I thought it was dead, but no.

[blume357]

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MaxMan said:
We are on on well and septic, very careful about what goes into the soil.

Now that made me laugh....

Me too, I was trying to come up with an off color joke for it....

 

[jav]

We have a yucca for years it's a hard plant to kill ours us still alive and there is no water going to it

 

[KIR]

If you ever do figure out how to kill the damn things, please share. I have some in my yard that have spread, and they are impossible to kill. I have even gone so far as straight round-up with a few drops of dish soap on the cut roots.

Putting dish soap on plants is used for keeping bugs away from the plants.

 

[Larryburford]

We have a wild type that grows her in South Arkansas and North Louisiana that has thinner leaves and grows low to the ground. The old people call it bear grass. The settlers used the leaves to tie up meat in their smoke houses.

 

[Bob Wright]

Another name for that plant is
"Spanish Bayonet."

Bob Wright

 

[JMD101]

Diesel fuel and rock salt mixed will kill almost anything including bamboo. I have been at war with bamboo since I bought my house 25 years ago. The woman who had the place before me was a horticultural nightmare. Nice landscaping is one thing but she took it to an extreme.

and it wont kill you.

 

[eveled]

My cure has always been to cut it off at ground level and mow over it weekly. Or whenever I mow the grass. It seems to work on everything

It's a shame bamboo is so invasive. It's a very useful plant. The shoots are edible and the poles are useful and rot resistant.

We have Japanese Rag weed around, it sort of resembles bamboo, hard to kill and no redeeming qualities. Sigh.

I have 2 Chestnut trees that refuse to die. They send up a new tree that gets killed by the blight. Every 5 years or so. There is always a new shoot to take its place.

Point being that one shoot is able to keep the root alive. Those trees are probably 200 years old?

If you stop the new shoots from sustaining the roots eventually everything dies.