Perhaps this is not the place to come to find out how to kill something,
but the bamboo in my back yard has just about got me buffaloed.
When I bought this house 22 years ago, the previous owner had planted a
small clump of bamboo near the corner of the pool. We cut it down, dug
it up, poured gasoline on it (sorry! that was one suggestion) and did
just about everything we could think of to get rid of it.
Every year it comes up again. It has migrated about 20 feet (moving
east) in 22 years and is now growing all around my Crape Myrtle. When I
cut it down, it leaves pungee sticks in the yard.
I can only use so many fishing poles. Any suggestions on how to get rid
of it short of major excavation?