The Secret to Killing Bamboo | NO Chemicals or Machines 

I want to watch more videos with Darrell! Can you interview him for more advice on homesteading?

The book of bamboo is sold out . Will there be more copies available?

​@@soulmist2163 Released a new video with him today on that topic!

@@NaturesAlwaysRight Why do we have to destroy some thing if you can control it. Dig a trench along the line that you don't want Bamboo network to cross. It should be 1' wide and 2' deep. Fill 3/4 depth with Saw dust or wood chips Bamboo doesn't like. Bamboo doesn't like the wood with oil in it. Teak, Cedar, Pine etc would do. That would stop it that line. You can also try soaking woodchips in different type of oils. But the fundamental idea is same. On the other hand, do you want to make the Bamboo resettle in another area? Make it to take a little stroll. Use the same Technique, but fill it with Rice Husk. All the shoots will go in that direction.

How to deql wt bamboo? Get a panda 🐼 🙄 🤪

I had the same thought, my toxic trait is now I want a bamboo problem just to put this to the test.

lol, i have only 2 bamboo in my garden ... but i watched all the video ...pfffff

I'm just playing minecraft man

Have you taken a look at "How to make cleaning fluid"? Highly recommended.

This is why I love RU-vid.. I’m off to learn about how to start a black soldier fly larvae colony. Am i ever going to do anything with it or speak of it? probably not it’s Cool tho

So I see you’ve fought in the bamboo wars to?

1st year in, cut down a stand of about 250 pieces 3” diameter, it’s already sending shoots out all over the lawn.

Let it regrow. Make ladders etc etc etc out of it....

Brush cutter. Any big open canes.....salt down the tubes. Mix with an oil so the residual stays. Killing the roots.

A small bamboo stand takes more chainsaw chains than you can possibly imagine before you start

Thanks Darrell!

I love you Darrell

What’s so good about it Besides the obvious

If I can't eat it,I don't grow it!

I LOVE the idea about putting pasture around bamboo patches to control the spread, or using water as a boundary.

Grabbed with what? Attached to a bulldozer?

@@rayerscarpensael2300 I actually hired a neighbor of mine to use his tractor to pull it all out, but he couldn’t get it to work. So I did it with elbow grease and a shovel. After cutting them at 5’ height, I let the rhizomes weaken for a week, then went after them one shoot at a time. The rhizomes gave way as I pulled and pushed each individual shoot. It was much easier than I thought it would be, but don’t get me wrong, it was WORK. Once I got the area cleared, all I needed to do was plant grass seed and keep it mowed. I didn’t want any rhizomes even THINKING about making a comeback.

@@larshowen3319 did the same thing, pulled out hundreds of intertwined fat rizomes some 10 yards long, been doing this for over a year, less and less is coming up but my my what an exhausting job, sometimes I fear the bambou will win, a plot of giant skyhigh trees on a 50 x 50 plot that i don t want to extend.

@larshowen3319 how long ago did you finish removing the bamboo and roots? Can you be sure it's not sleeping?

soft soil, no rocks or large trees may work, but not here all the roots of each one tie into each other only a axe works

When the windd blow, you can hear them singing in Chinese.

@@jxmai7687 thats hilarious

I once found a plant I've never seen before in a forest and it reminded me of salad, but it felt like velvet. I took one of the plants home and it grew within a year to a flower as big as a sunflower with a cluster of flowers around the stem similarly to a corn with all its seeds. Next year, I saw the same flower in my entire neighbourhood... Even a decade later, it was still coming back!

Dude this just killed me. Love it 😎

@@edi9892 sound like mullein - a useful plant

I can see why your neighbor planted the bamboo. You seem like a really wonderful neighbor.......

It is probably not real bamboo then, it is likely one of the plants that resembles bamboo or is called bamboo but not actually it. (such as horsetail or lucky bamboo or bamboo palm.)

For those types of plants it generally pays to put them into a underground concrete planter. it makes it much easier to control the growth. properly done, it will stop the rhizome spread for decades. this is especially important in small lawns. rhizomes will otherwise quickly disrespect property boundaries. and if you're neighbour applies the right kind of herbizid it will travel back through the rhizomes. neighbour facility management, let some strictly forbidden neophyte grow (Fallopia japonica, reason: tends to overgrow local flora used for erosion protection, while not providing sufficient erosion protection himself, costs taxpayer million a year. and large parts of the country are aquifer protection zones, where you can't use herbicides). i did eradicate it with the appropriate herbicide. now he has a big patch of nothing, as the neophyte had overgrown and killed the previous local flora. he actually got lucky the local authorities are very laz on enforcement. the fines are rather hefty. remarks: this was a new contract, if i had been there earlier, i would have warned them. and this was a low rent apartment property, so not the place which can afford to pay facility management to spend many hours over many years to deal with it. hence to use of herbicides. technically i would have been to other parties costs to carry, but in practice, this tends to end up in drawn out court battles, as people rarely own up to their mistakes.

It took me 7 years to kill my Japanese knotweed this way.

I started bamboo from seed, a clumping type. After 20 years the entire clump is less than 4ft across. You just have to do a little research for clumping types.

Jup, same issue with bramble. Terrible stuff, poison like Roundup/Glyphosate won't even kill it.

so would this work on acacias like the black and silver waddles?

@@topline2554 Absolutely! That is if you’re referencing the containment method of using a thick plastic wall beneath the ground. But if you’re planning on just cutting it back then you will have to do this every year when the new growth begins.

@@topline2554 You can bury a metal tub that size or build one and lie it with thick placstic and use the dug out soil to fill the tub then plant the bamboo in the tub.

​@@danielebrparish4271 why use metal tub if you gona line it with plastic anyway?

@@spacesnake7115 When you get to my age(69 almost 70) you will wish that the only bamboo was in thick pots or metal bathtubs and not pushing its runners into the surrounding forest. This video increases my hope that I can conquer the stuff before I die 🙂 Good luck whatever you decide

Ive seen the rizhomes going out the soil and one video even perforating the paviment..

😁🏆

Dang right if you are around it for years you feel bamboozled. It sleeps and creeps and boom! Now it's knocking on your door and selling you Rainbow vacuum cleaners!

Yea bamboo poles are pretty useful. Strong and lightweight.

And it is the easiest thing to cut, easier than any wood :D

What uses on a farm ?

@@theMcWOPPER By keeping a controlled patch of bamboo, one has a constant supply of free, lightweight, rot resistant, and strong material with a thousand uses. For example, one can stake tomatoes or build a trellis or arbor. One can build pens, cages, fences, or even an out building. Don’t forget bamboo makes a perfect fishing pole! If you char bamboo a bit, it becomes even more rot resistant. Do a Google search of bamboo structures for ideas.

I’m going through the exact same thing, I’ve been back here for six months. The fence lines had not been maintained for 36 years! The bamboo was thirty feet tall and had expanded its footprint by twenty feet wide and along a 250 ft. Section along the rear property line. I’m just now getting down to the roots and trying to build new fence over it.!!!

Im only 46 but Ive been saying for years the greatest tragedy in life is an old man dying and taking with him a wealth of knowledge.

Yep. The leaves are the solar panels that can produce energy for the plant. Make it deplete its batteries building the infrastructure for the panels, then take it all away.

@@darrellluck7230beautifully explained and worded. I love when people explain things like this and also the man in the video - easy, simple but I don’t feel like I’m being talked down to or like an adult talking to a first grader 😘😍

That's the dream.

What do you find appealing about it?

@Scott It's EXTREME usefulness....

Have 70 year old stuff on my grandpas place in MS

My mom has a yard full of it and there's so many cool things you can make with it 😊

DeepL has done a very good job.

It works very well. I wouldn't have known if you didn't mention it.

@@--_DJ_-- Damn! I shouldn't have mentioned Deepl, you'd have thought I spoke English perfectly ! (Joke inside... and Deepl too 😄 )

I guess deepl translates better than most of the commenters on youtube who post in their own language.

DeepL is the goat

You are right about that - the rhizomes decompose VERY slowly.

You can clear them and plant the garden On Top of the rhizomes. I've done this excessively more than once. Then just break off the new shoots that come up randomly in the garden. Just keep breaking off the new shoots as they come up and the root system will die eventually and you can grow a garden in the meantime. You can also just mow over the old patch regularly if there's grass where the old bamboo patch used to be.

@@brianwnc8168 You can't grow anything on top of the rhizomes and stumps of an established bamboo stand, you'll need to remove them! The rhizomes and the remainig stumps are too dense and close to each other! I guess what you mean is an adjacent area that an established bamboo stand tries to colonize by sending new rhizomes into it. It's true that at this point the rhizomes and the new shoots popping up are still sparse so that you can grow things on this area. But once a bamboo stand is established and forms a thick thicket you'll need to remove the stumps and rhizomes before you can grow anything!

@@neonice I agree that the cane (referred to as a culm) can photosynthesize if it is green (some are yellow), but the bulk of the energy to build a culm is coming from the rhizome system. The reason this method works is because it rapidly depletes the stored energy. Also, as the shoot is reaching skyward, it is covered by sheathing for protection, which delays photosynthesis occurring in the culm.

@@neonice I half-agree. Sure the green stem can to some extent photosynthetize, but not enough to fully replenish the energy stored in the rhizome system, so as long as you are persistent and don't wait too long before cutting down the new shoot, the rhizome will eventually die. Regarding the stumps, you'll need to cut them the closest to soil surface if your goal is to kill an established stand of bamboo, otherwise the stem will rapidly grows at the nodal rings new branches and leaves...anyway, it's true that killing or keeping under control bamboo requires work and diligence! Running bamboos species aren't for everybody! People who just want a nice backyard to enjoy their coffee outside without having to spend much time and effort to take care of it should think twice before planting running bamboos! Or they will need to do it right with a very well design, good quality, durable rizhome barrier!

U are hilarious!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

Your welcome

We should focus on native indigenous plants and nurturing sustainable ecosystems. My drought-riven community not in the US is overwhelmed by the dangerous and toxic Agave americana, or century plant.

I bought a house with it already planted and had no idea about the maintenance side of it, or that it would spread. I'm going to try this method to eradicate 🤞 The previous owners also planted a couple of other bamboo plants but they look to be the clumping variety.

@@banksiasong who is we?

funny thing is that there is a japanese farmer, of the book 'sowing seeds' says we're pretty much at the point where erosion is so out of control that we might as well plant what grows aka "invasive". The earth did survive several extinctions after all. this guy on this video also mentions that the US used to have a lot of bamboo in another video. There is actually a story of a tribe in south america that had dense bamboo boundaries that the spanish had a hard time cutting through.

Du muss Rinde entfernen. Zirka 1 m rund. Und kontrolieren monatlich. Nach 2 Jahren trocknet ganze Baum aus. Inzwischen auch Wurzeln kontrolieren. Und kleine entfernen.

I’m in the United States, North Carolina, and also battle ailanthus altissima regularly. Cheers to misery from across the pond!

Oh shoot. It doesn't work perfectly for erosion either because grass won't grow well with all the leaves. Cutting it or wounding it does something. Pushing it over didn't work too well. I tried some jackass moves with a riding lawnmower. Nearly got thrown off and destroyed my hood on it. It's like a joke that you laugh at but it's a slow nasty invader. It's susceptible to cutting and chemicals. Anything to screw up the pH.

@@marshmower sawzall with a 14” demo blade, pointed straight down. Start at one edge of the roots and cut Lin straight lines, then across them. Cut the roots into chunks, then pull them out by hand. Use a pitchfork to turn over all the dirt, and find roots you missed when cutting up the big mass.

Once he snuffs it who controls it? It.dpread and spread idiot he be! Hello I'm seventy and have fought bamboo for half of that time . When I think we are on top of it some idiot plants it and off it goes again destroying nature.

anything green does indeed feed

That's probably why this process takes a few years to kill off the bamboo. It's still pulling in some energy, just not enough to let it live through multiple failures.

He did mention "it could take 3years or longer"

Yeah. I'm dealing with it now. The bamboo in my yard is in a fire zone on a hill. Its a complete nightmare but I have to deal with it so I don't get fined by the FD. It sucks

I do just that and lots of other things too. Bamboo has SO MANY uses!

It grows so fast it will take over your yard.

I don't see why not. It's just like wood chips.

@@darrellluck7230 Thanks.

Most chippers clog on bamboo. Tends to break into long strings. Found the drum type works far better than disc type chippers. Main criteria is adjustable blades and set them to just clear the anvil.

@@paradiselost9946 Really appreciate the reply.

@@paradiselost9946 I never found what you state to be true. Chipped tons of dead canes year after year, which were then used to line the walking paths that had been created in the grove. Nice uniform chips, no problems feeding the chipper or spreading the chips either.

Agreed luv

But bulldozing is so much fun

@@aladrasullivan9018 Cringeeeeeeeee

@@neonice Well, he’s correct about cutting it down *before* it puts out leaves. Bamboo is a grass, and when grazing animals upon grass, grass kill happens when animals are put back onto previously grazed grassland before it has had time enough to put out some grass blades and replenish the stored energy in its roots. Grass can *definitely* be killed that way!

​@@tumblebugspaceKnew bamboo was a type of grass (funny thing, that!) but didn't think killing grass in that fashion was a thing Now that I know it, I may put it in practice in my garden! Darn grass gets all over my roses and once it's settled in it's hell to root it out without ravaging the rose's roots in the process.

Google Arundinaria gigantea or Canebreak bamboo. That's what you want for fishing poles in the south.

@Marcblur Thank you. We would use them for serf fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Yes, everything is shared. If a grove was started from a single plant, then they are ALL connected.

It needs a lot of water

It chokes everything else out.

@@devswell6538 in most places of my country there is water and nutrients, but it is scattered through the land, so you would see small patches of green and then big empty space between. I wonder if this could help cover the whole place in green.

Apparently it is out of print and now a rare book, with a sky-high price to match. Such a shame. Great book!

waiting years? really

@@mattw5840 waiting is cheap last time I checked

I was wondering about that too.

As knotweed does not get as high, I cut off the leaves and leave the stem. During the season the new leaves get smaller and smaller.

@@andrewharrison1194 Works with any plant really. If it can't photosynthesize then it has to use stored energy and eventually it just runs out and dies

income? Even though you can eat the shoots and make a lot out of the stems, I don't know anyone who'd buy it here.

its raw material used to make all kinds of stuff from spoons to floors, even homes. It all depends on what you need.

@@pabloenriquechavesmonsalve4786 As said, I can think of some uses, but not of potential customers for the raw material...

@@geneeditor9545 If anybody wants to get rid of it, do so. All depends on each individual needs but If you can or know a Crafter of Bambu and think you can make an extra income do so. Thats all.

Madness after a few years the spring will be choked with this weed and it will spread via the water course Wombats !

Lol wrong having been at war with it half my life fire only spreads it and sends the roots deeper!

Sounds like you do not know what the f you are talking about.

Could be clumping bamboo, rather than running bamboo. We have clumping bamboo in our yard - very well behaved.

@@GratefulThird I'm no bamboo expert. I grew up with it and I thought it was great. We could build all kinds of things out of it. I grew up where imagination ran rampant and was encouraged. That doesn't exist anymore.

@@walkfaster Yes, probably, but I killed the bamboo and that's all I care about.

What was the magical chemical that eventually killed it

@@netmana No one knows! Bleach, vinegar, Roundup, dish soap, you name it! Also (as I wrote earlier) it may be that by removing the leaves and preventing photosynthesis, that's what killed it.

what an idiot

Exactly! Chinese timber, it’s worth good $, the right species anyway. I’d love to have 10 acres or so of it, plus it’s beautiful ✌️🇺🇸

Honey suckle won't destroy the foundation of your house like bamboo will, though.

There are Asian mountain bamboos that should grow in zone 4. Nurseries should list minimum temps