Bamboo Shield - 75 feet Long x 36 inch x 100 mil - Bamboo Root Barrier/Water Barrier

Used this after we excavated 40 year old bamboo from our yard to protect us from our neighbors who did not completely excavate their side. It has worked very well. We have been bamboo free for four (4) years. No intrusion from neighboring yard

This is a nice quality barrier for the price and comes with decent directions which make it clear to not place this vertically. The hardest part is digging the trench for it but I managed alright. If you're placing this in a straight line I recommend unrolling it and then re-rolling it up the opposite way so as to remove the curl (this is kind of tough to do). At the very least I'd recommend laying it out flat for a while with some weight on it to make installation easier. If you're using it for a circle trench then you shouldn't have to worry about that even though it will probably help in that case, too.

The product probably works wonderfully and is high quality. But if you've got rocky soil and not enough space to use a trencher, it's a challenge to dig a 22" deep trench for any distance. But it's also hard to make it angle 10 degrees like the instructions indicate, and if you're going around a corner or tight curve it's impossible to maintain an angle. Don't know how much this will really matter.

This is a tough product, very durable. I think it will do the job well! The hardest part was digging the 70’ long 22” deep trench around our bamboo. I spliced the ends together with (2) 1/8” x 1” bars drilled about 5” o.c. Which I did (2) places. I believe I used #10 machine screws with lock washers and nuts, all stainless steel.

I bought this material to block intrusive two Sabal Palm root systems. I replaced older landscape plantings with caladiums last May. The caladiums flourished until September when they started to fail. I had excavated some of the palm trees roots but obviously not enough. The roots had grown under the mulch and over the bulbs causing the bulbs not to be able to send new growth upwards. The palms were planted in 1981 and are about 20-25 feet tall. I have just about finished cutting and digging out roots down to an 18" depth and out up to 6 ft from base of trees - no small feat. I plan to cut the Bamboo shield to put around the trunks about 12" off the trunk at a depth of 18". Once that is done I will replant about 100+ caladium bulbs that I dug up and hope they grow. The palm tree roots appear to grow out and down for the most part so I hope the Bamboo shield works to keep the roots deep under ground. Not sure if cutting all this tree root matting will damage the trees but they are larger than I would like so if I lose them I won't be too upset.

I bought a 50' length to put in a trench between my house and my neighbors super-invasive Japanese knotweed and so far it seems to be doing the trick of keeping the rhizomes from spreading back into my yard and reinfesting. As a bonus the roll I ordered ended up being about 15' longer than what I paid for, so it's good to know the company isn't skimping.

My bamboos have been thwarted. Time will tell if they manage to escape their plasticky containment device, but so far, so good...

This stuff is a really nice, thick plastic (about 1/16"). It's odd to say much about a roll of plastic but this struck me as a quality product. There was also a bit more on the roll than advertised so you can buy the needed length and not worry about coming up short. Do think about what it wall take to dig a 22" deep 15' long trench, though. It took me about 7 hours with a shovel.