Mature Bush

[LamieRobertson]

Too early in the year to move things. October is much better - plenty of warmth left in the soil and enough rain to keep it watered. If you must move it now then prune it hard to remove excess folliage, and give it a good watering several hours before you dig it up.

this is sound advice....also its too nice a day ..get down to beach matey..October and november is what i tell my clients

 

[LamieRobertson]

Do you know whether Roundup is strong enough nowadays to kill Bamboo if you could inject into the roots

best of luck....parafin and set fire to it more chance...not that i'm saying you should...health and safety and all that

 

[WildWood]

Roundup (glyphosate is the active chemical) has to be sprayed on to a plants leaves preferably on a warm day, I'd say around 17/18 degress for maximum effect. For bamboo use a fine spray as you will find the droplets just want to run off the leaves. A useful trick is to add an adjuvant (in this case something to get the roundup to stick to the leaves), washing up liquid is the easiest available.
Bamboo can be difficult to get rid of but remember the roots although tough generally only exist in the top 12 inches of soil so digging out is an option armed with a mattock and an axe after reducing the plants height to a couple of feet. Good luck!

At least he's good for something....?!

 

[Jesus Gul]

google is not your friend in this instance

 

[KZNSeagull]

Do you know whether Roundup is strong enough nowadays to kill Bamboo if you could inject into the roots

Over here we use Garlon to get rid of stuff like that - active ingredient is triclopyr. It does hang around in the soil for quite a while afterwards though. You would have to check whether it is available in the UK as there are different usage rules in different countries etc.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Now this thread name brought a smile to my face ha ha ha !!!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Roundup (glyphosate is the active chemical) has to be sprayed on to a plants leaves preferably on a warm day, I'd say around 17/18 degress for maximum effect. For bamboo use a fine spray as you will find the droplets just want to run off the leaves. A useful trick is to add an adjuvant (in this case something to get the roundup to stick to the leaves), washing up liquid is the easiest available.
Bamboo can be difficult to get rid of but remember the roots although tough generally only exist in the top 12 inches of soil so digging out is an option armed with a mattock and an axe after reducing the plants height to a couple of feet. Good luck!

Thanks for your help, my father has it running through his garden,i sprayed it with round up two years ago, but to be fair it was later in the year from memory and i was hoping just to check it, it had little effect then.

To dig it out would be a major task as it not possible to get a digger in there and it would take many man hours. It is also on very sandy soil and on steep banking so wouldn't want cause to much erosion.

I have just been on the phone to my father and he said he has had a guy spray it with round up when sunny on Thursday,so fingers crossed.

Thanks for reminding me what a great wetting agent fairy is!!

best of luck....parafin and set fire to it more chance...not that i'm saying you should...health and safety and all that

I like your style but my father lives right next door to acres of woodland and may be just a little to risky!

Over here we use Garlon to get rid of stuff like that - active ingredient is triclopyr. It does hang around in the soil for quite a while afterwards though. You would have to check whether it is available in the UK as there are different usage rules in different countries etc.

I used to spray some great stuff back in the 80's that would knock out worms in turf for something like seven years (forget the name it begins with L i think !) but they banned that here years ago and we had to respray worms every six weeks, it takes out all the danger in spraying nowadays over here!
Thanks for all you help .