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@@NaturesAlwaysRight Why do we have to destroy some thing if you can control it. Dig a trench along the line that you don't want Bamboo network to cross. It should be 1' wide and 2' deep. Fill 3/4 depth with Saw dust or wood chips Bamboo doesn't like. Bamboo doesn't like the wood with oil in it. Teak, Cedar, Pine etc would do. That would stop it that line. You can also try soaking woodchips in different type of oils. But the fundamental idea is same. On the other hand, do you want to make the Bamboo resettle in another area? Make it to take a little stroll. Use the same Technique, but fill it with Rice Husk. All the shoots will go in that direction.
I don't have a bamboo problem, i never searched for a bamboo related video and probably never will. But let me tell you, this was a very interesting video to watch! (y)
This is why I love TH-cam.. I’m off to learn about how to start a black soldier fly larvae colony. Am i ever going to do anything with it or speak of it? probably not it’s Cool tho
as somebody who had bamboo and tried to deal with it without machines: this is a lot of labor. do not underestimate how much work it is to battle a mass of bamboo year after year
Although I gave away the secret to kill off bamboo, I'd hate to see a lot of that going on. I understand, sometimes it's just not in a good place. But we need more bamboo in America, not less. Keep it if you can. Learn about it. Use it. Share it. Love it!
I planted a couple trees in a bad spot behind my house. Poor soil. They sat there and only grew a few feet over several years. Then in the past year they exploded. Everywhere. In my flower beds. In my patio. Busting up everywhere. Bad decision. Now thanks to you I know how to get rid of them!
this also applies to any rhizome based plant - a great method of control. Also to be aware that there are different varieties of Bamboo and one variety forms clumps rather than spreading out, so you can still have bamboo without it taking over . :)
For those types of plants it generally pays to put them into a underground concrete planter. it makes it much easier to control the growth. properly done, it will stop the rhizome spread for decades. this is especially important in small lawns. rhizomes will otherwise quickly disrespect property boundaries. and if you're neighbour applies the right kind of herbizid it will travel back through the rhizomes. neighbour facility management, let some strictly forbidden neophyte grow (Fallopia japonica, reason: tends to overgrow local flora used for erosion protection, while not providing sufficient erosion protection himself, costs taxpayer million a year. and large parts of the country are aquifer protection zones, where you can't use herbicides). i did eradicate it with the appropriate herbicide. now he has a big patch of nothing, as the neophyte had overgrown and killed the previous local flora. he actually got lucky the local authorities are very laz on enforcement. the fines are rather hefty. remarks: this was a new contract, if i had been there earlier, i would have warned them. and this was a low rent apartment property, so not the place which can afford to pay facility management to spend many hours over many years to deal with it. hence to use of herbicides. technically i would have been to other parties costs to carry, but in practice, this tends to end up in drawn out court battles, as people rarely own up to their mistakes.
I started bamboo from seed, a clumping type. After 20 years the entire clump is less than 4ft across. You just have to do a little research for clumping types.
When I was a landscaper/gardener in San Francisco, we had a few clients where bamboo wrangling was half the job. Now I’d LOVE to have a chunk of land with 5” thick canes.
My grandfather keep a small patch of cane under control for decades. Then, after my grandmother passed away, the property sat vacant for thirty years. Now, I have acquired it with a thicket of cane over two acres in size. I’m in the process of cutting it flush with the ground. I do plan to keep a small patch again, as cane poles have a thousand uses on a farm.
@@theMcWOPPER By keeping a controlled patch of bamboo, one has a constant supply of free, lightweight, rot resistant, and strong material with a thousand uses. For example, one can stake tomatoes or build a trellis or arbor. One can build pens, cages, fences, or even an out building. Don’t forget bamboo makes a perfect fishing pole! If you char bamboo a bit, it becomes even more rot resistant. Do a Google search of bamboo structures for ideas.
I’m going through the exact same thing, I’ve been back here for six months. The fence lines had not been maintained for 36 years! The bamboo was thirty feet tall and had expanded its footprint by twenty feet wide and along a 250 ft. Section along the rear property line. I’m just now getting down to the roots and trying to build new fence over it.!!!
Excellent advice but you can also use this method to direct its growth away from unwanted areas. Just be vigilant and terminate any new shoots that are crossing a line into areas you just don’t want. The entire clump of bamboo is one organism and will gradually move away from this sort of stimuli. The other way to keep it from encroaching into undesirable areas is to dig a trench and bury a thick plastic sheet about a foot into the ground leaving just an inch above the surface. These rhizomes can’t penetrate the thick plastic and this ends their journey in that direction.
@@topline2554 Absolutely! That is if you’re referencing the containment method of using a thick plastic wall beneath the ground. But if you’re planning on just cutting it back then you will have to do this every year when the new growth begins.
@@topline2554 You can bury a metal tub that size or build one and lie it with thick placstic and use the dug out soil to fill the tub then plant the bamboo in the tub.
@@spacesnake7115 When you get to my age(69 almost 70) you will wish that the only bamboo was in thick pots or metal bathtubs and not pushing its runners into the surrounding forest. This video increases my hope that I can conquer the stuff before I die 🙂 Good luck whatever you decide
I used a different technique. I cut the bamboo off at 5’ height. Then I simply grabbed onto a shoot and rocked back and forth until the rhizomes ripped apart and the whole thing came out of the ground. It was hard work, but I cleared 1000 square feet over the course of a couple weeks. And it never came back.
@@rayerscarpensael2300 I actually hired a neighbor of mine to use his tractor to pull it all out, but he couldn’t get it to work. So I did it with elbow grease and a shovel. After cutting them at 5’ height, I let the rhizomes weaken for a week, then went after them one shoot at a time. The rhizomes gave way as I pulled and pushed each individual shoot. It was much easier than I thought it would be, but don’t get me wrong, it was WORK. Once I got the area cleared, all I needed to do was plant grass seed and keep it mowed. I didn’t want any rhizomes even THINKING about making a comeback.
@@larshowen3319 did the same thing, pulled out hundreds of intertwined fat rizomes some 10 yards long, been doing this for over a year, less and less is coming up but my my what an exhausting job, sometimes I fear the bambou will win, a plot of giant skyhigh trees on a 50 x 50 plot that i don t want to extend.
Very valuable and necessary piece of knowledge about bamboos, but it's mostly useful when you want to keep a bamboo stand under control... But if the goal is to clear a piece of land to grow something else, people might not have the luxury or the willingness to wait 3 years till the bamboos die. Plus, people will still need to use machinery to get rid of the thick mat of roots and rhizomes which take ages to rot down!
You can clear them and plant the garden On Top of the rhizomes. I've done this excessively more than once. Then just break off the new shoots that come up randomly in the garden. Just keep breaking off the new shoots as they come up and the root system will die eventually and you can grow a garden in the meantime. You can also just mow over the old patch regularly if there's grass where the old bamboo patch used to be.
@@brianwnc8168 You can't grow anything on top of the rhizomes and stumps of an established bamboo stand, you'll need to remove them! The rhizomes and the remainig stumps are too dense and close to each other! I guess what you mean is an adjacent area that an established bamboo stand tries to colonize by sending new rhizomes into it. It's true that at this point the rhizomes and the new shoots popping up are still sparse so that you can grow things on this area. But once a bamboo stand is established and forms a thick thicket you'll need to remove the stumps and rhizomes before you can grow anything!
@@neonice I agree that the cane (referred to as a culm) can photosynthesize if it is green (some are yellow), but the bulk of the energy to build a culm is coming from the rhizome system. The reason this method works is because it rapidly depletes the stored energy. Also, as the shoot is reaching skyward, it is covered by sheathing for protection, which delays photosynthesis occurring in the culm.
@@neonice I half-agree. Sure the green stem can to some extent photosynthetize, but not enough to fully replenish the energy stored in the rhizome system, so as long as you are persistent and don't wait too long before cutting down the new shoot, the rhizome will eventually die. Regarding the stumps, you'll need to cut them the closest to soil surface if your goal is to kill an established stand of bamboo, otherwise the stem will rapidly grows at the nodal rings new branches and leaves...anyway, it's true that killing or keeping under control bamboo requires work and diligence! Running bamboos species aren't for everybody! People who just want a nice backyard to enjoy their coffee outside without having to spend much time and effort to take care of it should think twice before planting running bamboos! Or they will need to do it right with a very well design, good quality, durable rizhome barrier!
Hello and thank you for this video. What you describe is exactly what I did (except for the mechanical shovel to remove a large part of the rhizomes because I wanted to clear the ground quickly). When I had finished cutting all the bamboo, some of which was up to 6 metres high, I watched (and still do) for shoots that might start up again. It seems to be working (I did this a little over a year ago), as the regrowth is becoming less and less and is easy to remove. Also, the grass has grown back and as I mow it regularly, the bamboo regrowth is cut off at the same time. The poor trees that were in the field now have access to air and sun because the bamboo was so high and dense that everything else was in the shade. I hope that DeepL has translated well because English is not my first language and I could not have written all this natively.
That's exactly right how to really "dong it on the head" Many people have no idea about this and it quickly gets out o control but a little bit of biology knowledge goes a long way. Great video!
Although i really appreciate the aesthetics of bamboo and spent a lot of time playing among it as a kid, now that i’m an ecologist it definitely irks me to see folks who plant it and let it grow completely unchecked. It grows so rapidly that it outcompetes everything else, and doesn’t seem to provide nearly as much arboreal habitat for animals. Even at our ecological research lab someone planted some bamboo with no containment method long before i got there. Just this year it has started to shoot up and disrupt my artificial ponds in cattle tanks outside - ironically they are full of japanese medaka fish!
We should focus on native indigenous plants and nurturing sustainable ecosystems. My drought-riven community not in the US is overwhelmed by the dangerous and toxic Agave americana, or century plant.
I bought a house with it already planted and had no idea about the maintenance side of it, or that it would spread. I'm going to try this method to eradicate 🤞 The previous owners also planted a couple of other bamboo plants but they look to be the clumping variety.
funny thing is that there is a japanese farmer, of the book 'sowing seeds' says we're pretty much at the point where erosion is so out of control that we might as well plant what grows aka "invasive". The earth did survive several extinctions after all. this guy on this video also mentions that the US used to have a lot of bamboo in another video. There is actually a story of a tribe in south america that had dense bamboo boundaries that the spanish had a hard time cutting through.
That sounds like a much more intelligent and effective way to eradicate bamboo from an area where it’s unwanted than attacking it with machinery such as a bulldozer. Thanks for posting! ☮️❤️🐾
@@neonice Well, he’s correct about cutting it down *before* it puts out leaves. Bamboo is a grass, and when grazing animals upon grass, grass kill happens when animals are put back onto previously grazed grassland before it has had time enough to put out some grass blades and replenish the stored energy in its roots. Grass can *definitely* be killed that way!
@@tumblebugspaceKnew bamboo was a type of grass (funny thing, that!) but didn't think killing grass in that fashion was a thing Now that I know it, I may put it in practice in my garden! Darn grass gets all over my roses and once it's settled in it's hell to root it out without ravaging the rose's roots in the process.
there was a guy in hawaii who was paying people to spray roundup to get rid of bamboo. its the same with other weeds. people who get tired of pulling weeds sprouting up and then they spray some toxic chemicals that gets into the groundwater and everything. because people are just too lazy to chop it or pull it.
After the freeze, my bamboo died back, and then rats moved in. Rats love bamboo. Neighbors didn’t appreciate rats. Plus it was destroying the fences. Bamboo had to go. Removing the rhizomes was such a pain, landscaper walked off the job when they couldn’t remove it with a backhoe.
Oh shoot. It doesn't work perfectly for erosion either because grass won't grow well with all the leaves. Cutting it or wounding it does something. Pushing it over didn't work too well. I tried some jackass moves with a riding lawnmower. Nearly got thrown off and destroyed my hood on it. It's like a joke that you laugh at but it's a slow nasty invader. It's susceptible to cutting and chemicals. Anything to screw up the pH.
@@marshmower sawzall with a 14” demo blade, pointed straight down. Start at one edge of the roots and cut Lin straight lines, then across them. Cut the roots into chunks, then pull them out by hand. Use a pitchfork to turn over all the dirt, and find roots you missed when cutting up the big mass.
Also, if you live in the country, cut it down and leave the wood to dry out, after a few years, burn it, the fire will get so intense it will sterilize the soil, killing the rhizomes. Immediately replant with an innoculated clover/grass mix to prevent erosion.
If you think about buying a property with bamboo already on it, don't. What isn't mentioned here is that it will take many years for the bamboo to die from exhaustion and you'll have many more years of small, rock hard stumps from the canes you cut down (you can't cut them flush to the ground). And beneath it all, you'll have even more years of rebar-like roots, through which you can't dig to plant other things.
Yeah. I'm dealing with it now. The bamboo in my yard is in a fire zone on a hill. Its a complete nightmare but I have to deal with it so I don't get fined by the FD. It sucks
then runners are insane. i have dug out runners 2 times as long as the stalks themselves. i harvest the shoots for cane poles erosion control and plant stakes. PS. it’s an amazing hedge for pesky neighbors but you have to stay on top of it. creeks are the only thing that stops runners. i thought i would be smart and use buried stone and bricks. epic fail. thanks for the upload
I had a burn pile next to some giant bamboo that accidently got into the bamboo roots and smoldered overnight. That bamboo died and never came back. I have some more I want to get rid of, live on Guam, and I am going to experiment with some charcol brickets at the base of stalks.
Yep. The leaves are the solar panels that can produce energy for the plant. Make it deplete its batteries building the infrastructure for the panels, then take it all away.
@@darrellluck7230beautifully explained and worded. I love when people explain things like this and also the man in the video - easy, simple but I don’t feel like I’m being talked down to or like an adult talking to a first grader 😘😍
An extremely useful video, thank you.. I had great difficulty with bamboo in a property I owned, so it’s all about not allowing the leaves to photosynthesise … I uses industrial stump removers to dig up its base…
Im looking at a property with bamboo used as a privacy screen, but im also seeing it becoming a problem if its not under control. This is super helpful.
A plant like that could really help at areas with hard conditions for permanent plants. Really cool. I wonder if that interconnected root system would mean that these trees share nutrients and water together?
@@devswell6538 in most places of my country there is water and nutrients, but it is scattered through the land, so you would see small patches of green and then big empty space between. I wonder if this could help cover the whole place in green.
Thanks for the information...makes sense.... but... this doesn't work so good if you don't want to wait years to use the space... I've dug out bamboo with a pick... very difficult... the root mat is like a thick ribber mat. pick just bounces off❤
Thank you so much for this. I'm in the UK and purchased a house a couple of years ago with a small patch of running bamboo, although it is growing in size. It's nowhere near as big as the bamboo you have there, wow! It's right on our boundary with our neighbour and I'm worried about it going into their garden. I'll try this technique 🤞
I planted some back around 2000, it was fine untill it started spreading aggressively by about 2015 but it took about 3 years to kill totally, all I did was kept kicking over new bamboo shoots in teh spring time and cut down all the old bamboo to starve them
I turned the goats out on mine. They are actually bending down the smaller canes to get to the leaves. I’m not sure if they eat the new shoots as they come out of the ground though.
Once he snuffs it who controls it? It.dpread and spread idiot he be! Hello I'm seventy and have fought bamboo for half of that time . When I think we are on top of it some idiot plants it and off it goes again destroying nature.
Grew some giant black bamboo once. Year one: The stalk I bought Year two: same stalk Year three: Same stalk and a little brother Year four: 4 or 5 stalks now Year five: Holy shit, why is there a chinese bamboo forest in my back yard?!
I once found a plant I've never seen before in a forest and it reminded me of salad, but it felt like velvet. I took one of the plants home and it grew within a year to a flower as big as a sunflower with a cluster of flowers around the stem similarly to a corn with all its seeds. Next year, I saw the same flower in my entire neighbourhood... Even a decade later, it was still coming back!
I can feel my bamboo watching me when I'm in my backyard. Standing tall over me, mocking me. I know it knows I've seen this video. OMG, it's coming through the backdoo.....!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!
If I may ask a slightly off topic question; could one run excess bamboo through a wood chipper and use it for bedding for animals and poultry instead of using straw?
Most chippers clog on bamboo. Tends to break into long strings. Found the drum type works far better than disc type chippers. Main criteria is adjustable blades and set them to just clear the anvil.
@@paradiselost9946 I never found what you state to be true. Chipped tons of dead canes year after year, which were then used to line the walking paths that had been created in the grove. Nice uniform chips, no problems feeding the chipper or spreading the chips either.
@@geneeditor9545 If anybody wants to get rid of it, do so. All depends on each individual needs but If you can or know a Crafter of Bambu and think you can make an extra income do so. Thats all.
In a small garden with bamboo you can often just pull the bamboo roots out provided it is the variety that grows North South. Clumping bamboo I would use the method shown in the video though.
That's probably why this process takes a few years to kill off the bamboo. It's still pulling in some energy, just not enough to let it live through multiple failures.
Great advice, but having to spend several YEARS to kill it does sound like a problem to me. I love bamboo, but idk if I'd plant it unless I created a really good barrier to prevent it from spreading.
Let it expend its energy. Cut at 1st sign of leaves to prevent photosynthesis. Takes about 3 years. Very logical & no need to use harsh chemicals. I like it.
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Dang right if you are around it for years you feel bamboozled. It sleeps and creeps and boom! Now it's knocking on your door and selling you Rainbow vacuum cleaners!
As a kid, i bring back a Bamboo semi from holliday cause i ask my grandfather to put it in his garden. 20 years later, it's a messy jungle. This is an impressiv plant
Thank you for sharing the knowledge Darrell. What is the importance of letting the bamboo growth till the leaf comes before cutting it? What if you cut it, the moment you see a shoot sneaking from the ground? Does it help to put stones to cover the soil from where you removed the bamboo growth to stop it from getting sun?
Think of the underground rhizome network as a big battery. The energy produced in the leaves from sunlight is stored there. When the rhizome expends energy building a tall, sturdy cane and woody branches, it has drained the battery a bit. If you cut it as a small shoot, you stop the draining of the battery, and the rhizome will simply try again next year, and it will take you longer than necessary to complete the eradication. The idea is to deplete all the stored energy as soon as possible. No need to place stones. Once a shoot or cane is cut, no more will appear in that exact location. Somewhere nearby, along the length of the rhizome, are other buds, waiting to be activated.
It has been spreading in much of where I am in Calabria Italy near the coastal areas. Very invasive especially as it is a very food productive area at this time.
We have a large bamboo grove by a pond. The grove is about 40 years old. It is continually expanding in lines (underground rhizomes) away from the original center of the grove. It recently started moving across the dam that created the pond. I cut all the bamboo on the dam off at ground level two years ago. Last spring the rhizomes started popping up again. Instead of letting them get tall, I just kicked the foot-high shoots over as they came up. The shoots are very tender at that stage and broke off very easily. There were no more shoots to deal with after a few weeks. The advantage of doing this is that there are no 50' tall bamboo stalks to dispose of. I will do it again this coming spring as necessary. Even if it takes a few years to halt the spread of this grove across the dam, it is a very easy and quick solution to this problem. We have 6 groves of bamboo on our community land. It is an amazing plant; we have used the mature stalks in our gardens, as privacy screens, and is perfect for building sweat lodges and other structures. Godzilla grass!!!
in my area (Germany) we have a problem huge problem with the east Asian tree "ailanthus altissima" its also listed as an very invasive spicice by the european union, similar as how bamboo grows, it also grows over the roots, but worst part is, you canot isolate it, because it also has seeds which can be transported over the wind, being able to even grow in urban places where there are only gardens enclosed by buildings. Once its able to grow even one small 2m tree, the speed of its growth unimaginable... within only 5 years, one 15m big tree grew out of the ground, and because of its seemingly large root network, everywhere within a radius of 30 meters, new saplings grow out of the earth. Over night there can be up to 5-10 new seplings growing out of the earth, each at last 50cm... And like bamboo, it needs to be consistently removed for three years, for it to not grow back at last in big quantetys. Like bambo you cant just pull them out, because they send out a signal to the roots and they will grow even faster and spread out at another place. So you first need to cut the roots so that they arent conected to the other plants, and then dig/pull the roots out of the ground... its a really exhausting process... That plant is also very toxic so better no touching it with the skin...
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I had bamboo I planted and it was a nightmare to remove. It is a killer workout and my hands, forearms, shoulders were strong after this, but after working the whole day or on the weekend, going outside trying to remove these Beasts is crazy and unhealthy. It took me two years to remove, using shovels, a big pry bar (which I highly recommend) and you still had to be vigilant because it still sprouts up. DO NOT get Bamboo.
bamboo is used for scaffolding and is ten times stronger.... bamboo buildings can withstand hurricanes if built properly... there's a thousand good uses for bamboo. Only been used for thousands of years....
I always just attack the roots system since it stays close to the surface. Dwarf bamboo seems to be the worst with since it pretty much builds a carpet of roots about 4-6 inches below the surface.
It was easier for me to cut all of them down at ground level and then begin regular mowing of where they were trying to grow back. I developed lawn cover and eventually (probably two years or so) the shoots quit trying to reappear.
If you don't need to kill the bamboo then don't. Those bamboo may come in handy when you need one. It has many uses from where i come from. It can be used in agricuture, cooking, as scaffolding, a raft, even build a hut. Bonus is it cleans the air more compared to other plants. Unless there is need to kill the bamboo then don't kill it.
I'd say bamboo is the most helpful invasive plant, as it can be used to control other worse invasive plants like honey suckle. Grew some Chinese Timber and while I no longer have access to that property but it's still kicking. Made it easy to control for the next property owner as I dug a 2ft by 2ft trench around it's outer bounds.
Re populate bamboo infinite usage bamboo fruit crate or box instead of plastic box, bamboo fibers for wipes, bamboo native house , bamboo roof more cooler than steel roof and many more
I mow lawns for a living. Different customers have asked me to remove bamboo from their gardens. I chop them down to the ground, massacre the root system with an axe and smother it with soil. If any regrowth appears it is cut down instantly. Have gotten rid of it all in a couple of months - not years.
The house I grew up in we had a small patch of bamboo that grew in the woods about 20 yards in off the lawn line. Never seemed to spread. Grew every year. We used it for projects and school projects and all kinds of stuff. I'd never kill that off.
@@GratefulThird I'm no bamboo expert. I grew up with it and I thought it was great. We could build all kinds of things out of it. I grew up where imagination ran rampant and was encouraged. That doesn't exist anymore.
Last year I bought a pack of 100 giant bamboo seeds off of Amazon regardless of the bad reviews the seller got. People complained that the germination rate was extremely bad. I figured people were just germinating wrong and they were cheap enough so I bought them. Out of ~100 seeds, 4 germinated. I winterized the plants in an unheated basement window (I'm in zone 6b which is supposedly tolerated by the variety I got). Only 1 survived the winter and it's sitting out in my vegetable garden right now. It sent out some new shoots at the beginning of the season but I feel that it's just stockpiling it's energy for next year. People think I'm crazy to introduce the species to my yard but I think I might just keep it potted. I'm going to go out and admire it right now.
@@andrewharrison1194 Works with any plant really. If it can't photosynthesize then it has to use stored energy and eventually it just runs out and dies
Bamboo is a grass. It exists in a number of different varieties. Check the height of any variety BEFORE you buy or plant it. Control of spread can be done by digging and cutting the rhizomes. You don’t usually need to dig more than 18 inches to do that
Interesting. We had some bamboo that spread. I cut it down as per this video, _and_ poured every chemical known to man down the hollow centres of all the canes. The bamboo eventually died and I assumed it was because of the poisoning, but now I wonder if it was simply that it could not photosynthesise. Anyway, it seems to be completely gone now.
@@netmana No one knows! Bleach, vinegar, Roundup, dish soap, you name it! Also (as I wrote earlier) it may be that by removing the leaves and preventing photosynthesis, that's what killed it.
this does not actually work in real life... I've been chopping bamboo that comes on to a property from a neighbor's for 7+ years... it sends up shoots that are already leafing out from the ground... it does not send up a shoot, then leaf out. We are diligent at cutting it... literarily every 2 weeks. and it continues to come on to the property... sure it's a cool plant but there's no reason to promote more of it where it doesn't belong... after you die the bamboo could be left to it's own... we can never truly guarantee a piece of land will be managed properly for the next 100+ years... stop spreading nonsense. what happens when you are no longer in control of your property? bamboo in its native habitat can create small monocultures. if no one is there to manage it constantly it will do the same here while not providing much real benefit to native wildlife... plant native and you won't have to make up excuses why invasive plants are okay to plant.
It is probably not real bamboo then, it is likely one of the plants that resembles bamboo or is called bamboo but not actually it. (such as horsetail or lucky bamboo or bamboo palm.)
I have a friend that does his gardening by simply knocking the leaves off the plants, when they grow back, they are vary soft and tender, and easy to break. After a while, thye stop growing back.
I have really gotten into planting several varieties of bamboo on my 3.5 acres in Central Florida. I stick to the clumping varieties but I use your control method even with those.
I'm watching my patch with apprehension. This winter has in no way been as severe as some in the past, but for some reason all the leaves have dropped. Our Boxwoods have taken a hit too, again, we've had more severe winters over the last thirty years. We're up off the Ohio between Cincinnati and L'ville for reference.
Simple explanation, straight to the point, and with subtle gestures.. even a walking weedwacket as myself can understand that. I have a follow-up question... We had a chinese sort at my parents house. It was dead after it had lived out its life, but we had to dig up massive root, before calling it quits. That root does not compost, since it's bamboo. And every now and then, a dry shoot would pop out of the grassy dirt. That hurts like hell, when you just have slippers on or are barefoot.. Is there any other way, than to dig it up?
bamboo is a great crafting/building material that can be used for all kinds of things from tools to furniture. instead of killing the bamboo you dont want and throwing it away keep the cuts and make something out of them. easy way to make money by selling bamboo furniture. and since the stuff grows back quickly its pretty much an endless supply of money.
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Will there be more copies available?
@@soulmist2163 Released a new video with him today on that topic!
@@NaturesAlwaysRight Why do we have to destroy some thing if you can control it. Dig a trench along the line that you don't want Bamboo network to cross. It should be 1' wide and 2' deep. Fill 3/4 depth with Saw dust or wood chips Bamboo doesn't like. Bamboo doesn't like the wood with oil in it. Teak, Cedar, Pine etc would do. That would stop it that line.
You can also try soaking woodchips in different type of oils. But the fundamental idea is same.
On the other hand, do you want to make the Bamboo resettle in another area? Make it to take a little stroll. Use the same Technique, but fill it with Rice Husk. All the shoots will go in that direction.
How to deql wt bamboo? Get a panda 🐼 🙄 🤪
I don't have a bamboo problem, i never searched for a bamboo related video and probably never will. But let me tell you, this was a very interesting video to watch! (y)
I had the same thought, my toxic trait is now I want a bamboo problem just to put this to the test.
lol, i have only 2 bamboo in my garden ... but i watched all the video ...pfffff
I'm just playing minecraft man
Have you taken a look at "How to make cleaning fluid"? Highly recommended.
This is why I love TH-cam.. I’m off to learn about how to start a black soldier fly larvae colony.
Am i ever going to do anything with it or speak of it? probably not it’s Cool tho
as somebody who had bamboo and tried to deal with it without machines: this is a lot of labor. do not underestimate how much work it is to battle a mass of bamboo year after year
So I see you’ve fought in the bamboo wars to?
1st year in, cut down a stand of about 250 pieces 3” diameter, it’s already sending shoots out all over the lawn.
Let it regrow. Make ladders etc etc etc out of it....
Brush cutter. Any big open canes.....salt down the tubes. Mix with an oil so the residual stays. Killing the roots.
A small bamboo stand takes more chainsaw chains than you can possibly imagine before you start
Although I gave away the secret to kill off bamboo, I'd hate to see a lot of that going on. I understand, sometimes it's just not in a good place. But we need more bamboo in America, not less. Keep it if you can. Learn about it. Use it. Share it. Love it!
Thanks Darrell!
I love you Darrell
What’s so good about it Besides the obvious
If I can't eat it,I don't grow it!
I LOVE the idea about putting pasture around bamboo patches to control the spread, or using water as a boundary.
I planted a couple trees in a bad spot behind my house. Poor soil. They sat there and only grew a few feet over several years. Then in the past year they exploded. Everywhere. In my flower beds. In my patio. Busting up everywhere. Bad decision. Now thanks to you I know how to get rid of them!
Your welcome
this also applies to any rhizome based plant - a great method of control. Also to be aware that there are different varieties of Bamboo and one variety forms clumps rather than spreading out, so you can still have bamboo without it taking over . :)
For those types of plants it generally pays to put them into a underground concrete planter. it makes it much easier to control the growth. properly done, it will stop the rhizome spread for decades.
this is especially important in small lawns. rhizomes will otherwise quickly disrespect property boundaries. and if you're neighbour applies the right kind of herbizid it will travel back through the rhizomes.
neighbour facility management, let some strictly forbidden neophyte grow (Fallopia japonica, reason: tends to overgrow local flora used for erosion protection, while not providing sufficient erosion protection himself, costs taxpayer million a year. and large parts of the country are aquifer protection zones, where you can't use herbicides). i did eradicate it with the appropriate herbicide. now he has a big patch of nothing, as the neophyte had overgrown and killed the previous local flora. he actually got lucky the local authorities are very laz on enforcement. the fines are rather hefty.
remarks: this was a new contract, if i had been there earlier, i would have warned them. and this was a low rent apartment property, so not the place which can afford to pay facility management to spend many hours over many years to deal with it. hence to use of herbicides. technically i would have been to other parties costs to carry, but in practice, this tends to end up in drawn out court battles, as people rarely own up to their mistakes.
It took me 7 years to kill my Japanese knotweed this way.
I started bamboo from seed, a clumping type. After 20 years the entire clump is less than 4ft across. You just have to do a little research for clumping types.
Jup, same issue with bramble. Terrible stuff, poison like Roundup/Glyphosate won't even kill it.
so would this work on acacias like the black and silver waddles?
When I was a landscaper/gardener in San Francisco, we had a few clients where bamboo wrangling was half the job. Now I’d LOVE to have a chunk of land with 5” thick canes.
That's the dream.
What do you find appealing about it?
@Scott It's EXTREME usefulness....
Have 70 year old stuff on my grandpas place in MS
My mom has a yard full of it and there's so many cool things you can make with it 😊
My grandfather keep a small patch of cane under control for decades. Then, after my grandmother passed away, the property sat vacant for thirty years. Now, I have acquired it with a thicket of cane over two acres in size. I’m in the process of cutting it flush with the ground. I do plan to keep a small patch again, as cane poles have a thousand uses on a farm.
Yea bamboo poles are pretty useful. Strong and lightweight.
And it is the easiest thing to cut, easier than any wood :D
What uses on a farm ?
@@theMcWOPPER By keeping a controlled patch of bamboo, one has a constant supply of free, lightweight, rot resistant, and strong material with a thousand uses. For example, one can stake tomatoes or build a trellis or arbor. One can build pens, cages, fences, or even an out building. Don’t forget bamboo makes a perfect fishing pole! If you char bamboo a bit, it becomes even more rot resistant. Do a Google search of bamboo structures for ideas.
I’m going through the exact same thing, I’ve been back here for six months. The fence lines had not been maintained for 36 years!
The bamboo was thirty feet tall and had expanded its footprint by twenty feet wide and along a 250 ft. Section along the rear property line.
I’m just now getting down to the roots and trying to build new fence over it.!!!
Old guys sharing info on the internet make the world a better place.
Im only 46 but Ive been saying for years the greatest tragedy in life is an old man dying and taking with him a wealth of knowledge.
Excellent advice but you can also use this method to direct its growth away from unwanted areas. Just be vigilant and terminate any new shoots that are crossing a line into areas you just don’t want. The entire clump of bamboo is one organism and will gradually move away from this sort of stimuli. The other way to keep it from encroaching into undesirable areas is to dig a trench and bury a thick plastic sheet about a foot into the ground leaving just an inch above the surface. These rhizomes can’t penetrate the thick plastic and this ends their journey in that direction.
@@topline2554 Absolutely! That is if you’re referencing the containment method of using a thick plastic wall beneath the ground. But if you’re planning on just cutting it back then you will have to do this every year when the new growth begins.
@@topline2554 You can bury a metal tub that size or build one and lie it with thick placstic and use the dug out soil to fill the tub then plant the bamboo in the tub.
@@danielebrparish4271 why use metal tub if you gona line it with plastic anyway?
@@spacesnake7115 When you get to my age(69 almost 70) you will wish that the only bamboo was in thick pots or metal bathtubs and not pushing its runners into the surrounding forest. This video increases my hope that I can conquer the stuff before I die 🙂 Good luck whatever you decide
Ive seen the rizhomes going out the soil and one video even perforating the paviment..
I used a different technique. I cut the bamboo off at 5’ height. Then I simply grabbed onto a shoot and rocked back and forth until the rhizomes ripped apart and the whole thing came out of the ground. It was hard work, but I cleared 1000 square feet over the course of a couple weeks. And it never came back.
Grabbed with what? Attached to a bulldozer?
@@rayerscarpensael2300 I actually hired a neighbor of mine to use his tractor to pull it all out, but he couldn’t get it to work. So I did it with elbow grease and a shovel. After cutting them at 5’ height, I let the rhizomes weaken for a week, then went after them one shoot at a time. The rhizomes gave way as I pulled and pushed each individual shoot. It was much easier than I thought it would be, but don’t get me wrong, it was WORK.
Once I got the area cleared, all I needed to do was plant grass seed and keep it mowed. I didn’t want any rhizomes even THINKING about making a comeback.
@@larshowen3319 did the same thing, pulled out hundreds of intertwined fat rizomes some 10 yards long, been doing this for over a year, less and less is coming up but my my what an exhausting job, sometimes I fear the bambou will win, a plot of giant skyhigh trees on a 50 x 50 plot that i don t want to extend.
@larshowen3319 how long ago did you finish removing the bamboo and roots? Can you be sure it's not sleeping?
soft soil, no rocks or large trees may work, but not here all the roots of each one tie into each other only a axe works
Very valuable and necessary piece of knowledge about bamboos, but it's mostly useful when you want to keep a bamboo stand under control... But if the goal is to clear a piece of land to grow something else, people might not have the luxury or the willingness to wait 3 years till the bamboos die. Plus, people will still need to use machinery to get rid of the thick mat of roots and rhizomes which take ages to rot down!
You are right about that - the rhizomes decompose VERY slowly.
You can clear them and plant the garden On Top of the rhizomes. I've done this excessively more than once. Then just break off the new shoots that come up randomly in the garden. Just keep breaking off the new shoots as they come up and the root system will die eventually and you can grow a garden in the meantime. You can also just mow over the old patch regularly if there's grass where the old bamboo patch used to be.
@@brianwnc8168 You can't grow anything on top of the rhizomes and stumps of an established bamboo stand, you'll need to remove them! The rhizomes and the remainig stumps are too dense and close to each other! I guess what you mean is an adjacent area that an established bamboo stand tries to colonize by sending new rhizomes into it. It's true that at this point the rhizomes and the new shoots popping up are still sparse so that you can grow things on this area. But once a bamboo stand is established and forms a thick thicket you'll need to remove the stumps and rhizomes before you can grow anything!
@@neonice I agree that the cane (referred to as a culm) can photosynthesize if it is green (some are yellow), but the bulk of the energy to build a culm is coming from the rhizome system. The reason this method works is because it rapidly depletes the stored energy. Also, as the shoot is reaching skyward, it is covered by sheathing for protection, which delays photosynthesis occurring in the culm.
@@neonice I half-agree. Sure the green stem can to some extent photosynthetize, but not enough to fully replenish the energy stored in the rhizome system, so as long as you are persistent and don't wait too long before cutting down the new shoot, the rhizome will eventually die. Regarding the stumps, you'll need to cut them the closest to soil surface if your goal is to kill an established stand of bamboo, otherwise the stem will rapidly grows at the nodal rings new branches and leaves...anyway, it's true that killing or keeping under control bamboo requires work and diligence! Running bamboos species aren't for everybody! People who just want a nice backyard to enjoy their coffee outside without having to spend much time and effort to take care of it should think twice before planting running bamboos! Or they will need to do it right with a very well design, good quality, durable rizhome barrier!
Hello and thank you for this video. What you describe is exactly what I did (except for the mechanical shovel to remove a large part of the rhizomes because I wanted to clear the ground quickly). When I had finished cutting all the bamboo, some of which was up to 6 metres high, I watched (and still do) for shoots that might start up again. It seems to be working (I did this a little over a year ago), as the regrowth is becoming less and less and is easy to remove. Also, the grass has grown back and as I mow it regularly, the bamboo regrowth is cut off at the same time. The poor trees that were in the field now have access to air and sun because the bamboo was so high and dense that everything else was in the shade.
I hope that DeepL has translated well because English is not my first language and I could not have written all this natively.
DeepL has done a very good job.
It works very well. I wouldn't have known if you didn't mention it.
@@--_DJ_-- Damn! I shouldn't have mentioned Deepl, you'd have thought I spoke English perfectly ! (Joke inside... and Deepl too 😄 )
I guess deepl translates better than most of the commenters on youtube who post in their own language.
DeepL is the goat
Darrell's method works on practically organism in the plant kingdom. Thanks, for spreading the knowledge, Darrell. 👍
That's exactly right how to really "dong it on the head" Many people have no idea about this and it quickly gets out o control but a little bit of biology knowledge goes a long way. Great video!
Although i really appreciate the aesthetics of bamboo and spent a lot of time playing among it as a kid, now that i’m an ecologist it definitely irks me to see folks who plant it and let it grow completely unchecked. It grows so rapidly that it outcompetes everything else, and doesn’t seem to provide nearly as much arboreal habitat for animals. Even at our ecological research lab someone planted some bamboo with no containment method long before i got there. Just this year it has started to shoot up and disrupt my artificial ponds in cattle tanks outside - ironically they are full of japanese medaka fish!
We should focus on native indigenous plants and nurturing sustainable ecosystems.
My drought-riven community not in the US is overwhelmed by the dangerous and toxic Agave americana, or century plant.
I bought a house with it already planted and had no idea about the maintenance side of it, or that it would spread. I'm going to try this method to eradicate 🤞 The previous owners also planted a couple of other bamboo plants but they look to be the clumping variety.
@@banksiasong who is we?
funny thing is that there is a japanese farmer, of the book 'sowing seeds' says we're pretty much at the point where erosion is so out of control that we might as well plant what grows aka "invasive". The earth did survive several extinctions after all. this guy on this video also mentions that the US used to have a lot of bamboo in another video. There is actually a story of a tribe in south america that had dense bamboo boundaries that the spanish had a hard time cutting through.
That sounds like a much more intelligent and effective way to eradicate bamboo from an area where it’s unwanted than attacking it with machinery such as a bulldozer. Thanks for posting! ☮️❤️🐾
Agreed luv
But bulldozing is so much fun
@@aladrasullivan9018 Cringeeeeeeeee
@@neonice Well, he’s correct about cutting it down *before* it puts out leaves. Bamboo is a grass, and when grazing animals upon grass, grass kill happens when animals are put back onto previously grazed grassland before it has had time enough to put out some grass blades and replenish the stored energy in its roots. Grass can *definitely* be killed that way!
@@tumblebugspaceKnew bamboo was a type of grass (funny thing, that!) but didn't think killing grass in that fashion was a thing
Now that I know it, I may put it in practice in my garden! Darn grass gets all over my roses and once it's settled in it's hell to root it out without ravaging the rose's roots in the process.
there was a guy in hawaii who was paying people to spray roundup to get rid of bamboo. its the same with other weeds. people who get tired of pulling weeds sprouting up and then they spray some toxic chemicals that gets into the groundwater and everything. because people are just too lazy to chop it or pull it.
Sounds about right based on my experience.
Note: few species of bamboo can tolerate standing water. A much harder method of control, of course.
After the freeze, my bamboo died back, and then rats moved in. Rats love bamboo. Neighbors didn’t appreciate rats. Plus it was destroying the fences. Bamboo had to go.
Removing the rhizomes was such a pain, landscaper walked off the job when they couldn’t remove it with a backhoe.
Oh shoot. It doesn't work perfectly for erosion either because grass won't grow well with all the leaves. Cutting it or wounding it does something. Pushing it over didn't work too well. I tried some jackass moves with a riding lawnmower. Nearly got thrown off and destroyed my hood on it. It's like a joke that you laugh at but it's a slow nasty invader. It's susceptible to cutting and chemicals. Anything to screw up the pH.
@@marshmower sawzall with a 14” demo blade, pointed straight down. Start at one edge of the roots and cut Lin straight lines, then across them. Cut the roots into chunks, then pull them out by hand. Use a pitchfork to turn over all the dirt, and find roots you missed when cutting up the big mass.
Grew up in Virginia and behind our house was a Bamboo forest.. this stuff is incredible. Fast growing. massive shoots
It's an amazing peaceful plant. Bamboo blowing in the wind is an amazing sound.
Also, if you live in the country, cut it down and leave the wood to dry out, after a few years, burn it, the fire will get so intense it will sterilize the soil, killing the rhizomes. Immediately replant with an innoculated clover/grass mix to prevent erosion.
Lol wrong having been at war with it half my life fire only spreads it and sends the roots deeper!
Sounds like you do not know what the f you are talking about.
If you think about buying a property with bamboo already on it, don't. What isn't mentioned here is that it will take many years for the bamboo to die from exhaustion and you'll have many more years of small, rock hard stumps from the canes you cut down (you can't cut them flush to the ground). And beneath it all, you'll have even more years of rebar-like roots, through which you can't dig to plant other things.
He did mention "it could take 3years or longer"
Yeah. I'm dealing with it now. The bamboo in my yard is in a fire zone on a hill. Its a complete nightmare but I have to deal with it so I don't get fined by the FD. It sucks
Thanks a lot man, I have been having bamboo in my garden and they have started to wreck the walls in my building. Your advice is very useful
then runners are insane. i have dug out runners 2 times as long as the stalks themselves. i harvest the shoots for cane poles erosion control and plant stakes. PS. it’s an amazing hedge for pesky neighbors but you have to stay on top of it. creeks are the only thing that stops runners. i thought i would be smart and use buried stone and bricks. epic fail. thanks for the upload
I had a burn pile next to some giant bamboo that accidently got into the bamboo roots and smoldered overnight. That bamboo died and never came back. I have some more I want to get rid of, live on Guam, and I am going to experiment with some charcol brickets at the base of stalks.
This works every time.
so you cut it when the leaves start to come in, and essentially force it to grow itself to death?
Yep. The leaves are the solar panels that can produce energy for the plant. Make it deplete its batteries building the infrastructure for the panels, then take it all away.
@@darrellluck7230beautifully explained and worded. I love when people explain things like this and also the man in the video - easy, simple but I don’t feel like I’m being talked down to or like an adult talking to a first grader 😘😍
Brilliant
I'm no expert, but this approach seems to be the most sensible, since you can be sure you got the whole thing. 👍
An extremely useful video, thank you.. I had great difficulty with bamboo in a property I owned, so it’s all about not allowing the leaves to photosynthesise … I uses industrial stump removers to dig up its base…
Im looking at a property with bamboo used as a privacy screen, but im also seeing it becoming a problem if its not under control. This is super helpful.
A plant like that could really help at areas with hard conditions for permanent plants. Really cool. I wonder if that interconnected root system would mean that these trees share nutrients and water together?
Yes, everything is shared. If a grove was started from a single plant, then they are ALL connected.
It needs a lot of water
It chokes everything else out.
@@devswell6538 in most places of my country there is water and nutrients, but it is scattered through the land, so you would see small patches of green and then big empty space between. I wonder if this could help cover the whole place in green.
Thanks for this! I have a patch I'm looking to keep, but tame, and this helped a lot!
Thanks for the information...makes sense.... but... this doesn't work so good if you don't want to wait years to use the space... I've dug out bamboo with a pick... very difficult... the root mat is like a thick ribber mat. pick just bounces off❤
Thank you so much for this. I'm in the UK and purchased a house a couple of years ago with a small patch of running bamboo, although it is growing in size. It's nowhere near as big as the bamboo you have there, wow! It's right on our boundary with our neighbour and I'm worried about it going into their garden. I'll try this technique 🤞
you need to put in the plastic barrier so the runners dont go into your neighbors property
I planted some back around 2000, it was fine untill it started spreading aggressively by about 2015 but it took about 3 years to kill totally, all I did was kept kicking over new bamboo shoots in teh spring time and cut down all the old bamboo to starve them
The bamboo I have starts with leaves and has them all along the stem...best way is to spend some energy, dig deep and wide and get them out of there.
I turned the goats out on mine. They are actually bending down the smaller canes to get to the leaves. I’m not sure if they eat the new shoots as they come out of the ground though.
somehow heart warming and terrifying at the same time. This guy seems rad
Once he snuffs it who controls it? It.dpread and spread idiot he be! Hello I'm seventy and have fought bamboo for half of that time . When I think we are on top of it some idiot plants it and off it goes again destroying nature.
Yep and it works with non-bamboo trees in difficult places where you can't get them out - just cut off the leaves.
Thank you sir!
Fascinating and informative.
I knew the "basics" of how bamboo grew but not the full growth cycle implications.
Grew some giant black bamboo once.
Year one: The stalk I bought
Year two: same stalk
Year three: Same stalk and a little brother
Year four: 4 or 5 stalks now
Year five: Holy shit, why is there a chinese bamboo forest in my back yard?!
When the windd blow, you can hear them singing in Chinese.
@@jxmai7687 thats hilarious
I once found a plant I've never seen before in a forest and it reminded me of salad, but it felt like velvet. I took one of the plants home and it grew within a year to a flower as big as a sunflower with a cluster of flowers around the stem similarly to a corn with all its seeds. Next year, I saw the same flower in my entire neighbourhood... Even a decade later, it was still coming back!
Dude this just killed me. Love it 😎
@@edi9892 sound like mullein - a useful plant
I can feel my bamboo watching me when I'm in my backyard. Standing tall over me, mocking me. I know it knows I've seen this video.
OMG, it's coming through the backdoo.....!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!
U are hilarious!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Beautiful grove of bamboo you’re standing in. I would love to use that giant bamboo for trellises throughout my garden.
I do just that and lots of other things too. Bamboo has SO MANY uses!
This man can tell a story.
If I may ask a slightly off topic question; could one run excess bamboo through a wood chipper and use it for bedding for animals and poultry instead of using straw?
I don't see why not. It's just like wood chips.
@@darrellluck7230 Thanks.
Most chippers clog on bamboo. Tends to break into long strings.
Found the drum type works far better than disc type chippers.
Main criteria is adjustable blades and set them to just clear the anvil.
@@paradiselost9946 Really appreciate the reply.
@@paradiselost9946 I never found what you state to be true. Chipped tons of dead canes year after year, which were then used to line the walking paths that had been created in the grove. Nice uniform chips, no problems feeding the chipper or spreading the chips either.
Great advice. Picking clumping varieties of bamboo really help as well. Bamboo is so important for the world!
Plant only EDIBLE. Then eat it.
Bamboo groves are excellent for protecting natural water springs. Also could be an extra source of income.
income? Even though you can eat the shoots and make a lot out of the stems, I don't know anyone who'd buy it here.
its raw material used to make all kinds of stuff from spoons to floors, even homes. It all depends on what you need.
@@pabloenriquechavesmonsalve4786 As said, I can think of some uses, but not of potential customers for the raw material...
@@geneeditor9545 If anybody wants to get rid of it, do so. All depends on each individual needs but If you can or know a Crafter of Bambu and think you can make an extra income do so. Thats all.
Madness after a few years the spring will be choked with this weed and it will spread via the water course Wombats !
In a small garden with bamboo you can often just pull the bamboo roots out provided it is the variety that grows North South. Clumping bamboo I would use the method shown in the video though.
The green of the stalk is, I presume, from chlorophyll. Does that not feed the system? Or is it so negligable as to not matter?
anything green does indeed feed
That's probably why this process takes a few years to kill off the bamboo. It's still pulling in some energy, just not enough to let it live through multiple failures.
Great advice, but having to spend several YEARS to kill it does sound like a problem to me.
I love bamboo, but idk if I'd plant it unless I created a really good barrier to prevent it from spreading.
Let it expend its energy. Cut at 1st sign of leaves to prevent photosynthesis. Takes about 3 years.
Very logical & no need to use harsh chemicals. I like it.
Congratulations to all the viewers you have completed TH-cam. By watching this video in your feed without any searches for bamboo you have finished. Time to book yourself a holiday.
Another title for this video could be: "How not to be Bamboo-zled!"
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Dang right if you are around it for years you feel bamboozled. It sleeps and creeps and boom! Now it's knocking on your door and selling you Rainbow vacuum cleaners!
As a kid, i bring back a Bamboo semi from holliday cause i ask my grandfather to put it in his garden.
20 years later, it's a messy jungle. This is an impressiv plant
Excellent narration and very interesting - thank you for posting
Thank you for sharing the knowledge Darrell. What is the importance of letting the bamboo growth till the leaf comes before cutting it? What if you cut it, the moment you see a shoot sneaking from the ground? Does it help to put stones to cover the soil from where you removed the bamboo growth to stop it from getting sun?
Think of the underground rhizome network as a big battery. The energy produced in the leaves from sunlight is stored there. When the rhizome expends energy building a tall, sturdy cane and woody branches, it has drained the battery a bit. If you cut it as a small shoot, you stop the draining of the battery, and the rhizome will simply try again next year, and it will take you longer than necessary to complete the eradication. The idea is to deplete all the stored energy as soon as possible. No need to place stones. Once a shoot or cane is cut, no more will appear in that exact location. Somewhere nearby, along the length of the rhizome, are other buds, waiting to be activated.
It has been spreading in much of where I am in Calabria Italy near the coastal areas. Very invasive especially as it is a very food productive area at this time.
We have a large bamboo grove by a pond. The grove is about 40 years old. It is continually expanding in lines (underground rhizomes) away from the original center of the grove. It recently started moving across the dam that created the pond. I cut all the bamboo on the dam off at ground level two years ago. Last spring the rhizomes started popping up again. Instead of letting them get tall, I just kicked the foot-high shoots over as they came up. The shoots are very tender at that stage and broke off very easily. There were no more shoots to deal with after a few weeks. The advantage of doing this is that there are no 50' tall bamboo stalks to dispose of. I will do it again this coming spring as necessary. Even if it takes a few years to halt the spread of this grove across the dam, it is a very easy and quick solution to this problem. We have 6 groves of bamboo on our community land. It is an amazing plant; we have used the mature stalks in our gardens, as privacy screens, and is perfect for building sweat lodges and other structures. Godzilla grass!!!
in my area (Germany) we have a problem huge problem with the east Asian tree "ailanthus altissima" its also listed as an very invasive spicice by the european union, similar as how bamboo grows, it also grows over the roots, but worst part is, you canot isolate it, because it also has seeds which can be transported over the wind, being able to even grow in urban places where there are only gardens enclosed by buildings.
Once its able to grow even one small 2m tree, the speed of its growth unimaginable... within only 5 years, one 15m big tree grew out of the ground, and because of its seemingly large root network, everywhere within a radius of 30 meters, new saplings grow out of the earth. Over night there can be up to 5-10 new seplings growing out of the earth, each at last 50cm...
And like bamboo, it needs to be consistently removed for three years, for it to not grow back at last in big quantetys.
Like bambo you cant just pull them out, because they send out a signal to the roots and they will grow even faster and spread out at another place. So you first need to cut the roots so that they arent conected to the other plants, and then dig/pull the roots out of the ground... its a really exhausting process... That plant is also very toxic so better no touching it with the skin...
Du muss Rinde entfernen. Zirka 1 m rund. Und kontrolieren monatlich. Nach 2 Jahren trocknet ganze Baum aus. Inzwischen auch Wurzeln kontrolieren. Und kleine entfernen.
I’m in the United States, North Carolina, and also battle ailanthus altissima regularly. Cheers to misery from across the pond!
I had bamboo I planted and it was a nightmare to remove. It is a killer workout and my hands, forearms, shoulders were strong after this, but after working the whole day or on the weekend, going outside trying to remove these Beasts is crazy and unhealthy. It took me two years to remove, using shovels, a big pry bar (which I highly recommend) and you still had to be vigilant because it still sprouts up. DO NOT get Bamboo.
Magnificent beard!
Bamboo is actually a perfect material for many things
Thanks for the advice. I have some bamboo damaging my house, and it has to go. This is my way 👍
waiting years? really
@@mattw5840 waiting is cheap last time I checked
bamboo is used for scaffolding and is ten times stronger.... bamboo buildings can withstand hurricanes if built properly... there's a thousand good uses for bamboo. Only been used for thousands of years....
The best idea is to never plant bamboo on one’s property in the first place
I always just attack the roots system since it stays close to the surface. Dwarf bamboo seems to be the worst with since it pretty much builds a carpet of roots about 4-6 inches below the surface.
It was easier for me to cut all of them down at ground level and then begin regular mowing of where they were trying to grow back. I developed lawn cover and eventually (probably two years or so) the shoots quit trying to reappear.
If you don't need to kill the bamboo then don't.
Those bamboo may come in handy when you need one. It has many uses from where i come from. It can be used in agricuture, cooking, as scaffolding, a raft, even build a hut.
Bonus is it cleans the air more compared to other plants.
Unless there is need to kill the bamboo then don't kill it.
I'd say bamboo is the most helpful invasive plant, as it can be used to control other worse invasive plants like honey suckle. Grew some Chinese Timber and while I no longer have access to that property but it's still kicking. Made it easy to control for the next property owner as I dug a 2ft by 2ft trench around it's outer bounds.
Exactly! Chinese timber, it’s worth good $, the right species anyway. I’d love to have 10 acres or so of it, plus it’s beautiful ✌️🇺🇸
Honey suckle won't destroy the foundation of your house like bamboo will, though.
Re populate bamboo infinite usage bamboo fruit crate or box instead of plastic box, bamboo fibers for wipes, bamboo native house , bamboo roof more cooler than steel roof and many more
I mow lawns for a living. Different customers have asked me to remove bamboo from their gardens. I chop them down to the ground, massacre the root system with an axe and smother it with soil. If any regrowth appears it is cut down instantly. Have gotten rid of it all in a couple of months - not years.
The house I grew up in we had a small patch of bamboo that grew in the woods about 20 yards in off the lawn line. Never seemed to spread. Grew every year. We used it for projects and school projects and all kinds of stuff. I'd never kill that off.
Could be clumping bamboo, rather than running bamboo. We have clumping bamboo in our yard - very well behaved.
@@GratefulThird I'm no bamboo expert. I grew up with it and I thought it was great. We could build all kinds of things out of it. I grew up where imagination ran rampant and was encouraged. That doesn't exist anymore.
So patience, and a means to slice them off repeatedly when their leaves show. Very good.
Last year I bought a pack of 100 giant bamboo seeds off of Amazon regardless of the bad reviews the seller got. People complained that the germination rate was extremely bad. I figured people were just germinating wrong and they were cheap enough so I bought them. Out of ~100 seeds, 4 germinated. I winterized the plants in an unheated basement window (I'm in zone 6b which is supposedly tolerated by the variety I got). Only 1 survived the winter and it's sitting out in my vegetable garden right now. It sent out some new shoots at the beginning of the season but I feel that it's just stockpiling it's energy for next year. People think I'm crazy to introduce the species to my yard but I think I might just keep it potted. I'm going to go out and admire it right now.
"But it would look so good in my yard! The neighbors have it now? Not my problem. My garden looks great! This world revolves around meeeeeeee"
Starting doing that last year to the “Japanese knotweed” plant. It probably works the same.
I was wondering about that too.
As knotweed does not get as high, I cut off the leaves and leave the stem. During the season the new leaves get smaller and smaller.
@@andrewharrison1194 Works with any plant really. If it can't photosynthesize then it has to use stored energy and eventually it just runs out and dies
I get strange looks when i tell people of my bamboo business 😂 i love it.
Bamboo is a grass. It exists in a number of different varieties. Check the height of any variety BEFORE you buy or plant it. Control of spread can be done by digging and cutting the rhizomes. You don’t usually need to dig more than 18 inches to do that
I've dug and removed four feet deep before, and three months later the whole area was overgrown again
Interesting. We had some bamboo that spread. I cut it down as per this video, _and_ poured every chemical known to man down the hollow centres of all the canes. The bamboo eventually died and I assumed it was because of the poisoning, but now I wonder if it was simply that it could not photosynthesise. Anyway, it seems to be completely gone now.
@@walkfaster Yes, probably, but I killed the bamboo and that's all I care about.
What was the magical chemical that eventually killed it
@@netmana No one knows! Bleach, vinegar, Roundup, dish soap, you name it! Also (as I wrote earlier) it may be that by removing the leaves and preventing photosynthesis, that's what killed it.
what an idiot
I love bamboo. I had the thin bushy one, and I split it again and again, and had it blocking a nosy neighbor's low fenceline in no time. 💜
Bamboo doubles as construction materials, i would rather we look more into it
this does not actually work in real life... I've been chopping bamboo that comes on to a property from a neighbor's for 7+ years... it sends up shoots that are already leafing out from the ground... it does not send up a shoot, then leaf out.
We are diligent at cutting it... literarily every 2 weeks. and it continues to come on to the property... sure it's a cool plant but there's no reason to promote more of it where it doesn't belong... after you die the bamboo could be left to it's own... we can never truly guarantee a piece of land will be managed properly for the next 100+ years... stop spreading nonsense. what happens when you are no longer in control of your property? bamboo in its native habitat can create small monocultures. if no one is there to manage it constantly it will do the same here while not providing much real benefit to native wildlife... plant native and you won't have to make up excuses why invasive plants are okay to plant.
I can see why your neighbor planted the bamboo.
You seem like a really wonderful neighbor.......
It is probably not real bamboo then, it is likely one of the plants that resembles bamboo or is called bamboo but not actually it. (such as horsetail or lucky bamboo or bamboo palm.)
Thank you for letting me know how to handle a weed that looks very similar. It's Japanese knotweed and grows similar to bamboo.
You can also simply put an observer and a piston above the bamboo
I have a friend that does his gardening by simply knocking the leaves off the plants, when they grow back, they are vary soft and tender, and easy to break. After a while, thye stop growing back.
The book of bamboo is sold out. How do I get a copy. Will they print more?
The demand is there still.
Apparently it is out of print and now a rare book, with a sky-high price to match. Such a shame. Great book!
I have really gotten into planting several varieties of bamboo on my 3.5 acres in Central Florida. I stick to the clumping varieties but I use your control method even with those.
I'm watching my patch with apprehension.
This winter has in no way been as severe as some in the past, but for some reason all the leaves have dropped. Our Boxwoods have taken a hit too, again, we've had more severe winters over the last thirty years. We're up off the Ohio between Cincinnati and L'ville for reference.
Fundamentally plant it in pots in the ground, is the best method I blame the nurseries for not giving the right info
what prevents the bamboo from continually trying to spread...... after you use this method to stop it. Thank you. New subscriber.
Interesting, I thought you were going to say to dig up the rhizomes. Would that be possible or are they too deep?
Salute to you sir, touching bamboo without gloves, in my country bamboo have some tiny Thorns itchy and painful.
Thanks for the education.
Excellent, simple, it works
Old people are wise. Thank you.
Simple explanation, straight to the point, and with subtle gestures.. even a walking weedwacket as myself can understand that.
I have a follow-up question...
We had a chinese sort at my parents house.
It was dead after it had lived out its life, but we had to dig up massive root, before calling it quits.
That root does not compost, since it's bamboo. And every now and then, a dry shoot would pop out of the grassy dirt. That hurts like hell, when you just have slippers on or are barefoot..
Is there any other way, than to dig it up?
I am so glad I watched your video.
Lotsa bamboo in Vancouver...
They make pretty good fishing poles.
bamboo is a great crafting/building material that can be used for all kinds of things from tools to furniture.
instead of killing the bamboo you dont want and throwing it away keep the cuts and make something out of them.
easy way to make money by selling bamboo furniture.
and since the stuff grows back quickly its pretty much an endless supply of money.