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[quote=Anonymous]We have bamboo in our yard (which we did not realize until we closed on the house, due to the time of year and the previous owner cutting it down for show!).  It runs all on the side of our house and along the backyard.  It is VERY difficult to get rid of and we spent the first two springs/summers (starts growing really fast around April up until about August) cutting down each shoot and painting on concentrated herbicide.  We would do this every week or so which would take hours.  We had a couple of people come in to give us estimates, but were quoted for thousands of dollars with limited confidence that it would actually take care of the problem.

What we were told is that unless you kill EVERY individual shoot, you can not fully kill it, since it will just come up somewhere else.  We had also heard that if you poison it and then put heavy tarp over it to prevent any sunlight from getting at it, it would die....but then we were told by one of the landscapers that if we did this, it could go underground a find a new place to come up - maybe even under our driveway or foundation of our house?!  Not completely sure if this guy knew what he was talking about, but it was enough to scare us out of doing that.  We were pretty frustrated and not to be dramatic, but I had wondered how long we could actually stay at the house, having to put in hours of work every weekend just to make our yard look presentable, BUT things have so much gotten better!!  After the two seasons of hard work, the bamboo is still there, but the growth has slowed considerably.  I would say we have only had to cut it down a handful of times this season and it was far less labor intensive than the previous years.  I am hopeful that it will continue to get better.  Now, we don't grow anything else in these areas just yet and I imagine we won't be able to for a long time, but that is OK with me as long as I don't have huge stalks up bamboo taking over the yard.  So, if you are willing to put in a couple of seasons of hard work, I would say it becomes very manageable after that, if yours is anything like ours.  I certainly do not regret buying my house, and likely would have bought it anyway even if I did know there was bamboo, but it has most definitely been a time consuming hassle.  Good luck!  If you find a zoo to contract with to come and cut it down and feed it to the pandas, let me know because I would like to get in on that  :D [/quote]

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