Will they clear bamboo?

[For the Love of Dirt]

I have looked at how to kill bamboo, and the method I’m going with will take a while, but it works. You basically just keep the shoots under control. As long as you don’t let them get to the leaf stage then eventually they rhizomes will expend their energy and die. It may take several years, but they only send up shoots in the spring, and if the pigs will help to at least dig some up, then it’s a lot less work for me. Once we clear the garden area and the pigs have had their fun then I will be following them with sheet mulching. We may have to garden somewhere else on the property for a little while, but we already tried digging it up with a bobcat and the roots are so tight it didn’t do much good.