Trying to control bamboo.

[MotorSeven]

Roundup.

Otherwiuse, pull out the Asian cookbooks and start cooking up the bamboo shoots (takinoko) every spring when they first break the ground. Timber bamboo has great flavor and good size for cooking.
Mf

What about the smaller stuf...big as your thumb? I have a few stands scattered about the farm. It must taste good as the horses and cows srtip the leaves off frist than start nibbling on the stalks until they are gone.

 

[jimgerken]

How about burning the new shoots with a weed burner? And, if it is all connected together like someone suggested, I would think that applying some kind of systemic weed killer would get a whole bunch at once.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

I see what you mean. I seem to have two varieties mixed together. One is similar to yours except it doesn't seem to clump as much. The other is up to 5 inches in diameter and that is the one that really spreads quickly. I have an area about 80 feet by 40 feet totally infested and about twice that size where it pops up constantly but I can mow it.

Another problem, is that this is right on my property line and has spread to the adjoining property. The absentee owner doesn't care about his large vacant lot and won't let me try to remove the bamboo from his land. So, even if I get mine under control I will still have to fight to keep it from spreading back into the same area in the future. Anyone have a nuke I can borrow?

5"??? Wow...The biggest ours gets is about an inch.

Ours also is spreading, but us and our neighbors keep the area mowed, so that is not a big problem. My uncle has bamboo at a new property he bought...Apparently a neighbor had it, and it traveled under the road to my uncles property. The township comes in every so often with a loader and pushes it back so it does not take over the ROW...:confused2:

 

[Pa Pa Jack]

I took a couple more pictures to show the size of some of this stuff.

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We cut a really big one last year that measured 67 feet and was 5 3/4 inches in diameter. Most of the big stuff is taller than tthe high tension poles that run beside it.

 

[Pa Pa Jack]

This is a sprout that just came up in the last couple days. It is the type that will only get about 2 inches in diameter max. But, this sprout is 60 feet from the thicket and exactly on the opposite side of the barn. It's rhizome had to come around or under the barn.

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[DAY]

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[cdaigle430]

I see what you mean. I seem to have two varieties mixed together. One is similar to yours except it doesn't seem to clump as much. The other is up to 5 inches in diameter and that is the one that really spreads quickly. I have an area about 80 feet by 40 feet totally infested and about twice that size where it pops up constantly but I can mow it.

Another problem, is that this is right on my property line and has spread to the adjoining property. The absentee owner doesn't care about his large vacant lot and won't let me try to remove the bamboo from his land. So, even if I get mine under control I will still have to fight to keep it from spreading back into the same area in the future. Anyone have a nuke I can borrow?

Agent Orange Maybe? Unfortunately there are side effects-some of which I have from Gaugetown Canada. I read that bamboo is a type of grass, wonder if you can smoke it? Also, when the world goes down the tubes you have the perfect survivor plant right in your own back yard.

 

[gullyf]

I took a couple more pictures to show the size of some of this stuff.

We cut a really big one last year that measured 67 feet and was 5 3/4 inches in diameter. Most of the big stuff is taller than the high tension poles that run beside it.

Pretty impressive when you stop to consider that it is a grass and doesn't grow continually like a tree... it makes all its growth, as tall and thick as it will ever be, in the first couple of months. Ours is the two-inch variety, and you can almost stand there and watch it grow. We've measured 8" and 9" in height a day, and I am sure some culms grow faster than that. I often wish that we could grow some of the larger diameter varieties, though our stand is getting more troublesome as time goes on. Fortunately it is nowhere near as large and I do try to keep it under control.

This is a sprout that just came up in the last couple days. It is the type that will only get about 2 inches in diameter max. But, this sprout is 60 feet from the thicket and exactly on the opposite side of the barn. It's rhizome had to come around or under the barn.

And this sprout will never get any bigger... it's the rhizomes that it shoots out (and the ones that follow those) that will eventually get to size. Fascinating stuff really (at least for this old arborist/horticulturalist/biologist), even if it is a PITA...

 

[forgeblast]

as far as smothering it, mythbusters did an episode on bamboo. MythBusters Special 12: Viewer Special the Threequel

I saw that some places will use a salt mix, to wipe it out. good luck, I have enough problems with our japanese knot weed.

 

[pat32rf]

Another knot weed grower!!!!
I have a couple of patches that I am trying to kill off (the rest I just let go). About 3 years ago I cut it down, then rooted out any stumps/roots I could find with the back-hoe. I then sprayed Round-up on it as it showed its head, then a few days later (after the Round-up should be absorbed) I would cut the shoots. Last year I just cut the shoots off with a shovel below grade every week or so. This year I have been digging/cutting every DAY or two since it came up in May.
My wife planted a dozen Dahlias in the spot so I can't get the BH in anymore, but if I could, I would. If I let it go two days, then I have the odd shoot that is 18" high. Other than that the shoots get cut/pulled/dug before they can get a leaf unfurled. Sooner or later its GOTTA die off.
I have another patch that I hit with Round-up every week, then chop the sprouts.
Good Luck!

 

[ak9]

papa jack
I'm sure you could sell live plant /risomes . I ,last year bought some Phyllostachys viva andhttp://bamboogarden.com/Phyllostachys%20bambusoides.htm . and unfortuneatly for me most died.This site is a wealth of info tho..There is so many different uses for bamboo seem a shame to just kill it ..! I have a field of garlic tho and I've tried to get rid of too so anything can be a problem when you want rid of it ... wana trade garlic for bamboo ...?
AK9

 

[Pa Pa Jack]

papa jack
I'm sure you could sell live plant /risomes . I ,last year bought some Phyllostachys viva andhttp://bamboogarden.com/Phyllostachys%20bambusoides.htm . and unfortuneatly for me most died.This site is a wealth of info tho..There is so many different uses for bamboo seem a shame to just kill it ..! I have a field of garlic tho and I've tried to get rid of too so anything can be a problem when you want rid of it ... wana trade garlic for bamboo ...?
AK9

Sure, how much do you want? LOL

 

[DAY]

This thread reminds me of a remark by the Jeff Goldblum character in the first Jurassic Park:
"Nature will find a way."

 

[forgeblast]

Yeah I had the knot weed under control and then they graded the road, the rhyzomes moved back to my area.
I spray it after it flowers, I dont want to zap my bees. And then I get it again in the spring normally 3 years of doing that kills it.

 

[deereman75]

You could try a forrest fire to get rid of the bamboo. Although it might not work. I tried to remove some lawn grass from around my vegetable garden, with a tiger torch on full blast. I first mowed it to putting green hight, then hit it with the torch. After an hour or more of torching to do an area 2 feet by 8 feet, I decided to use a rake to remove the burnt grass and see how well it worked. After raking it, I saw that there was still lots of living grass, it just burnt the tops off, even though it looked like it was all burnt away, it will still perfectly alive.

 

[bullydogcj]

Fire+Bamboo=Bamboom its awesome

 

[Adj100]

you could try goats

 

[zman007007]

I agree with the hungry goats. They cull nothing. LOL :thumbsup: