How to Remove Unwanted Running Bamboo Growth | Our Japanese Garden Escape
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2022
- In this video we explain how to remove unwanted growth of running bamboo. We show you how to dig up rhizomes growing underground and give you some useful information about how bamboo spreads.
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I should not have listened to the “expert” where I bought two 2 gallon beautiful bamboo pots. I knew they spread but he assured me that if I cut off the bottom of the plastic pot, it would prevent the bamboo from spreading. It actually worked with one of the pots with the variegated bamboo but the totally green bamboo grew out of control. So many of the “life happens” happened and I was not able to tend to my garden. I read that if you pour boiling water on the area it will destroy the rhizomes. It did actually help a little, but not enough. I asked someone I worked with who is from the Philippines and she said they use a blow torch and burn the rhizomes with the blow torch. Well, I use a chain saw and a lot of other tools, but somehow a blow torch was not something I was about to do. I had to remove all of my beautiful hostas because the bamboo was choking them out. I found a tool which is half axe and half three prong sharp forked side. It worked on the tree roots from 100 year old trees so I figured I would try it. The most important thing I found was to cut the bamboo down to the ground. I don’t try and pull up the rhizomes in one piece it is just too hard. I sit on the ground, lift the rhizomes up with the forked end of the tool, and use the axe side to chop the rhizomes into pieces and lift each piece up. I think it helped to cut the cum down because for some reason if you pick the right one it allows me to lift the rhizome up. I don’t try to do this every day but I time an hour or an hour and a half to work on this, my least favorite part of gardening.
Cutting it all down, digging as much up as possible, then Boiling water and covering it with black plastic…. Its so much work!
Thanks!
Thank you for a very informative video on how to effectively control bamboo.
Thank you so much!
Had to dig my entire garden. Its terrible stuff. Highly invasive, but dig roots to clear it worlks well.
My neighbor planted bamboo in his backyard and now it is taking over my yard. I started pulling up the ryzones a couple of months ago. It's a difficult job. I'm going to install a root blocker and a new fence when i'm finished pulling it up. Bamboo is a total nightmare.
That sounds like a good idea to install a root block along your fence. I recommend to be very thorough when installing the root block, so that the rhizomes cannot get through.
I concur! I'm living that nightmare now and he can't understand what the problem is! Even after showing the rhizome I found creeping under the foundation of my home .
You know bamboo is connected as you saw in this video, if you spray systematic weedkiller all over the leaves on the bamboo in your garden it will spread to the main plant and kill it, not very friendly thing to do but it would work.
@@559romeo Get industrial strength systemic weedkiller and spray it all over the leaves in your boundary, it will then kill the entire bamboo plant.
@@sd4568 in theory it would work. But if you have ever experienced running bamboo.. I mean if you have ever watched it grow, then take over your space uninvited. Over time or sooner depending on your region, you begin to feel it's closing in on you.
I went to war with neighbors bamboo in spring 2018 when my flowering bulbs were overtaken by bamboo shoots! I dug up every one of those bulbs and relocated them. Before long, I had every brand and variety of broad leaf killer and herbicide I could find for sale in my area and some smuggled in from another state .. and the only thing that actually died that year was my 30 yr old jasmine that must have gotten over spray. So sad!
Manually digging up the rhizomes and removing from the premises is, in my experience literally thee only thing that will "kill" running bamboo.
Thank you for this video, it’s very helpful!
Thank you so much!
Running bamboo is really easy to control if you dig a trench around your grove around 6-8 inches deep then just go twice a year, early and late summer around your grove and cut any rhizomes
that cross your trench with a spade then pull them up from the end closest to your culms. It's a bit more difficult if you have a grove that has not had much maintenance and has been allowed to spread untended. Fortunately you can use the plants growth characteristics against itself, it just takes about 3-4 years.
Let's say you have a neighbor who has running bamboo and it's come under the fence onto your side. Step 1, dig a trench down the fence line with a mattock and break any rhizome you see. Don't worry about pulling them as it will be backbreaking to do after they have been allowed to establish. All you are doing at this point is dividing the bamboo from the mother grove. Step 2, cut down every single culm. Step 3, when the bamboo shoots emerge the following spring, let it grow all the way to full height and branch out, but the minute you see the first leaves start to form, cut down every single culm again. Just repeat for a couple years and you will starve the rhizomes of energy and they'll die.
Just make sure you patrol your trench a couple times in the summer and cut and pull any new rhizomes you see coming from your neighbors side.
Seems like a lot of work and worry for my negligent neighbor to enjoy his plants whilst I could be doing something I'd really much rather be doing. Like not worrying about rhizomes creeping under my house foundation. As recently discovered.
@@559romeo Takes me about 3 hours a year to go around 500 square meters.
Even easier if you plant the bamboo in a raised berm; don't need a trench as it is easy to see the escaping rhizomes and deal with them.
@@steveberch4327 that's a great idea! Can we make it a mandatory practice to all that consider planting it for themselves?
Спасибо!
You have much patience and courage 😅
I’ll go for the Fargesia kinds of bamboo, even if the running ones looks very nice as well 🥰
Yes, good choice, the Fargesia bamboos make life a lot easier ;)
8:03 that got a "Good luck with that." from me. The roots are very hard to separate from the soil. Now let me see if it was as hard as I believe.
Eh since it turned out to be a different rhizome I cannot say I was right.
We moved into a new home, and brought several plants from our yard with us. Several of our plants' pots were infested with bamboo rhizomes. Bamboo that runs is not worth the hassle.
This really helped me out after I realised I had bamboo recently, thankfully it was young and I got the whole root system out early following your video, it only had one system with 3 sprouts, I was oblivious to the rate of spread so acted asap, garden looks a mess for now but short term pain, excavated it all out from the plant and removed it, I may pot the plant if it's not dead after the trauma. Had I left it another year I dread to think how far it would have travelled.
Doesn't appear to be any benefit to letting it establish itself when it can damage both your home and your neighbours.
On behalf of your neighbors and the folks that may reside with you, thank you for researching and doing the right thing. I mean that from the bottom of my heart! Running bamboo is the devil and I promise you do not want the devil dancing unattended on your property .
We got a few days of historically deep freeze weather in the Midwest and a local grove of bamboo (not in my yard) turned brown, including the leaves. Will be interesting to see if it killed the rhizomes in the spring
Running bamboo doesn't seem to be affected by harsh winters at all. I'm sure it's up and growing everywhere as usual right now.
Your Japanese garden "escape" turned into a place to escape from.
Woow so with bamboo we can fight global warming 😍
I'm a bit afraid of bamboo and also wisteria and staghorn sumac. They all look so nice so I might have to face my fears. Now I know how to fight one of them at least. Thanks!
There is an American wisteria that doesn't go hog wild like the Asian version. The flowers are more compact, but I like the look.
I had a yard with running type bamboo. I cannot stress enough how awful it is. I have heard that some people will build concrete walls around the bamboo below the soil surface, in order to contain it.
The best option to control running bamboo is to use a root block.
@@OurJapaneseGardenEscape With all due respect, running bamboo laughs at root block.
@@jerrywhidby.my bamboo actually made a hole through my cement retaining wall and grew through it.
Just ripped out bamboo from 10 years ago that got out of control didn’t put the proper weed block in. Also, I do all my gardening and flip-flops also.❤
I can only recommend not to plant any bamboo which has spreading rhizome! I bought my neighbours property and they had a bamboo on one side of the property. The rhizome spreaded over a unbelievable distance of approximatley 25 meters! They penetrated the concrete baseplate of the house and came up in the kitchen. After wrecking the house (due to other reasons) we had to dig out the soil 70 centimeter deep over an area of 800 square meters. It was very expensive but the only way to get rid of this bamboo! If a single rhizome is still in the ground the bamboo will come back. It would be very sad, if this bamboo would kill your beautiful garden.
I used to call it my yearly bamboo wrestling in my Japanese garden. Until a stray rhizome got under the pond liner. It took years to finally rid my garden of bamboo. It was beautiful but in the end, too much work.
Love bamboo, but you have to use the very thick, hard plastic weed block
Would rhizomes grow underneath concrete patios as well??
If the rhizomes find a way to get there, most likely yes. I recommend to work with a root block to be on the safe side.
Yes they will and Bamboo will crack concrete and a brick wall and foundations . Bamboo will grow tword light .
Could you tell me the name of a bamboo that (1) is thin (2) a runner (3) has edible shoots? I have a strip of land that is only about 22-24 centimeters. I want to grow some slender bamboos in there to get edible shoots. Because of the narrow strip of land, it has to be slender and a runner.
Those are in your videos look slender. But they might or might not be runners and have edible offsprings???
Any proper running bamboo (Phyllostachys) will not have enough space in your narrow strip of land. This is why I would recommend a bamboo of the Chimonobambusa family. They are also running but many species are smaller and thinner than the ones of the Phyllostachys family.
Examples of edible ones with thinner canes are:
Chimonobambusa puberula: grows 4-5 m tall, 15-25 mm cane diameter
Chimonobambusa macrophylla: grows 1.5-6 m tall, 15-20 mm cane diameter
Chimonobambusa rigidula: grows 2-6 m tall, 15-30 mm cane diameter
If they are growing too tall, you can always prune the top.
Hope that helps :)
I think it’s worth noting that some of the root blocks are knock offs. Also bamboo still requires some maintenance when planted inside of root barrier too.
I find the comment section pretty entertaining, regarding running bamboo… Everyone calls those who plant bamboo “nuts” for planting it… and they will spend hours to prune roses, clip hedges, or mow their lawn, or whatever else, but for some reason this type of work is a “turn off…”
The difference is running bamboo has a mind of its own. The unruly problem child nobody wants except mom and dad. Roses, grass, hedges are not.
@@559romeo Agreed, and there is a huge difference between pruning roses or mowing a lawn and the back breaking labor of digging up and removing woody tough rhizomes and roots constantly just to try to slow the crazy fast creep of bamboo. I would also mention that roses and lawns won't try to break through your home's foundation.
@@astridexplorer5096 spot on!
some of us are trying to grow natives!!!! Not grass roses and hedges. Bamboo is invasive and should not be planted in the US
Fun fact, the more you dig up rhizomes the more they will put energy into growing new rhizomes in different directions. It’s like a game of whack a mole. If you think bamboo is pretty, go to the mall and buy a lucky bamboo.
I have a bamboo invasion that my neighbor planted years ago and I can't stop the stuff. It is very invasive . It is growing everywhere and it even grows in my barn, which is always dark inside. It grows too a diameter of around 3 inches. It gets over to feet high. Any ideas will help so I can get rid of the overgrowth will help.
In my opinion the best way is to talk to your neighbor and explain to him what damages the bamboo will cause to your property. In Germany the neighbor is responsible to make sure that the bamboo will not invade and damage your garden or he has to pay all the costs to get rid of it, rebuild your garden and to ensure with effective barriers that it will not happen again.
The best way to keep running bamboo under control is to install a root block right from the beginning. Alternatively, the growth has to be controlled every year (like we do) by cutting all the spreading rhizomes. In your case, I would also recommend to address this with your neighbour as @RalphSchilling-fk9oj mentioned because the original plant needs to be controlled. At your end, all rhizomes will have to be properly removed from the ground.
Rent a backhoe digger , yes! Manually, it's impossible because the rhizome will down 6 to 8 inches. It will kill your back and remember it will took years.
Spray industrial strength systemic weed killer all over the leaves in your boundary and this would kill the entire rhizome
@@sd4568 We have the same problem with a neighbor's "short" bamboo and it laughs at poison. We've tried extremely toxic poisons specifically recommended for bamboo, and it will temporarily kill the plants, but it comes right back.
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Can a strong weed killer kill of the rhizomes.
I am afraid this will not work, sorry. The rhizomes have to be removed.
No
Yes but the plant may attempt in 6 months-1 year to send up culms again, keep using the weedkiller on any leaves that appear and the plant will absolutely die in 2 seasons.
I hate it. I dug up a bucket that was planted with it in, presumably to stop it running, and have now babies all over the place. Ive covered the area with a big tarpaulin till i can actually get at it. I wish they wouldn't sell running bamboo, its a menace.
Bamboo in residential areas is a pest, they grown-up all year around and there is no way to get rid of it until you use heavy-duty equipment like backhoe digger.the rhizomes are so extensive that it will spread super fast. Don't forget it will grow down to 6 to 8 inches. You will get through the moles caves and might find some snackes, get boots, dress, and accordingly protect yourself accordingly. I wanted to sue the ex owner of this property. He knew what He did.
If you allow the culms to grow up then chop them before the leaves sprout this will severely weaken the plant and the rhizome will eventually die after 2-3 years, or spray industrial strength weed killer all over the leaves and this would kill the entire rhizome.
Cover the garden in salt
worst thing to plant in your yard bamboo and Wisteria.
Dont plant running bamboo . PLANT CLUMPING species.. I still put them into barriers. I also only plant running species into large pots with flagstones underneath the drain. These folks are making this soooo hard.
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I hate the bamboo. It's so invasive.
I would never put it in a garden in my opinion.
There is really no control. Don’t plant bamboos.
You guys are doing it all wrong get a power washer blast the ground around the rhizome no applause just send me your money