best thing for getting shot of bamboo?

[prolinep]

Alright,

 

So question i got really, did a job for someone today where we cleared a large area of bamboo, like when i say a large area its a large area like a whole garden! reason i ask its that its spreading like wild fire. we've cleared all the bamboo but what is the best way of getting rid of it for the long term, short of digging it out in which its a case for a digger is there many other options?

cheers

[Fredward]

Dig it out is the most reliable method, you can get special bamboo herbicides over here called 'bamboo buster', its a cut and paste gel, but you need to do it as soon as you've cut it.

[Burgess]

Cut it off at the ground once it's stopped actively growing and then treat the growth in spring. But it may take more than one application.

 

Quite a long time scale though. Digging it out would get rid of it but is more labour intensive.

[woodyguy]

Its not hard to kill with glyphosate. So instant result is dig it up. Season or two is Glyphosate. What type of bamboo was it?

[TIMON]

Alright,

 

 

 

So question i got really, did a job for someone today where we cleared a large area of bamboo, like when i say a large area its a large area like a whole garden! reason i ask its that its spreading like wild fire. we've cleared all the bamboo but what is the best way of getting rid of it for the long term, short of digging it out in which its a case for a digger is there many other options?

 

cheers

 

 

A giant panda????

[TIMON]

A giant panda????

 

 

Sorry..... Couldn't resist that.

[spandit]

If you dig it out I'll rehome it for you - plenty of space for it to go mad here

[prolinep]

haha you laugh about the panda but I filled a whole ifor williams tt105 trailer up and strapped it on the top, Took it to the local zoo and they have chucked it in the red panda enclosure haha. Theres to much by hand to dig its a excavator job if digging it out is really the only way, but il advise customer to try the other methods you've all given ( not sure how easy he will get a panda lol). Iv cleared a smallest patch swell and we have booked in to go back, its almost half and acre of the stuff. decent size to

[woodyguy]

You still haven't told us which bamboo it is which is central to how deep rooted it is ie whether it would be possible to dig it our or to how hard it will be to weedkiller???

[Gareth Dalzell]

We'd a garden to re-turf, bamboo on one corner which had died back. Before it died back it went viral. Took off across the garden every which way. Treated it for 6 months with roundup. Absolutely no effect at all. Ended up digging, tracking and ripping it all out. That with an Arundinaria species.