Unrestricted bamboo

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Our new garden has a clump of bamboo. It wasn't contained at all when it was planted, and in the last couple of weeks bits of it have been shooting up as far as 5m away from the original clump. We do rather like it, and it was fine for the first 6 months we lived here, when it didn't try and escape, but I don't want to live in a jungle of it. Is it feasible to keep on top of killing the random bits all the time, or should we just remove it and put in something with better manners?

Kill it. It's taken 3 years to eradicate here. Kill it.

Kill it with fire.

I'm afraid they're right. Dig it out and kill it to death.

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Dig it up.
Set fire to it.
Move house.

Probably all three.

I have heard, but haven't tried it myself, that you can plant it in a buried bath tub to contain it. Perhaps worth a try if you want to keep some, and then you can work on killing the rest?

A buried bathtub will NOT work.
Bamboo is incredibly strong and will put on underground growth for years before shoots appear away from the main plant.
By then it's too late.