Bought and moved into house in June last year. Garden is low maintenance, bit of decking immediately against the house and then a load of large gravel stones with paving slabs to back gate slightly off centre.
Ive spent a past weekend and good Friday painting my fence. To paint one side I had to pull up some weeds. At this point I noted one of them is a stubborn bamboo type plant. It has grown along the fence line and there is growth right against my back wall. Additionally a small shoot managed to piece the fabric under my decking and potentially it has travesered under half my decking to the paving slabs where there was a small shoot.
It appears past owners were aware of this plant as when painting fence there is a cut off very thick bamboo stump halfway along the fence, the base boards around it were rotten as it had broken through but was quite well hidden. This cut off end looks dead - assume they used stump killer.
I have panicked and looked up Japanese knotweed but fortunately this doesn't look like that. However with the current isolation I keep letting this consume my mind and am worrying how I'm going to manage it and stop it spreading over literally the whole garden or impact the neighbours who could ask me to fix/sort out. Also worried about the fact it appears to grow into/against my back wall and if it could ruin the foundations.
Any advice on how best to manage? Brief Internet research suggests just cutting down and then spraying any leafy growth with glysophate. Will this eventually kill it off or will I just have to fight with it year on year.
I suppose its easy enough to hide in the event I want to sell as I feel this is what previous owners did to me.