HELP - Bamboo!
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "Jon" contains these words:
We moved into our house a year ago and the bamboo was (and still is)
taking
over the garden.
How can I kill some of it off please????
If you are anywhere near Norfolk you can put some my way.
Don't listen to Franz - he hasn't got any pandas to keep his down....
We had some clumps of bamboo when I was an anklebiter, and in twenty
years the clumps hardly enlarged at all. You seem to have a nice
vigorous example. Cut the canes each year and grow runner beans is my
advice......
You might have to do a bit of hard digging and chopping if you really
want to reduce them, but just trimming off any new root extensions with
a spade isn't difficult, and killing the whole clump isn't a great
problem either. Glyphosate in the mid spring should do the job, but
unfortunately it doesn't dig the roots up.
And there lies the rub.
Franz
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