Your bamboo knows no limits? It not only overgrows your own garden but also your neighbor's. 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.
How can you permanently destroy bamboo?
To permanently destroy bamboo, you can dig it up using muscle power, chop up the roots with a motor hoe, mow down new shoots regularly or use the stalk cutting method. If growth is large, the use of a mini excavator is recommended.
Permanently destroy bamboo
Plants under 1 meter in height can be completely dug up and disposed of using pure muscle power and a sharp ax (€32.00 on Amazon) or digging spade. Depending on the size and type of bamboo, using a mini excavator may make sense. Especially with the rhizome-forming bamboo species, the root system must be completely removed from the soil.
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:
- Crushing the roots with a motor hoe
- Mow new growth with a lawnmower
- Paper method for clear lawns
- Stem cutting method
To destroy the roots with a motor hoe we recommend:
- Cut the bamboo close to the ground
- hoe the site with the motor hoe
- Mill the roots into the smallest possible chips
Work the ground criss-cross several times with the motor hoe, 2 meters all around and half a meter deep. Allow the soil to dry out for several weeks. Root pieces smaller than 5 centimeters no longer sprout. Dig up and dispose of all roots of 1 centimeter or more at the outermost edges of the site. As a rule, they run almost as straight as an underground cable under the ground surface and are easy to find.
Mow new growth regularly with a lawnmower
Simply dig up larger specimens. Repeat the procedure to continuously starve the plants' new shoots. Lay paper or cardboard at least 10 centimeters high on open lawns. Cover this layer with sturdy, black foil. Attach the foil to the edges with stones. After 5 months at the latest, new shoots will no longer grow back.
Straw cutting method has a lasting effect
First cut off all old stalks to the ground. If new growth has already begun, let the stalks grow! Until side branches unfold. Then cut all of these stalks back down to the ground. As soon as small growths appear at the interfaces, cut them off immediately. Green must no longer form on the stalks.
If the bamboo tries to sprout again next spring, repeat the procedure. This means that fewer and thinner stalks are formed. After a few years the bamboo is destroyed. Because without greenery there is no photosynthesis and all the nutrients from the rhizomes are used up. After a few years, the entire root system rots in the ground. This means the garden is bamboo-free without the use of poisons and muscle or machine power. It just takes time and patience!
