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Kill Bamboo !

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  • System
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    This morning a watched a youtube where bamboo was cur down to about 5 inches, cotton wool pushed down the open end with a phillips screwdriver and a few drops of chemical allowed to drip onto cotton wool.Phew, what a long-winded process.

    There are now two schools of thought. Mine and the wife's.

    My idea is to cut down to about 5 inches and spray round-up in it and wait.

    The other idea, is to rake up gravel, remove plastic sheeting, dig for roots, cut or pull, then spray whatever is left. Then replace sheeting, gravel and hope.

    Only time will tell, but it has been earmarked for tomorrow.
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  • zygurat789
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    islandman wrote: »
    This morning a watched a youtube where bamboo was cur down to about 5 inches, cotton wool pushed down the open end with a phillips screwdriver and a few drops of chemical allowed to drip onto cotton wool.Phew, what a long-winded process.

    There are now two schools of thought. Mine and the wife's.

    My idea is to cut down to about 5 inches and spray round-up in it and wait.

    The other idea, is to rake up gravel, remove plastic sheeting, dig for roots, cut or pull, then spray whatever is left. Then replace sheeting, gravel and hope.

    Only time will tell, but it has been earmarked for tomorrow.

    Roundup (glyphosate) is taken in by the plant through its leaves, therefore, the more leaves you cut from the plant etc
    The only thing that is constant is change.
  • Davesnave
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    zygurat789 wrote: »
    Roundup (glyphosate) is taken in by the plant through its leaves, therefore, the more leaves you cut from the plant etc

    Although if you paint it neat into cuts on a freshly felled tree, or pour some strongly mixed dilution into holes in the same, and then cover, that's a fairly sound method of preventing re-growth.

    Trees I've done this with have not been hollow, like bamboo, however.
  • zygurat789
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Although if you paint it neat into cuts on a freshly felled tree, or pour some strongly mixed dilution into holes in the same, and then cover, that's a fairly sound method of preventing re-growth.

    Trees I've done this with have not been hollow, like bamboo, however.

    Bamboo is a grass, not a tree, just give it a spray.
    The only thing that is constant is change.
  • TonyMMM
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    Don't cut it first...

    Spray - wait for it to go brown and look like it's dying ...then cut down as far as you can...

    Dig out as much root ball as you can if possible.

    Quite quickly any root left will re-sprout and new green shoots will appear - let them get about a foot high then spray again.

    repeat until completely gone....
  • ukjoel
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    Wouldnt it be easier to take a photo and stick it on ebay.

    We did this for some black bamboo we had a few years ago that had gone rampant and sold about 10 clumps at £30 a shot.

    Appreciate some species are worth more than others but why spend money on killing it off when you could be paid money for someone else to do all the work.
  • System
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    O/P here again. We compromised in our approach. Because we have half a dozen area's where the bamboo grows, in some places we simply sprayed, in others cut down to about 6" and sprayed and made sure it went into hole.

    I have about a dozen containers, that were kitchen swing bins bought as a "job lot" without lids. These contain bamboo and they are utilised in the garden, dragged from one place to another, depending on our fancy. Ideally I would buy more and create more. One idea we have is to use a cultivating saw and cut sections off the main clumps and simply dump the bits in containers, wait till they are established, then see them off.

    Anyway, I will report back as and when we notice the bamboo dying back. Thanks for your contributions.
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