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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I didn't buy a house for that reason. You can never get rid of it and it grows fast.[/quote]

Not true.

OP, we bought a house that had a ton of bamboo in the backyard with very extensive rhizome networks throughout the yard. I pulled it all up - a bit of a painstaking process but only needed to do it once. A few stray stalks would try to pop up after and I’d just pull them as quickly as I’d see them. I needed some leveling done anyway so a year later, i had a landscaping company come in and dig out a few inches, level, add a few inches of fresh soil and then sod everything. They pulled up the remaining bits of rhizome underground that I didn’t catch and were presumably resulting in the random sprouts. That all cost less than $5k, and the result was an impeccable yard that has never had bamboo since (that was over two years ago). Seems absolutely ridiculous to me that you would skip on a house you otherwise love due to this easy and relatively cheap fix.[/quote]

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