Planting bamboo in your yard is akin to making your neighbor's life miserable. This highly invasive plant will keep spreading year after year, smothering native plants around it. Bamboo is an allelopathic plant, meaning it produces its own natural herbicides that kill off other vegetation, allowing it to take over. There is really no good way to mitigate bamboo, and eradicating it is time-consuming and expensive, so it's best to avoid planting it altogether.