Two days and two skips later, we’d removed all the bamboo from across the entire garden
There’s a reason why “bamboo removal” has suddenly become a common Google search term… it’s an incredibly resilient plant that will take over your garden and cause major issues down the line.
A recent customer planted 6 small bamboo roots 10 years ago after a trip to China; fast forward to today and the bamboo is 12 feet tall with a root network that has spread over 16 feet across the lawn, with bamboo shoots popping up in random places all over the lawn and trying to make its way into the drains and footings. She knew she had a major issue developing if she didn’t deal with it soon, so she contacted me to help her with my mini digger-powered bamboo removal service!
Bamboo removal step 1: removing the bamboo shoots
At 12 feet tall, 40 feet long, and 3 feet deep, this was some very well-established bamboo! You’d never manage to dig this out by hand – even my mini digger was struggling at times, but luckily my “ripper tooth” bucket was able to rip through the root and ground in front of it so we could dig it out.
Once removed, we loaded it into wheelbarrows and dumped it into a skip to be taken away. The skip was completely full by the end of the day!
Bamboo removal step 2: digging out contaminated turf and the rhizome root network
With bamboo removal, you can’t just stop at pulling out the main shoots and root. If you leave any of the “rhizomes” in the ground, it’ll grow back. The rhizome are the long and thin roots that grow outwards away from the bamboo, usually right under your turf or less than 10cm under the ground. Bamboo can regrow from any of this left in the ground, so while it might seem dramatic, in some cases (like this one), we have to scrape up the surrounding turf to expose the rhizomes and then pull them out. Then we dig over the ground using a riddle and rake bucket to filter the soil for any remaining bamboo rhizomes, plucking them out as we go for disposal (along with any rocks and rubble we find).
Bamboo removal step 3: raking and fine-raking the soil to prepare for new turf
Once we’re confident all the bamboo is out of the ground, we then rake and fine-rake the soil to prepare it for new turf to go down.
The bamboo rhizomes in this garden had grown over 16 feet under the turf, so quite a big area had to be dug up and turned over to ensure it would never come back. It looks a lot, but turf is cheap and we left the garden ready for the new turf to go straight down. This is certainly a much better option than ignoring the bamboo problem and having it damage more of your garden, your drains, your footings, and those of your neighbours!
Bamboo removal finished!
So there you have it – a serious bamboo removal issue sorted in just two days with my mini digger and driver hire service. You don’t need to pay thousands and thousands of pounds to “bamboo removal specialists”, just contact me to discuss getting rid of your bamboo problems. The sooner you act, the better. We had to dig up the turf over 16 feet away from the bamboo in this case because that’s how far the bamboo rhizomes had spread; if the customer had dealt with the issue sooner, less turf would have needed to come up, so don’t delay, contact me today to get started!
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