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- Tom - wrote:
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Can anyone tell me how to get rid of bamboo, permanently, without
having
to pull it up. I live in east-central Georgia and have quite a bit in
my
back yard. We just purchased the house a couple of months ago and would
like to be able to have use of all the back yard. I've been told if you
cut the stalk it will just grow right back. I've read that bamboo is a
grass, and thus believe the advise about it growing back after cutting
it
down. Are there any chemicals, or sprays, that would kill just the
bamboo,
and not the rest of the grass?



TIA,
Hawkeye65

Here, read this:
http://www.americanbamboo.org/Genera...ingBamboo.html.
A method I've used to control/kill noxious weed trees such as maple
and
sumac is to quickly cut through the small tree or sapling then, within
seconds, paint the cut surface with a concentrate of glyphosate straight
from the bottle. I was also wondering if a basal bark application of
glyphosate or trichlopyr would work.

Tom

Tom, would that approach work on Poison Ivy vines? I have quite a few
vines that are easily 3 inches in diameter climbing the trees here.

Sorry, don't mean to hijack the bamboo thread as I am taking notes on
that as well.

Thanks


I think it would work. I've never let poison ivy get very far off the
ground before I killed it. I had it amongst a rose bush once. The two
plants' roots were entangled. I cut the stem back to four or five leaves
then painted the top and bottom sides of the leaves with glyphosate from the
bottle. It withered and died.
Be careful with other vegetation killers when working within the
desirable plant's root zone. Keep it on the cut area or on the weed's
leaves.

Tom