How to Remove Bamboo Roots From Your Garden - With and Without using poison.

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We show you two ways to get rid of The Bamboo growing in your garden. With and Without using poison.
There are really only two solutions, the first is to use poison which we tend to avoid, the second is to dig the bamboo out, We show you how to do both including the most effective tools for digging bamboo.
We also show you the root system which give you a better understanding of how it must be removed.

[@benjaminonlyway8051]

Thank you for this video. I started removing bamboo on my own and needed advice on how to do it. I will be doing the no poisonous method. I know it will take much grunt work but that’s a good thing!

[@kenebene139]

Best video on this on KZbin.

[@minorrhoads5318]

Thank you , subscribed , cheers

[@desclarke9485]

Thanks Johnny. Been trying to control one in my garden for years now. I stopped it spreading by cutting back short and using stump-rot, but keeps re-shooting every year. It was wrapped behind the fence post and shooting into neighbours garden also, but I managed to pull it out using a pry bar without damaging the fence. I just wanted to know if I needed to get all those tiny feeder roots out which would be very fiddly. From your video, looks like I don’t need to worry about those, just the big rhizome roots, so saved me a lot of extra work. Cheers.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Des, sounds like you have got it. We did't dig out every feeder root, just the rhizomes and not reshooting after more than a year.

[@mahl1799]

Cheers matey v useful.

[@thomasabbott9943]

Thank you! Been looking for this info. Wasn’t sure if it would regrow from the small roots or not. Becoming paranoid that I remove every tiny bit... never plant bamboo into the ground. Ever.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Thomas, we have absolutely no regrowth from our clump, its the rhizomes you need to get out..... so check the soil over well for them.

[@macsporken]

I was looking for this as well and could not find anything... so I don't need to worry about those small roots correct ? Only get the rhizomes out ?

[@nintendead8117]

Thank you! Trying to get my yard in order, there is so much growing and its such a pain in the butt my whole yard is going to be a hole. lol

[@johnnyAGardening]

It is worth the effort, ours has was removed over 18 months ago. Not one reshoot, and the new plants are thriving. Only thing we would change is adding a lot more fertiliser after getting the stuff out. And its not only your but that will have pain, however it will save one gym fees....

[@ColinCharisma]

Thanks

[@johnnyAGardening]

And thanks for watching...

[@leticiareinhart2875]

Hi! Thanks for the video. I’ve finally cut most of invading bamboo into our yard. Now comes the digging out of the shoots. These shoots are on a steep slope, very difficult. I’d like to plant a shrub in that area. Do you think it would survive?

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Leticia, first of all well done.... Secondly, take your time, work from one end to the other. As you start the first ones are hard, but as you get going you will develop a technique, we found a crow bar very useful as well as the wood splitter and saw, an axe is also useful. You will find that you take a fair amount of soil with the root system, our patch took as around 3 weeks to clear. As for what to plant, it will depend on the climate, as well as what you like. We put in camellias as they are low maintenance, easy to prune if needed and make a good flowering screen eventually.. If the bamboo is gone and the soil OK yes shrubs will survive. It is worth the effort, our neighbours as so happy we got rid of the bamboo, So take it slow, it is hard work, and we are cheering for you... GO LETICIA YOU CAN DO IT.....

[@WinGloryonsoi]

Tq for this tips

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks for that, we decided to dig the bamboo out as we did not want to use poisons and we also wanted to replant with a camellia hedge. Started with a spade and garden fork, quickly realised we needed heavier equipment. Could not use a machine in the area so found the Mattock, wood splitter and crow bar were an excellent combination. Used a saw to split one clump, worked well however the saw is now in need of repair and sharpening, so saws are not recommended unless you have the money to replace them......

[@RDEvans-ib1io]

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[@DrunkTalkin]

Thanks so much for this! My ma’s garden is chock full of bamboo and it’s super tall. Would you recommend cutting it as short as possible all over before trying to dig up any roots?

[@johnnyAGardening]

WE cut ours short, just short enough to leave a 'handle' to lift it out with once we have dug it up. Remember you just need to get those rhizomes out as they are the bits that reshoot. We found it best to start from one end or side and work to the other

[@DrunkTalkin]

@@johnnyAGardening Cheers!

[@theLaserblue]

Thanks. I didn’t want to have to poison the ground. I dug it out but my neighbor was saying we would still need to poison

[@johnnyAGardening]

Well done, its worth the effort. That clump was one we dug out ourselves, it was hard work HOWEVER, after 12 months we have no reshoots. Just keep any watch for any reshoots, and dig them right out. It is only from left over pieces of runners that they shoot.

[@rnburagohain5032]

That system is known to all But let me know what medicine is quick actionable to remove bamboo without digging.

[@clopened]

hi there, we have to remove a huge pit of control bamboo situation in our front garden, plain to slab it after I won’t be replanting anything, was the best poison to use ? many thanks for the video !

[@johnnyAGardening]

According the University of Florida See - edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/AG266

[@lucenecaropreso9952]

Johnny, how do you dispose of the dug up roots?

[@johnnyAGardening]

You can put the roots into a green waste bin if you have that facility, OR you may need to burn them . We had to burn ours as we had so many. The stems or canes you can use as garden stakes, we gave a lot of canes away. If you are going to burn leave them to dry for a few months and make sure you get as much soil off them as possible so you get a clean (not so smokey) burn.

[@Bernietheoc]

👏

[@johnnyAGardening]

Thanks Bernadette, it's over two year since we removed that bamboo and although it was hard work, not one shoot has reappeared.

[@steph6337]

Our entire back yard has shoots coming in from the lot behind us. This bamboo which I'm thinking is more like a river or giant came is seemingly indestructible. I've been digging them everytime I see one... However now I'm trying to plant several things in the yard and EVERY single hole is just riddled with underground shoots. My question is - the area where I want to put in a new vegetable garden, should I just go ahead and get a tiller and really till the area or will that make the bamboo spread even more with the tiny pieces.

[@johnnyAGardening]

I think the tiller would just break up the rhizomes into small pieces as said. You really need to dig the rhizomes out. If you poison them it may well kill the bamboo in the lot behind you as well. You may also need to put in a root barrier to stop this reoccurring.

[@rudyvalntine]

Thanks Johnny, for the video. What part of Arcadia are you? I can come pick up these roots of bamboo. I can use them in my yard.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Little late, however no dryads or nymphs in our Bamboo patch. We could not even give it away at the time.

[@leelanjoy]

Thanks ! Does it help if I remove the new shoots without digging up the rhizomes? Without photosynthesis, the spread has to stop at some point ... or not?

[@johnnyAGardening]

If you keep removing the shoots, over time they should die back. However this could be years.

[@eddiefregozo4169]

What if you have 200 stalks that are 20 ft tall. I cant imagine digging each of them out.also I was considering hiring a person that has mulched/chipper on the front of his bobcat. If he grinds them down to the ground will they come back?

[@johnnyAGardening]

As long as the rhizomes are removed they should not come back, not sure about chipping the rhizomes..... A Bobcat could lift them easily. We did around 100 - 140 stalks, took time and was hard work..... WE burnt or tipped the rhizomes.

[@EC-jd9ej]

I'd say get a truck and start tying them to the truck, then pull xD

[@noshm1092]

Please, I have a question my neighbor has bamboo on the other side of my fence right next to my bamboo, if I do all you said will it still come back from my neighbors side, thank you

[@johnnyAGardening]

As it sounds like a running type of bamboo, Over time, YES it will come back unless you put in a root barrier along the fence line. The other option is removal of new shoots as they appear on your side, thus would be ongoing.

[@noshm1092]

@@johnnyAGardening thank you, we just bought the house 4 months ago and found out afterwards that there is bamboo😢. We will try your method, thank you appreciate your response

[@jasonsmith3573]

that looks like clumping bamboo which is easier to control and remove than evasive bamboo that runs wild. I am currently in the process of removing a large patch of it and one thing that should be pointed out is it can run very deep. The worst runners are two feet down and an absolute pain to dig out and make poisoning them a more viable option. Fortunately though most have been removed completely by cutting a grid pattern with a 355mm cutting disc on a concrete saw and removed in blocks.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Same sort of system we used, however without the saw. It may look like clumping however it was popping up into our neighbours yard as well as pushing well out into ours.

[@ejdjwong]

Is clumping bamboo easier to get rid of?

[@johnnyAGardening]

In our opinion its about the same effort for the same sized clump, however usually not as much of it as the running bamboo, and it in the one spot.

[@ejdjwong]

@@johnnyAGardening Thanks for your info...ejw

[@christianking376]

This process won’t really work for really established bamboo that’s 40mm diameter or larger. I’ve found you need a decent reciprocating saw with a long blade so you can cut through the rhizomes and cut the bamboo clusters into triangles or squares. Then you can attempt to maddock underneath the roots and then lever it out. This process took me about 12 months on a really well established cluster in our backyard. It’s back breaking work.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Christian, we agree a reciprocating saw would make life easier..... HOWEVER you can do it by hand with a crow bar to lever them out, mattock, wood splitter and crow bar to divide them up and effort....

[@reprintranch]

That’s my opinion as well. I spent a little over 3 years removing a patch of enormous clumping bamboo (probably the species Bambusa oldhamii) from my back yard. I tried many approaches but the one that worked was a reciprocating saw with a 12-inch pruning blade, plus a 5-inch trenching shovel. I cut out chunks about 12 inches square and then dug them away from the main patch. Really arduous work, but once the bamboo was gone it did not come back.

[@GeDiceMan]

Interesting how bamboo can be seen as problem plant. In Asia, the trunks have many uses. Have you ever considered making use of bamboo before?

[@johnnyAGardening]

We do use it for garden stakes as well as for making fountains. That particular clump was getting out of hand and growing into our pathways. It was basically in the wrong position and spreading very quickly.

[@ww3news324]

Every little peace you left will do a new growth.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Only if you leave parts of the rhizome itself , the feeder roots do not reshoot,

[@wendyfromtheblock6743]

My current situation

[@ronaldbarrett1506]

Good, but sound way too low.

[@bradtindell902]

A B'root Bar root cutting tool would take those out easily.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Yes Brad you can buy a range of tools designed to lift bamboo and other plants. We just used what we had on hand and also did not want to cut the rhizomes. You can also buy specialist bamboo lifting tools, however they do cost $$$

[@bradtindell902]

@@johnnyAGardening I completely understand. We did=g through a lot of different types of bamboo in south Florida. Roots can be tough sometimes and hard to get at. Take care.

[@nachomama55]

I got a forest to remove. Should I rent a digger

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Ted. Depends on how fit you are and if you have the money to spare. On reflection, IF our patch had been much larger AND we had been able to get a digger into remove ours, we would have got one.

[@brensdaman926]

If you wanna work that hard, have at it...

[@johnnyAGardening]

Actually not that hard, and it works.

[@cattfishing]

Oh do I wish I had this problem. Lol you would make a lot of money around here selling those roots/rhizomes. Haha. I am curious as to what you did with all of that money. I mean bamboo? Lol

[@johnnyAGardening]

Can't even give it away where we are..... saved the poles though.

[@duckheadmom6840]

Tell some Chinese friends that you want to get rid of bamboo roots . They will be thrilled and come to dig out all the roots for you for free!!

[@Tugboat-R-Us]

I have the volume all the way up and can barely hear you. Am I going deaf 🧏‍♀️ 😂

[@johnnyAGardening]

Apologies for that, No you are not going deaf, the volume is a little low on that one and on some playback computers and phones it is very low. We are looking at replacing the audio, however this is tricky. Options are to use the closed captions, or sub titles.

[@Tugboat-R-Us]

@@johnnyAGardening no worries, actually I plugged in my Bluetooth iPods and this helped considerably. Thank you for the information though.

[@Mark-Paton]

Any chance you could speak a bit lower, you nearly blew my ear drums ffs