best thing for getting shot of bamboo?

[prolinep]

Woodyguy I'm sure it Phyllostachys Aurea,

[ArthurBottlesworth]

I've read every type of bamboo is edible

 

Local take away...

[woodyguy]

Ph Aurea is a clumping bamboo that rarely runs and would be very unlikely to cover a whole garden. Do you have a picture?

[Gareth Dalzell]

They only clump form when they are content. Under stress they run this was just after we started, by the time we'd finished we'd tracked 80% of a garden 10m x 7m ripping out a mesh of bamboo roots in the top 200 mm of the soil profile. Took away around 750 kg of root and soil attached. The parent plant is in the top center of the photo in the gap in border

Edited October 31, 2014 by Gareth Dalzell

[slack ma girdle]

If you are going to spray it, you need to add an adjuvent to the mix, because the leaves are waxy and the mix won't stick.

If i remember rightly, the best time to spray is June time.

 

Check ALL the simple things

[woodyguy]

Gareth, on what do you base the statement "They only clump form when they are content. Under stress they run"?

 

There are roughly 300 species of bamboo that can be grown in the British climate. If somebody posted a question about a tree and said it grew really big and how should I cut it back, people might wish to know what species of tree it is. Posting that trees like being cut back or some other generalisation would be soon questionned.

 

Some bamboo species always run. Some never run. Many will run if the conditions are moist and good. Under stress they tend to not grow very much at all or run. So to provide a sensible answer to how he can get rid of it, we need to know what species of bamboo it is. Or would you advice on a managing a hedge without knowing if it was hawthorne, leylandii or holly?