Kill Bamboo !

Gers

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Davesnave

Gers wrote: »

Do you know about the forum rules regarding company names?.

OP is probably more sure of the plant's identity than the poster above is of our forum rules!

I've reported them.

It would probably be best to remove their quote in the above post.;)

System

OP back now. Firstly let me say I know for a fact it is bamboo. I've come back to have a re-read because I thought someone had mentioned a particular brand name of something suitable. What I saw was glyphosate and when googled, saw the that it might be carcinogenic. I would rather not use that then. I shall now go and see what can be found in the aisles of garden center stores and report back.

zygurat789

islandman wrote: »

OP back now. Firstly let me say I know for a fact it is bamboo. I've come back to have a re-read because I thought someone had mentioned a particular brand name of something suitable. What I saw was glyphosate and when googled, saw the that it might be carcinogenic. I would rather not use that then. I shall now go and see what can be found in the aisles of garden center stores and report back.

Keep googling and you will probably find that a lot of stuff you eat as food is suspected of being carcinogenic. Please don't starve

Davesnave

islandman wrote: »

OP back now. Firstly let me say I know for a fact it is bamboo. I've come back to have a re-read because I thought someone had mentioned a particular brand name of something suitable. What I saw was glyphosate and when googled, saw the that it might be carcinogenic. I would rather not use that then. I shall now go and see what can be found in the aisles of garden center stores and report back.

It's as carcinogenic as many other things you may well have had contact with without giving it a second thought, like barbecued meat or overdone toast.

You have to be a special kind of Daily Mail reader to get really alarmed by the findings of the research to which you're alluding, but in any event there are ways of using glyphosate which would put you even less *at risk,* like wearing rubber gloves and painting it on, not spraying it. The evidence of increased cancer risk, such as it is, was based on people who use it all the time as part of their work.

By all means go down the aisles of your local DIY shed, but you won't find much else there, due to many chemicals available 10 years ago being banned now. There are others, but they are not available in those outlets, and who's to say what unexplored *risks* they pose?

System

Decision made, it's ROUND-UP. Once the rain has gone for a few days, I will embark on a small area to see what happens.

zygurat789

islandman wrote: »

Decision made, it's ROUND-UP. Once the rain has gone for a few days, I will embark on a small area to see what happens.

The glyphosate will kill the weeds

LadyDee

Glyphosate is the main ingrediant of Roundup, which has now been banned in France.

Scottish_Mike

I used Roundup on some perennial weed in my greenhouse and it seems to be dying back used gloves to apply as I didn't want to spray it in greenhouse.

Davesnave

You will have to wait a few weeks to see any appreciable difference using Round Up. This is because it does not interrupt the normal functioning of the plant, like putting salt on it would, but it interrrupts the full process of photosynthesis. The plant dies because it cannot produce food for itself.