bonsaiTALK Community - View Single Post - So you want to plant BAMBOO?

LOL That would take care of it in a New York minute!

So by 3:31... NO MORE BAMBOO....

Yeah, you'd still have bamboo.

It would just avoid the area you've treated. This is an extremely hard plant--if it's the "running" type--to get rid of. It can send runners fifty yards without pushing a shoot up above ground. Its shoots can puncture pavement, asphalt and other stuff to move around a yard. Cut up pieces of root re-root themselves with no problem, so chopping it up makes problems worse. Burning it off, even if local ordinances allow it, only kills the top, not the roots.

Roundup can work, but the only real way to get rid of it--once it's escaped into a landscape-- is to deny if the chance to feed its roots. Repeated mowing of the shoots, along with agressive hand application of Roundup on leaves and shoots over a period of years, is the only real way to kill it off. It is a long-term war.

24-Apr-2006	#9
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	LOL That would take care of it in a New York minute! So by 3:31... NO MORE BAMBOO.... Yeah, you'd still have bamboo. It would just avoid the area you've treated. This is an extremely hard plant--if it's the "running" type--to get rid of. It can send runners fifty yards without pushing a shoot up above ground. Its shoots can puncture pavement, asphalt and other stuff to move around a yard. Cut up pieces of root re-root themselves with no problem, so chopping it up makes problems worse. Burning it off, even if local ordinances allow it, only kills the top, not the roots. Roundup can work, but the only real way to get rid of it--once it's escaped into a landscape-- is to deny if the chance to feed its roots. Repeated mowing of the shoots, along with agressive hand application of Roundup on leaves and shoots over a period of years, is the only real way to kill it off. It is a long-term war.