Anonymous wrote: Second of all, if you leave it alone it will be fine. Do not antagonize it and it will not antagonize you.

Yeah, that works for things like bees, but not spreading bamboo. If you leave it alone, the spreading kind WILL TAKE OVER and won't stop. I don't want a yard that becomes a dense bamboo forest that I can't walk in. If you don't fight it, that is what you will get and it won't take long. Again, you don't know what you are talking about. Dealing with bamboo like this is not a misplaced obsession or overreaction. But you wouldn't know that because I bet you have never had the spreading kind in your yard. So quit telling me to not take it seriously and stop being such a troll.

Lordy, you people are obsessed and crazy. It does not stink, first of all. I can smell anything and I can not smell bamboo. Maybe its you.

Second of all, if you leave it alone it will be fine. Do not antagonize it and it will not antagonize you. Much like people. Do you know anything about people? Does anyone talk to you? Ever?

Third of all, I really wish my insane neighbor would get a hobby and get off DCUM.

Case in point: "horrifying", PP? Really? Wow.

You seriously need meds if you think bamboo is (your word here) "horrifying". Yikes.

Anonymous wrote:

Our neighbor's bamboo (they didn't plant it--a previous neighbor did) is now growing under their fence into our yard. Do you think 3 ft down is deep enough? Also, it would seem that sheet metal would be more resistant? Concrete could eventually crumble? Thanks for your thoughts.

Concrete can crumble - you'll see bamboo pushing its way through concrete and asphalt all over the place, once you've fought the battle for a while. But I think the idea is that concrete can limit the bamboo growth until it starves itself and stops trying to infiltrate your yard. (Bamboo is everywhere, it's horrifying.) Sheet metal should work. And 3 feet should be enough. Once we eradicated everything above ground in our yard, we've had some decent success with patrolling the fence line for culms and keeping every inch of our yard mowed to within an inch of its life. We saw fewer shoots this year than last. Depending on what we see after winter, we'll keep going as we are, or we'll trench our entire yard.

Anonymous wrote:If it is on your own property, and you can't afford to have it properly removed, then decide it is not an issue, or move.

If you can't afford to move, it is not an issue, is it?

I can't imagine beating my head against a wall about something that clearly you can not control legitimately. Life is indeed short.

Unless you are just looking to bully your neighbor because they have bamboo, then you have bigger problems, obviously.

Get over it.

I can't control death, but I'm still trying hard to prevent it.

Anonymous wrote:The "fence" between my parents property and their neighbors is all bamboo. No idea whose side it is actually on. It's been there for years. Looks great and hasn't spread or taken over anything.

There are two kinds of bamboo.

If you don't keep that bamboo contained your neighbors will raise a stink about the foul odor.

The "fence" between my parents property and their neighbors is all bamboo. No idea whose side it is actually on. It's been there for years. Looks great and hasn't spread or taken over anything.

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Anonymous wrote:If your neighbors have bamboo and you don't want it. Dig a 3 ft down trench all around the fence and put in several layers of thick aluminum foil. That will stop it from spreading to your yard. If you have bamboo and want to get rid of it, you can't just whack it, to have to dig it up etc. it'll take about 3 years of digging up everything that comes up to clear your yard for good.

Aluminum foil? Not strong enough. Bamboo can grow through floor boards. Yes, dig down 3 feet, yes, put in a barrier, but that barrier has to be strong. We're debating between concrete and sheet metal, if our current efforts come to nothing. We've made great progress and there's no more bamboo growing in our yard but we're still battling culms.

Unfortunately, all the neighbors have to hate bamboo at the same time. Eradicating it is hard when a neighbor gets tired of fighting it and takes a year or two off.

Our neighbor's bamboo (they didn't plant it--a previous neighbor did) is now growing under their fence into our yard. Do you think 3 ft down is deep enough? Also, it would seem that sheet metal would be more resistant? Concrete could eventually crumble? Thanks for your thoughts.

If it is on your own property, and you can't afford to have it properly removed, then decide it is not an issue, or move.

If you can't afford to move, it is not an issue, is it?

I can't imagine beating my head against a wall about something that clearly you can not control legitimately. Life is indeed short.

Unless you are just looking to bully your neighbor because they have bamboo, then you have bigger problems, obviously.

Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Nice try.

Bamboo discussions, like bamboo itself, cannot be contained it any one thread. It will spread inexorably till every discussion becomes contaminated. You will try to kill it with fire, ban it, report it, but it will rise again, until it punctures your liver, spreading black bile everywhere.

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Very very nicely done. A perfect post. Congratulations. I bow before your superior humor.

Anonymous wrote:OP, go plant some of the spreading kind in your yard, and wait a few months, maybe a year. Then once it's taken over double or triple the space you ever imagined it could, and you have spent several years trying to remove it to no avail, then come back and tell us how crazy we are.

I managed to eradicate it from my yard, but it took me 5 years of hard effort. There's no easy way to be rid of it. And during that time, I couldn't expand my stone patio like I wanted to because I knew the bamboo would only pop up the stones because it's that strong. I never planted it - it invaded from outside my fence.

You have no clue what you are talking about.

I live in a rowhouse with a concrete backyard. I don't give a fig about bamboo one way or another. I just want people to stop talking about it on a thread that had a lot of comic potential, but was ruined by bamboo craziness.

A lot of fabrics marketed as bamboo are actually just rayon. True story!

My favorite pair of socks are made from bamboo. I've been wanting to talk about bamboo for ages - thanks, OP. I wish more clothes were made of bamboo.

I was wondering what BAMBOO was an acronym for

back when we were shopping for our first house and looking for fixer-uppers we went to an open house for a house that needed a lot of work. the home owners had written up a little narrative about their ownership of the house and how much they loved the home and cared for it. then they acknowledged that it needed a lot of cosmetic work but that they had spent too much time, money and energy on erradicating the bamboo. I guess they just wanted to make sure we knew that they weren't just sitting on their butts but engaged in an all out bamboo war.