Bamboo Can Invade Your House

I once watched this program about a guy that grew it in an area for wood harvesting and food, and kept it in check by digging a 1 meter deep trench around the area. The trench light pruned the root system from reaching his property. I thought it was pretty clever.

We have bamboo and it hardly grows. We bought it to use as potential 'building material' (to support trees and such). We bought it at a bamboo farm where they had many different species and sizes. On the farm was irrigation everywhere and even so they struggled to keep everything wet. Because as it turns out, bamboo will not grow without daily (!) getting water. It will actually rather quickly die. And indeed, the bamboo that we planted barely seems to stay alive. Even though we have some drip irrigation there.

So I would search for ways to cut the water supply to the bamboo shown in the article.

Makes the bittersweet we're always battling back seem pretty moderate in comparison. Glad the Japanese knotweed is on the far edge of the property, on the other side of the driveway. It may get there eventually, but not until well after the house isn't my problem anymore.

Very keen on bamboo in our garden but this article is putting me off. curious if anyone on HN has experience of containing bamboo e.g: digging a trench and pouring concrete to contain it. How deep would we need to go?

Similar with Japanese Knotweed. And termites. And quite a few other things.