miamicuse wrote:
I have a bed where I planted these budda belly's bamboo (wamin) about
five years ago. They started to spread a little. Here are two pictures where
you can see the new shoots are very close to a chain linked fence.
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Is this a disaster waiting to happen? What can I do?

Unfortunately, it is a disaster that has already happened. When you
have a shoot that big coming up that close to the fence, you already
have large rhizomes extending well under it (assuming there is no
barrier)

What you can do is handle it A.S.A.P. as the problem will be much
easier to deal with now than even a year or two later. Get a trenching
tool, or a shovel and axe (axe is for chopping rhizomes), or hire a
couple of day-laborers to help, and dig a trench on the fence side of
the bamboo.

Here is why (and how) to dig the trench:
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-a-Bamboo-Rhizome-Barrier

The way I would handle this, is to cut off the rhizomes and install a
barrier. Then, go let your neighbor know that there are probably
chopped off rhizomes that went under the fence already. Let your
neighbor know that there are two ways to get rid of them... One is to
wait for shoots to come up and then keep cutting them off or poisoning
them until the plant dies (takes a long time). The other is to wait
till they shoot, and then dig where the shoots are and remove them.
(And keep looking for new shoots un case you missed any the first
time.)

You could talk to your neighbor before doing any of this just in case
he or she doesn't mind the bamboo, but that's a long shot.

Good luck!