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[quote=Anonymous]We knew when we moved into our house that we would have an issue with bamboo from a neighbor's yard.  The previous owners of our house had done a nice job with landscaping and had made a concerted effort to attack the bamboo problem, which had kept it at bay.  The first two years we spent some effort pulling every new shoot we saw, and that seems to have been reasonably effective three years later (didn't want to use herbicides with a kid in the yard).  We still get the odd shoot here and there (and that's part of the problem with bamboo - you'll get a random shoot 5 feet into your yard), but nothing major.  The neighbors have a short strip of bamboo, maybe 10 feet long, not the wall the OP describes, but it is pervasive.  I think a wall of bamboo would be a show-stopper, particularly if your goal was to make your yard child-friendly.  Our bamboo is not in the area where our child plays, so it hasn't been a problem.

The neighbors in question don't do anything with their yard - there are all sorts of invasive plants (vines, bamboo, ivy) that find their way into our yard through the fence.  At one point we (nicely) asked if they might consider dealing with their bamboo.  Their response was that they didn't want to get rid of it because their kids liked playing in it.  Um, what?  Their kids, by the way, are high school age and never (ever) go outside in their back yard.

So back to OP's original query - large swaths of bamboo are really hard to get rid of without a significant investment of effort, time and potentially money.

If you like bamboo, invest in concrete or other solid planters so it can be contained.   [/quote]

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