Garden Guy
These products help deal with bamboo
buster
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Benefits
- Effectively controls a wide range of weeds down to the roots.
- Quick knockdown, non selective, systemic weedkiller.
- No soil residue so will not harm neighbouring plants. Planting and seeding can be safely carried out soon after treatment
- Ideal for killing weeds around established trees and shrubs.
- Buster is a glufosinate weedkiller and kills many weeds that glyphosate products are less effective on.
invade gel / no weeds gel
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Benefits
- Controls hardy weeds with systemic action that kills down to the roots.
- Ready to use, with integral brush to allow accurate application.
- Safe in the soil, will not harm neighbouring plants.
- Effectively controls stumps & cut weeds.
- Stops re-sprouting.
stick spray
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Benefits
- Contains sticker spreader to improve performance of spray mixes.
- Mixes easily.
- Non toxic.
- For addition to herbicide, insecticide or fungicide sprays.
bamboo
Bamboo can be an attractive garden plant but it rapidly forms dense clumps that shade out and exclude other plants. It will easily invade scrub, urban areas, forest margins and gardens.
HOW TO CONTROL BAMBOO
To Get Rid of Bamboo follow these steps:
- Bamboo is a difficult weed to get rid of and there are no magic bullets.
- Cut the bamboo down as far as you can, and if possible dig out the root mass trying not to leave any rhizomes which would sprout again. Take the roots to the transfer station for disposal. You can mulch the leaves.
- If you can’t dig the roots out, wait for new growth to 50-60cm tall and paint new growth liberally with INVADEGEL/NO WEEDS GEL or spray with BUSTER plus STICK SPRAY. It is likely that you will have to repeat this treatment 5 or 6 times as it will continue to re-sprout.
- Check for new sprouting of any rhizomes and treat each of these as they appear.
About
There are several species of bamboo in New Zealand, the Arrow bamboo being the most weedy. They are medium sized, clump forming, perennials of the grass family. It can be difficult to control bamboo once it has become established.
Did you know
A similar looking plant weed that might be found in gardens is the Giant Reed (Arundo donax), also known as elephant grass or bamboo grass. It tends to be found near water. Similar control methods as for bamboo will control giant reed.
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