Bamboo is not self-containing. It will take over that entire plot and keep on going.


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I want it to take over the area...I don't see how it's gonna spread over to adjacent acres if I bush hog it just like I do other growth. Even if it spreads over 2 acres...no biggie.

I'm gonna blame it on Bill in my will anyways :)

From what I'm reading you will need to brush hog the areas you don't want it in regularly to stop it.

Wouldn't you have to brush hog it like every other day?

Brush hogging only knocks down the above-ground stems. Cutting them does NOTHING to stop the spread of sub-surface runners. Doesn't even slow them down. Maybe even accelerates the spread. I've dug them up individually by hand and new ones appear almost immediately. BTW bamboo can grow as much as twelve inches a day.

If you REALLY wanna give someone a problem, plant CANE where it gets into their yard. Cane makes bamboo look sick.

It doesn't grow that fast.

Other ideas...go with:
Arborvitae

Yes arborvitae yes privit bush. No bamboo!!! Thinking bamboo think steve McQueens first movie The BLob! It just get bigger and bigger. An ACRE are you insane!!!

Well....I wasn't talking about a "square acre"... and I've been called worse :). I'm already planning on a long row (or two, staggered) of evergreens similar to what Paul suggested, 7' apart for several hundred feet, but am looking for a barrier (visual and auditory) along a different line that's next to one parcel of "hard woods" that become pretty open during the winter with no leaves on 'em. If the bamboo tries to "run" into the woods on that side...I wouldn't care. I'm still just kicking the idea around...

Lots of different types....someone (a neighbor I presume) started a patch on the backside of my dad's urban 4 acres along a power line right-of-way many years ago....it hasn't gone "crazy"....like me :)

PPOT 2027 i I have 3 acres of bamboo growing exponentially.... how do I nuke this stuff?

LOL....that'd be OK! It'll be funny as hell by 2047 and Bill Douglas will be famous though :)!

Privet is also invasive.

Yeah but on a much slower pace and if cut periodically it can be easily maintained.

I am definitely gonna take that picture tomorrow. KC, your plan is wild! I hope you rethink it :)

Don't do bamboo. It is evil. I had an adjacent plot to my first house in VA along the wood line. Lots of rain and warm weather made it grow like crazy. Shoots would come up in my lawn far from the bamboo and grow 10-15 feet high between mowings. I had to spend a day every week cutting it back just to keep it from taking over. Hard to cut with anything less than a chainsaw if it is more than a few weeks old. Although it is rather pretty, almost anything would be better.

We have a lot of bamboo as "fence".
We have the non-spreading-sort and I have doug out and surrounded it with a thick plasticwall (that foil you use for ponds) in the ground.
It takes some work.
I love it.

I'm just thinkin' about this....appreciate the feedback! Waiting for Vash's picture :)

hah..i'll go now! be back in a few...................

I think it really depends on your space. If you have a lot of land, then containment might not be an issue.

My neighbors have a large (10' deep) section of bamboo growing along the fence. We have a brick wall between us so I have never had a single sprout of bamboo in my yard and I've been here 20 years.

I went on a master gardener tour a few years back and one home had bamboo planted in the ground but had large cement pipes sunk into the ground to contain it. Basicaly a cement planter that was sunk into the ground so that it was flush with the normal dirt level. These were the type of pipes that the city uses for sewers and were about 2' diameter and 2' deep. They stuck out of the ground about 3" an had gravel filled up to the top.

Another type of bamboo: heavenly bamboo (Nandina) does not spread much. This is a shorter variety and gets to about 6' max. There are different varieties of Nandina and some grow short, some taller. I have several of these in my yard.

this hedge goes back maybe 200 yards. i remember when it was a mere 6' thick.

now it is double-thick.

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