Use some pvc pipe cleaner/primer on it! It has an almost instant cooling effect on it! Not the purple primer of course... There are some side effects though...like a screaming headache 10 minutes after applying the primer it really does stop the itching and burning Disclaimer: I do not recommend the use of pvc primer as a topical ointment...often
If the bamboo you're talking about is what I think it is, it's Japanese Knotwood. Around here we've been calling it "yardaday" as long as I can remember, because it grows a "yard a day", damm near impossible to get rid of.
Probably is. I will look it up. I see it along roadways everywhere now. We had a tractor scrape it down to get the roots out, but they still manage to sprout.
Only effective control methods, besides very nasty poison, is to shade the stuff out or layer barriers over it. I had some growing and dug out roots 3' deep, covered with landscape fabric, sand, more landscape fabric, and then pea gravel. It hasn't come back but I don't dare ever uncover that area again. Fortunately it is beside the garage so I don't need anything to grow there anyway. Funny thing is that it only started to grow after I cut down a 5' tall cedar. It wasn't even very wide but cast deep enough shade that the JK wouldn't grow . Once the cedar was cut down the nasty stuff started growing up immediately. That stuff really does grow very fast - you can almost see it grow! If it is Japanese Knotweed, the roots are very deep so just scraping them down doesn't do much besides slow it down. Pieces of root can stay viable for years too. Bad stuff.
We've been battling a patch on the property for over 3 decades. And a dozen shoots come up every year. We pull them and hope to get the deep roots, sometimes we do and sometimes we don't.
