Bamboo removal - how far to go?

Hi everyone

New here but suspect I’ll be here regularly!

I’ve recently moved into a house with a garden full of running bamboo (approx 10 years growth) and have spent the last few weeks cutting it down and digging it out.

I’ve made good progress but my question is how far I need to go? I’ve removed 95% of the rhizomes but the remaining ones are hard to get as they run under paving, so I’d need to take the paving up to get to them. I’ve severed both ends and applied glusophate to those stumps - is that likely to be enough?

Then as well as the rhizomes there are the roots… ie the roots which come off the rhizomes. It’s going to be very hard to get all of these as they are tiny and there are thousands of them, so even if I try to remove them all I’m sure I’ll miss some. Can bamboo grow from the roots or does it need a rhizome to survive?

Essentially trying to work out whether I can now cover it in soil and plant something new or whether I need to keep going…

Appreciate bamboo is a bit of a specialist topic but thought I’d try my luck!

Thanks in advance

Diagram to show what I mean by rhizome / root:

 

@03carrd
As far as I know you don't need to worry about the small roots, I didn't have any regrowth after I removed a bamboo a couple of years ago. I would try and get all the rhizome out, although regrowth is likely to be easy to deal with. As for glyphosate on the rhizomes don't know; glyphosate is most effective when plants are actively growing; so a rhizome with both ends severed might not be affected.

 

Thanks for your reply. Great news that you haven't had any regrowth from the small roots.

I am going to really struggle to get the remaining rhizomes out as they are running under patio/path - they are going from the flower bed where they were initially planted, under a path and up again in the lawn. I've cut the rhizomes back as far as I can but to get any more I would have to take up the patio... so I think I'll try my luck if you say regrowth is likely to be easy to deal with.

If the rhizomes do grow again, will they grow upwards before they start to develop a new underground network? I'm just concerned that by the time they poke through the lawn again they may have established quite a heavy system underground again?

 

@03carrd

I think that the bamboos priority would be to get a shoot up into the sunlight before it begins to grow much underground.
I would be inclined to leave the remaining rhizomes and see if they start to grow again, if they do then glyphosate would be the easiest answer.