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[quote=Anonymous]People need to spot spreading wrong information. I'm sure that not all bamboo can break a house's foundation, but there are definitely some that can and do.

I have the kind that is about 5" in diameter at the base. The first signs of it are shoots that are about 2- 3" in diameter that pop up in the spring out of nowhere. In 24-48 hours they can just appear, and they're already about 7-10 inches tall when I find them after about 24 hours. I wear boots and squash them so that it breaks off at the base. But what you are left with is a 5" thing protruding from the ground that looks like a giant sea anemone. These die and dry into super hard stub things that cannot be removed by another other than power tools. I've tried removing them with my reciprocating saw and that somethings works. The best success I've had is completely soaking the area to loosen the dirt around them, and then sawing into them with a reciprocating saw. There is no way to remove them with a power tool. I have several hundred of these all along my back fence line where the neighbor planted it. We don't have an alley, and there's no way to get a Bobcat digger back there. Sadly, one of my giant trees needs to be removed and this should enable us to get access to the area with a digger. Not sure what that's going to cost me but it won't be cheap. Here are pictures of what parts of my yard look like: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4102588/need-advice-on-giant-bamboo-removal These don't soften with time. They seem to just get even harder. The ones cut 10 years ago are still there and they're rock hard.

Those of you who suggest mowing it, you're talking about something completely different from the stuff in my backyard. There's no way a lawnmower blade would be able to cut this stuff. And even if it could, the stubs would remain in the ground. These stubs make it impossible to walk on the ground where they are. Also, they're interspersed with the jagged edges of bamboo stalks that are left from where we cut down existing bamboo stalks and didn't cut low enough. I later realized that if you don't cut them when green, you can't ever really cut them. These stalks are about 2" across and if you fall on them, they'll cut or impale you. The ground where this crap has grown is dangerous and totally unusable. Like I said, I'll need to get a digger machine in there to remove it.

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