Hi, we moved into a new home earlier this year and the garden contained a large bamboo of which type i am unsure.

It was starting to grow in places i didn't want (on my lawn and gravel path) so i decided it was best to get rid of it and was advised by my neighbour to put in the hard work and dig it out using a mattock.

True to his word this was very hard work but i did get rid of all that i could see, admitedly digging down about 12 inches only. Since then new shoots have started to sprout and when i dug down to find their roots found that there were still masses of the large roots remaining and traveling under the railways sleepers, which the previous incumbents had used as border.

I am now getting the feeling it will be impossible to remove it completely and it is even growing through the gaps in my decking.

Can anyone offer any advise of how to get rid of it? I read in an older thread that i should use Round Up after cutting off the new shoots. Is this the answer?