Remove bamboo - forever - but how and with what? If you want to permanently and completely destroy bamboo plants in the garden, you have to know whether it is a clumpy or a dangerous, grove-forming bamboo species.

A bamboo with a rhizome barrier or a clumpy bamboo variety is much easier to remove. These include the non-hardy Fargesia. They form new culms directly from the root ball and only spread slowly.

Bamboo without borders

In the case of the wildly growing counterpart - the grove-forming bamboo plants - the rhizomes branch out up to 10 meters in all directions and up to 1 meter deep. Rhizomes are thick oval-shaped roots that spread out indefinitely as new root balls with their own shoots. Known as bamboo varieties without borders are for example:

  • sasa
  • pleioblastus
  • Phyllostachys

Better sooner than too late, mother plant and all rhizomes need to be dug up and removed. They grow through and damage masonry, buildings, sidewalks and streets! Nothing can stop you!

Know-how, manpower and professional tools

Above all, removing an overgrown bamboo requires time and patience. Everything needs to be planned and calculated, from the right time to the right special tool, including the mini excavator. The garden needs to be dug up and replanted. In addition, the excavation should be completed in one growing season! The most important tools and materials to remove the bamboo:

  • lawn mower (optional)
  • mini excavator (optional)
  • shovel
  • Grave spade Holstein for normal work
  • Drainage spade with fiberglass handle for bamboo barrier
  • Digging spade with D-handle for digging up bamboo
  • garden sieve
  • protective clothing and goggles

In general, the bamboo can be destroyed all year round. It is more advantageous in the spring when the first new green shoots sprout. Now the bamboo activates its energy reserves for growth. Therefore a much better time to destroy him successfully than when he is inactive.

Start by removing the outermost bamboo shoots towards the mother plant. First destroy the complete bamboo ring around the outside. So you can limit and control the wild growth on the first day. The closer you get to the mother plant, the stronger and harder the root network. Sieve the excavated soil and discard bamboo rhizomes before backfilling the soil.

Restrict instead of letting them emigrate

The best weapon against rampant growth is containment: With a special rhizome barrier, you can clearly limit the location of the bamboo. Then the bamboo stays quite safely within its borders and does not undermine your own garden or that of the neighbour. But check regularly whether the rhizome barrier is tight.

tips and tricks

The rhizomes must not be put in the compost! A new bamboo can grow from every rhizome that is severed or left in the ground! And the work was free!

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