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Last year i tried to kill off a bamboo that has gone rampant all over the
garden , including neighbours gardens.

Now that new shoots are springing up this year, should I:

1 chop down as soon as they pop up

2 wait until they are higher with leaves and then cut down

3 wait until they have a couple of leaves and then spray with
glycophosphate?

Thanks for any advice.





Any in the lawn or coming up in plants just keep cutting off below ground
use a sharp spade, any in clear ground glysophate (round up - not sure on
the spelling of its proper name!) but just keep at it and gradually the
plant will weaken, miss a bit and back it will come. I would be inclined
to dig up any in clear ground the roots are generally not that deep, but
I have light soil so they are easily tamed I believe they can be a bit of
a menace on clay soils.
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea