Just acquired a lake lot that is full of Bamboo. We went in this February and cut all of it down, now its coming back. Went back in and chopped back down, sprayed with a mixture of 1 pint to a gallon of water and knocked it back but now its starting new shoots. Any good ideas on what to spray with next?
 

Many years ago neighbor, who liked to fish, planted bamboo in his yard. It expanded to our property line. He dug a ditch to keep it contained, didn't work. He got tired of it eventually,cut the bamboo down, kept the shoots knocked off with the back of an ax head. Got rid of bamboo after a while. I own that property now and there is no bamboo there now. My suggestion is to mow the bamboo often until there are no shoots coming out. Doing this one summer should end the bamboo.

KEH
 
I have a very good idea. Simply dig up some and send it to me. I have a few area I need something that will grow well to help keep land from being eaten away by a creek
 
this has been a huge project taking about 3 weekends to do and over 30 pickup loads. We couldn't burn it so we had to cut the canes down (40 foot tall and between 3 to 6 inches in diameter) and haul a hour and then we dried and burned. It grows 6 foot in 2 weeks and had rather spray due to time. Thinking maybe some Crossbow next time but don't want to use pramitol due to nothing will grow for a year.
 
That is just about the type of stuff I need in the creek. Creek floods and I loose land and would love to stop it form happening
 

Yrs back I was told government planted Sea cane to control soil erosion and my neighbors have tried several different types of herbicides to try to kill it with no success.
 
I know Tordon RTU herbicide works to paint on tree stumps. It gets absorbed down into the roots and kills the tree. Not sure if it works on bamboo. Might be worth doing some research...
 
Keeping it mown is the best bet if it's actually bamboo rather than knotweed. It always stored up for the spring, and shoots then. If you mow them all down and keep it mown, it's got nothing for next year.
 
You are going to have to be more diligent than mowing it just this year. I have some that has been on this farm for years. I mowed it every week two years ago, last year it was about down to half and still kept mowing, and this year there are just a few shoots. It's invasive. The worst part of mowing it is that you leave the stumps sticking up to pop your tires. The little devils never rot off. If I did get it this year I will remove a couple feet of dirt and then replace it so I can plant yard there. It's a mess.
 

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