How do I stop Bamboo !!!

[MarkV]

Herd of pandas?

:laughing::laughing::thumbsup:

MarkV

 

[CompactTractorFan]

There is no easy way to kill it...

We have been dealing with the stuff for over 12 years:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/177888-endless-battle.html

 

[Cat_Driver]

Not that bad. Take it out at the roots. I had a crop and I pulled them out with the root ball and they never came back.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Not that bad. Take it out at the roots. I had a crop and I pulled them out with the root ball and they never came back.

There are two types. Cluster and traveling. I think you had the cluster. :thumbsup:

 

[boomer1025]

Have looked at spraying that part of the yard with 2-4-d ? Read up on what 2-4-d will kill, it won't kill the grass, but might just work on bamboo.

 

[missingstexas]

Have looked at spraying that part of the yard with 2-4-d ? Read up on what 2-4-d will kill, it won't kill the grass, but might just work on bamboo.

I'm not certain that it won't but 2-4D is a broad leaf herbicide. That's why it doesn't kill grass. I would think round-up would but it also kills grass.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Mow it tight with a hand scythe and pick up every scrap of it and dump it on your worst enemies lawn in the middle of the night (Your congressman's or bankers lawn will do. ) then cover with three layers of black plastic, a foot of crushed gravel and two inches of blacktop pavement. Then build a thirty by one hundred foot tractor barn on it and park all your essential survival equipment on it for twenty years or so checking often for any shoots working their way out to the edges.
This has a proven track record of working at least fifty percent of the time.

 

[ncnurseryman]

I did a landscape job for a lady and she hired another guy to install bamboo in her back yard(???). That guy dug a three foot deep trench and installed a very thick petroleum based barrier to keep it from coming to the house but nothing on the back or sides. Those neighbours will have the same issues in time.

 

[dmccarty]

Too Funny. My first thought was napalm, which I then said to myself, "That won't work he needs a nuke."



Later,
Dan

 

[StanR]

Told you! Good Luck.