Your bamboo knows no limits? It not only overgrows your own garden but also that of your neighbour. Now at the latest you are faced with the task of having to destroy the bamboo. And permanently from the leaves to the last root.

Destroy bamboo permanently

Plants under 1 meter tall can be completely dug up and disposed of with pure muscle power and a sharp ax or spade. Depending on the size and type of bamboo, the use of a mini excavator may make sense. Especially with the rhizome-forming bamboo species, the root system must be completely out of the ground.

If you don't want to use chemical agents to destroy the bamboo, you need a lot of patience and time. Depending on the extent of the limitless wild growth, there are the following options:

  • Chop up roots with a motor hoe
  • Mow off new shoots with a lawnmower
  • Paper method for free lawns
  • culm cutting method

In order to destroy the root system with the motor hoe, we recommend:

  • Cut the bamboo close to the ground
  • Chop through the site with the motor hoe
  • Mill the root system into the smallest possible chips

Work the soil 2 meters all around and half a meter deep several times in all directions with the motor hoe. Let the soil dry out for several weeks. Root pieces less than 5 centimeters in size no longer sprout again. Dig up and dispose of all roots from 1 centimeter at the outermost edges of the site. They usually run almost as straight as an underground cable below the surface of the ground and are easy to find.

Regularly mow off new shoots with a lawnmower

Just dig up larger specimens. Repeat the procedure to continuously starve the new shoots of the plants.
Lay out paper or cardboard at least 10 centimeters high on open lawns. Cover this layer with sturdy black foil. Fix the foil at the edges with stones. After 5 months at the latest, no new shoots will grow back.

The culm cutting method has a permanent effect

First, cut off all old stalks to the ground. If the new shoots have already started, let the stalks grow! Until side branches fold out. Then cut these stalks back down to the ground. As soon as small growths appear at the cutting points, cut them off immediately. Green must no longer form on the stalks.

If the bamboo tries to sprout again next spring, repeat the procedure. As a result, fewer and thinner stalks are formed. After a few years, the bamboo is destroyed. Because without green no photosynthesis takes place and all nutrients from the rhizomes are used up. After a few years, the entire root system in the ground will rot. So the garden is bamboo-free without the use of poison and muscle or machine power. Just takes time and patience!

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