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BAZ.

i have spent a lot of time talking to bamboo experts. i'm damn near stalking them. i even helped on bamboo gardener trim underground shoots on bamboo that looks just like what you planted. the clumping type. i admit the runners are short and much slower, but they were there. the guy had a cool heavy digging bar with a wide spade tip. you just go around the plant plunging it into the earth.

he said the problem with bamboo is that 99% of the people planting it wont maintain it. he said clumping will get away from you if allowed. he pointed me to a house down the street where that happened. it was obviously clumping bamboo, but it grew out into a big wide circle of hell. i think 15 years from now..that home owner will curse that plant..

me? i think i got mine. every day after work i would scan my yard. any shoot, i dig down and remove the clump. for once in my life, my OCD is working in my favor. i will wait until a couple of spring seasons have passed and then i will build some veggie beds.

i even talked the city into attacking the escaped rhizomes on their side of our fence. it's war. i plan on helping them as well. i just need to get someone to weld a spade tip to a digging bar.