[Misc] Gardening advice - bamboo

[Motogull]

Our predecessors had some in. It took ages to get rid. You could at least follow the roots to dog them out. I have no idea if our neighbours had similar problems.

We have some in pots.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I did plant two or three varieties at one house I lived at no problems mainly cause we moved! I do look at google earth from time to time to see if there is a forest there now.....................

 

[dazzer6666]

We had a concrete shed base built over where there was bamboo in our garden. It’s still popping up and expanding the other side of the fence, up through the neighbours decking etc. Absolute nightmare

 

[LamieRobertson]

All the best with this

….sorry to say but if left it will just get worse….if you are going to use a industrial strength weed killer (chop down to ground first then wait for green shoots, then apply) … maybe try one area at a time to check effect…yes they should have put in some sort of barrier below ground ..but you say its by the fence so doing that now will be tricky (not impossible)..but a lot of hard work that you really shouldn’t have to do….alternatively you just keep cutting it down to the ground ..forever….you did mention something about the possibility of the fence being damaged, presumably from their side ..I’d be taking photographs to prove how it looks now, should in the future it deteriorate, so that in a worst case scenario it ended up in court …alternatively send round the guy Kevo met during his flat move to have words

 

[happypig]

Plant some leilandi on your side.

 

[Weststander]

Assuming the neighbours won’t take action and you don’t go legal, gradually if you want to take it easy, dig a trench flush to the fence, deep enough to see all the roots. Then clear them, every single bit (remove from your garden, do not compost!) from your garden. On the roots not under your land, apply Roundup Tree-stump & Root Killer. Controversial stuff for your own health, I’d use a mask over your mouth/nose and chemical use rubber gloves. Will probably require a few treatments.

You’re all allowed to remove all overhanging bamboo, under an ancient law I think you have to have it to offer back to them!?

You might need to make the trench permanent to prevent spread. So make it narrow. Or would concrete or a concrete block wall stop bamboo roots?

Then plant something nice your side to hide that.

 

[studio150]

Spray it with vinegar.

Alternatively when the neighbours are away organise a bamboo heist

 

[Iggle Piggle]

A picture of it so we can give it an i.d. Different types require different measures to control it...even if it's coming through/under the fence. Be prepared for a bit of manual graft though. I think you'll find there is nothing to get your neighbour to deal with it your side but it is controllable

 

[LamieRobertson]

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Is it wise to post selfies?

 

[gasbag]

My Mum has a problem with bamboo in her neighbour's garden. It spreads to her side and at one time I was having to dig the roots out as well as I could every 2-3 weeks during the summer - not easy because her house is built on a former industrial site and there's lots of rubble and hardcore just below a thin layer of soil. Someone recommended me to let the shoots grow enough that there's a hollow inside the shoots when you cut them off and then pour glyphosate weedkiller into the hollow. It doesn't stop it but it does slow it down and I now only have to treat it and then dig the roots out twice a year, and I'm doing no noticeable harm to surrounding plants or the main bamboo plant next door.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Plant some leilandi on your side.

Better still, polygonum cuspidatum....doesn't get as high

 

[jevs]

My love life is similar to a Panda.....

Eats shoots and leaves

I thang yooo

 

[GoldstoneVintage]

Suggest changing the bamboo. I have similar but in 10 years it has hardly grown, trimmed occasionaly at 5 foot. I believe there are two kings of bamboo and obviously the one you have is the vicious version.

The Kings of bamboo. One of which is vicious. Blimey.

 

[Happy Exile]

Thanks everyone for the advice and laughs. Pictures as requested. One shows the height and maybe enough to identify type, the other shows just some of what’s growing through on our side. I’m also constantly cutting back overgrowth and ivy that is coming through the panels from their side.

 

[Since1982]

Thoroughly antisocial. We have bamboo but in pots for exactly that reason. It will run underground and be everywhere however much you try to control it.

 

[jackanada]

Don't worry, you've been cutting it back on your side while they've done f all. Soon enough some shoots will come up in their house

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Looking at the pictures, I first thought it was psuedosasa japonica....but it could be phyllostachys bissettii....probably the former. As others have suggested dynamite I mean dig a narrow trench and just remove all that pass.
Tools required:
Mattock, pruning saw, loppers(bypass type), reciprocating saw, root breaker, draining spade.
You don't need all of them, but they all make life a little bit easier

 

[jevs]

Tools required:
Mattock, pruning saw, loppers(bypass type), reciprocating saw, root breaker, draining spade.
You don't need all of them, but they all make life a little bit easier

Not forgetting a big tub of SBK and diesel!!!!!

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Not forgetting a big tub of SBK and diesel!!!!!

I wondered why the rockery looked a tad industrial!