaho....
Trees spread like crazy too. I have those things all over the place. Thousands to cut down just a single tree. They destroy houses, kill people, knock out power lines, it's crazy. Trying to take the all down and replace with a parking lot.
I'm trying to get bamboo to create an aquaponic system and you won't believe how expensive they are. I'd say you are lucky. Bamboo is so versatile. One day you might regret getting rid of your bamboo.
planting bamboo was the biggest mistake I ever made. It's a grass, and the fastest growing plant in the world, and it drops leaves all day every day. I tried the 20 by 20 black plastic too. The bamboo just crept all the way to the edges before growing upwards again. And in some areas it popped through the plastic. Very frustrated. I'm considering burning
Not kosher but try petrol.
Neighbor - where the bamboo originally came from - used a bobcat to get it up, two years later some still came up. Also in NC. Black plastic not an option as it's in area where grass also grows high.
I would love a bamboo Grove like this. I would go crazy with this bamboo. From fencing to trellises to archery equipment. Bows and arrows. To furniture. Flooring etc. I am actually looking to grow this because where I'm from you don't find proper bamboo. Only river cane here and there. But to buy this stuff is expensive here in South Africa. So I want to grow it. I will create a border with concrete or something down I the ground to create a boundary so that it doesn't spread that far. However great info that can be used just I case this ever happens to me in the future if I do get it right to grow it
do you have to keep the plastic down at all times; or is there a point where you wouldn't need it anymore?
Bamboo is just a large grass so after cutting it down to the ground all you needed to do was cut the grass weekly until it ran out of energy.
i seem to control mine to wear i want it to grow!! use to grow out into the yard every yr and id just mow it , now it seems to grow the other way like it knows it wont last going towards the yard... going to try to grow it in boxes around my new patio im putting in this spring..hope it works
Plastic is a good idea also Ive tried cutting it @5' tall which kills it but leaves a pleasant screen ( I just cut the 10-30' tall stuff to 5', I leave the shorter stuff). Ive heard never to cut it 6"-4' as it dries into spear shapes that can go right 'through' kids playing in it if they fall on it! So either cut at ground or high enough to be safe. Its an attractive plant but be aware of its hazards.
Dozer or even skid steer with root rake removes bamboo easily. Strangely though I have tried to establish bamboo at my place for years, it grows for a while than dies off. I have removed many acres worth of bamboo using the skid steer method with two follow ups and none have returned.
cleatrampler what is a root rake?
Thanks so much for this video!!! I have a 40 Ft wide mini forest in my backyard....my neighbors have it on their side of the property line as well. This video gives me HOPE!!!! Thank You!
What part of the state are you located in? I am always looking for some free bamboo. Roots and all. There are a few wild stands by me, close to the Chowan River. With the owners permission I have moved several to my property. I hope to one day have acres of the stuff. Its a good feed source for my livestock and it helps hold the soil. That stand you filmed by the highway looks healthy, can I get some? Thanks.
Roundup is not intended to kill roots . Try using Bonide stump and vine killer .
Going to try this. Have 500 feet of road frontage about 4-6' deep in bamboo that's annoying to look at just because it's non-native and I'm afraid of it pushing further into woodland. Someone on the mountain must have planted it because all and all along the road theres probably acres.
HOW LONG DO YOU LEAVE THE PLASTIC ON BEFORE YOU CAN REMOVE IT
Thanks for the info will try this on some of my sloped banks the tractor can't get at, any idea how long the plastic will remain on to get the job done?
Hi - we just bought a house and the entire backyard is engulfed in bamboo about 20 feet high. We are going to try a combination of taking roots out of the ground and covering the area with black plastic per your recommendation. One question we had was - how long do you need to leave the plastic on for? Is this several weeks, several months, or indefinitely? Thanks for posting this video, it was really helpful.
You can never get all the root up (tried it) what remains keeps growing. People ask me how long, mine is in a unused are and I just left it down covered with leaves. I would keep it covered a few months at least. Uncover it and see if you get any new shoots. The plant feeds the root, if there is no plant the root dies.
Until it’s gone - years
we have Japanese Knott weed which is a small version of bamboo and it grows and grows and has taken over the entire shore of a creek we have running through the back yard.
We ended up burying plastic in the ground and then on top of the plastic we planted grass. That plastic barrier is the only thing that has worked for us in ten years of battling that knot weed.
dunno if this works but I read 1 gal vinegar, 2C epsom salt and 1/4 cup dish soap, preferably Dawn original. Spray after morning dew has evaporated and go back in the evening, you will see weeds dead. I haven't tried it yet but do have weeds between bricks and under patio table that I want to eliminate. A running/clumping bamboo sprouting up all over my yard that I mistakenly planted 12 yrs ago. Its gone into my neighbors organic farm so I know I have to do something soon.
BarbaraL Lowell Me to, silly us hey. Have you gotten rid of it yet? Im just about ready to move out just to get away from it.
BarbaraL Lowell Regular 5 percent vinegar wont work. You have to use the 20 percent vinegar.
just over the border into VA, got some bamboo (might be "giant cane"), and whenever we have a harsh winter where it gets down to about 0 degrees F, most of it freezes to death
A friend told me it does not like gasoline and it will die quickly when you spray it. I of course would never do something illegal, but you know how those friends can be!!
+Tracy Lee That _may_ work, but you will also end up with barren soil that is unable to support life for many years. DO NOT do this in a yard setting.
bamboo is pretty easy to control with a proper root barrier really... just takes some proper caution
Why did you think a backhoe wasn't an option? Seems sensible.
Hello I was having a chat with my mother in law and she said, that she and her husband, who both have been working and living off the land they have and she said that they always used salt, plenty of it. I was about to try that, if it does not work I will try your method. Thanks
We decided to remove all the bamboo around our house and nothing seemed to work. We cut it down. it came back. I mowed it down over a couple of years. It came back. We dug it up (what a job). It came back because you can never get it all. The tiniest root will start it growing all over again. Now we are going to cut it down close to the ground and cover it with heavy black plastic and starve it for sunlight because some people seem to have had success with killing it that way and see if we can finally beat it. Hopefully it will finally die. Will let you know in a year.
Did your efforts work?
@@leticiareinhart2875 IT WORKED, FINALLY. THE BLACK TARP KILLED IT FOR LACK OF SUNLIGHT.
I would like to know how long to do have to keep the bamboo covered with black plastic? Thanks
How long did you keep the black plastic on the cut bamboo?
if i just had Rosie lay down on top of it would it kill it any quicker?
About 60 years ago my grandfather said they killed it with salt, they had a patch that looked like your picture the patch was about 50 feet square.
Do you have to leave the stumps covered forever?
Use a roll of black rubber roofing membrane,EPDM rubber roofing,it comes in .045 and .060 mil thickness,way heavier than cheap plastic,check out an economy supplier.10' or 20' wide by 50' or even 100' lengths.
what about using them for making flutes? :P :D
Dig up a big root wash off the dirt and hang it in a big container with roundup. root sucks up the roundup and kills it from the bottom upwards.
How about pouring boiling water on the roots? I have a whole mess of it in front of a house my husband and I are about to own and that's the only way I can think to kill it without poisoning the rest of the area. It's a big brick planter about four feet by four feet and there's a rose bush and something else being crowded out.
More then likely it won't kill the roos. That small of an area... Use plastic.
You could even leave it and put bark or rock on top of that to eliminate any weed growth later. YOu can cut a slit in the plastic and plant a bush or tree.