Can I run my 'Getting rid of the bamboo' plan past you?

[Jinnypint]

The garden of the house we moved into has bamboo. It wasn't visible when we viewed. Must have been cut down and pots put over the area. Now it's springing up and we want rid of it.

It's the invasive one not the clumping type. The most badly affected area is about 6ft x 10ft and there's now a number of 4ft high bamboo bushes and others springing up and they're not far from the house.

Here's the plan:
Chop the bamboo to ground level and dig out as much of the rhizomes as possible.

Spray on Roundup Tree Stump Killer. I'm aware this is nasty stuff and contains gluphosate.

Cover with cardboard and then plastic sheeting and put weighted pots on top and leave the bamboo to die, checking on it in the spring and maybe reapplying the Stump Killer. The coverings are to prevent my cat coming into contact with it, as well as encourahing the bamboo to die.

I' ve always been anti weedkiller and care about wildlife but boiling water and salt just isn't up to the job.

Will this work? Any guidance welcomed.

Bamboo is such a pain, it's a pity you can't buy Agent Orange at B&Q. Good luck!

Keep doing what you suggest and it will eventually die off yes.

Not bamboo but I am in year 2 of my eliminate snowberry campaign and have taken a very similar route to you.

Started by cutting everything back and applying SBK root killer to the remaining stumps. Then covered the area with membrane.

Anything sneaking out the side gets glyphosate.

This year I refixed the membrane and there were a few rogue stalks coming through that got glyphosate. However it seems enfeebled compared to the year before.

I have my fingers crossed for next year.

What I did, when three or four bamboo 'sticks' appeared from a neighbours garden, almost overnight at about four feet with a diameter of almost an inch😱was to cut down to about two feet, (i wanted to be able to see the effect) and I poured weedkiller into the 'stick'. At each 'joint' on the 'stick' there is a membrane so I had to poke a thin rod down the centre to break this to allow the weedkiller to flowed down to the roots. It seemed to work.

Apologies for the non-botanical terms of 'stick' and 'joint'.

Pouring neat weedkiller down the stick is my DM's method for Japanese knotweed.

I can confirm it works.

Thanks for all your posts. Your experiences are encouraging.

You might also need to check whether your neighbours have it and are removing it as well.

It’s in my neighbour’s garden although they didn’t plant it and it’s in ours too now. We’ve had to get part of our garden dug up by a mini digger to get deep down to the roots - annoying costly anti social plant