Bamboo Shield - 125 feet Long x 24 inch x 60 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 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.

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 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.

Those plants we love, like yarrow. The leaves are so delicate, but the rhizome is vicious at taking over the garden so I fell across this to keep the yarrow in it's small area.It's only year one, but so far, it's doing the job it's supposed to do. Happily. And I only wish I'd done it to the mint too..(but too late and we live in an area where mint dies in fall till late spring.)

My neighbors have Bamboo growing in their yard and it was trying/succeeding to spread into my backyard. For two years I trimmed it back and pulled out roots and swore a lot.Last year I installed this bamboo shield (no small feet/swore a lot) and so far so good.

I have been buying products from Lewis Bamboo since 2012. The barrier works well at protecting one's yard from "invasion " I have found it thick and durable. The issue is not the barrier but the installation most times. I have had rhizones jump the barrier (grow up outside the barrier) in a few places but it was due to how the barrier was installed (tree root in the path of the barrier, etc ) that caused the barrier not to be as secure. I simply checked the area outside the barrier twice a year and could easily cut the rhizomes and stop to growth. The bamboo was relatively easy to maintain with good installation of a great barrier. Lewis Bamboo was great in providing a lot of instruction on installing bamboo.Very pleased with my investment in a living fence