Many rhizome-based foliage is impossible to eradicate. I’m on property where the former owner decided it would be a great idea to plant bamboo everywhere. It was not a great idea.
Bamboo is a pestilence. It chokes out grass, destroys our native oaks by smothering their crowns, and it’s almost impossible to destroy.
The only effective way to eradicate bamboo is to dig out the root ball. I have two 4’x10’ deep holes on my property where I had massive clumps of bamboo removed from near my house. I was told it could still grow back if anything was missed, and I’m reluctant to douse my land with gly considering I’m on well water.
So my hat’s off to Japanese knotweed. If you’re anything like your cousin, I pray many generations of goats get fat on your foliage.
My father took a couple of galvanized trash cans, cut the bottoms out, and buried them with the rims at ground level. The bamboo planted in these stayed contained.
The most obnoxious invasive weeds I’ve had to deal with in Arizona are Bermuda grass and paradise tree (an imported Asian sumac). Both will regrow from any bit of root left in the ground, and Roundup doesn’t seem all that effective against them.
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Bamboo is a pestilence. It chokes out grass, destroys our native oaks by smothering their crowns, and it’s almost impossible to destroy.”
When we bought this property it had numerous fruit trees mostly cherry...
One year most of the cherry trees died. The Morton Arboretum asks that my wife bring in a branch.
They said that the trees had been planted at the same time and have a fixed life span.A few more years all the fruit trees were gone except my favorite, the massive mulberry.
My wife hated it but every critter in the county would stop by on summer nights for a fruit dessert.
One sad day the local power company was canvassing for approval to trim near the power lines, this happens every few years but this time my wife approved the complete removal, we pay nothing. I still miss that tree.
A friend suggested bamboo and they say it does well in northern Illinois.
I have heard bad things but most are from Florida.
Now thinking I will pass on the bamboo.
I don’t know about Bamboo but when we bought our place, we had probably 2 or 3 acres choked with Georgia Cane, which looks a lot like Bamboo. It turns out that it is like candy to cows and the goats will eat it but not like the cows.
We are now down to a spot about the size of a 1 car garage and working on that.