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How to kill bamboo

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agswin1988
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Any ideas on best way to kill big bamboo that was trimmed back to ground level but is now coming back out
combat wombat™
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You don't.

aggieforester05
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Bulldozer + Fire

Seriously, we got rid of it for a friend by scraping it out with a skid steer roots and all. Still gone and that was close to a decade ago.
CactusThomas
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agswin1988 said:

Any ideas on best way to kill big bamboo that was trimmed back to ground level but is now coming back out


Mow it every week. For a couple years. Its soft when it comes up and mows easily. Just keep at it until the roots die but it takes a lot of time.
Ragoo
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Buy a panda
Funky Winkerbean
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Repeated applications of RoundUp and keep it mowed.
AnScAggie
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I've been fighting it for 12 years, I've yet to win the war.
maroon barchetta
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Lt. Dan can call in some fast movers and nape the entire area.
Jason C.
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Funky Winkerbean said:

Repeated applications of RoundUp and keep it mowed.


Yeah I mowed them filled the cavities with Roundup, diesel, remedy, fertilizer, or whatever I had had handy after I mowed and had luck that way.
MaxPower
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Ragoo said:

Buy a panda
This is the way
Ulrich
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Yeah, but how do you get rid of pandas?
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Ulrich said:

Yeah, but how do you get rid of pandas?

Just get all female pandas. Or males.

Problem will eventually solve itself, despite what Disney thinks.
TdoubleH
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Ulrich said:

Yeah, but how do you get rid of pandas?


Post on OB when you're ready.
Lonestar-aught-six
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I bet bbq panda is delicious.
Funky Winkerbean
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Or a soil sterilant if it's a small area.
Micropterus
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Doesnt like frequent mowing and will die out eventually if you keep it mowed. 5% Roundup pro concentrate solution with 1% MSO, multiple apps. 3-5% Arsenal AC + 1% MSO if you dont have desirable trees or other vegetation in the area. Assuming a yard, Arsenal is a no go.
Apache
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Border the area around your yard with 24" deep root barrier, otherwise roots outside will continue to invade.

Method I use:
Cut down & dig up all roots possible.
Dig up any new growth you see roots & all. (If you can't do this, hit new growth with mix per micropterus recs)
mickeyrig06sq3
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It's easy to get rid of bamboo in your yard. You just move and get a new one.
evestor1
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I had this in my side yard. 20x40 of it. I had a skid steer take it down and scrape it 6".


Six month later I had the skid steer back out to take another 6". Amazing root systems!
P.H. Dexippus
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Cut bamboo. Paint ends with Tordon RTU using a foam applicator. Covering the entire area with a tarp to deny it any sunlight for a month or two also helps.
maroon barchetta
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Plant banana trees next to the bamboo and see who wins.
theJonatron
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I bought my house in 2015 and the garden was FULL of bamboo.
I hired some guys to cut it down and haul it off.
I then sprayed roundup pretty often for about a year.

no more bamboo and hasn't come back.
AggieStan
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THis works.....pour Round up directly into the hollow of the bamboo, repeat couple times.
HalifaxAg
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Ulrich said:

Yeah, but how do you get rid of pandas?
I'm getting popcorn ready for when the pandas start showing up on trailcams and home security cams.
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