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  • From: sanrico AT highdesert.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Bamboo question..(dumb)
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:12:19 +0000 (America/Los_Angeles)

Sure sounds like spreading, alright! I've always been fascinated by the uses
of
bamboo, and have seen a number of very informative programs on
home-and-garden TV
and in magazine articles where it's used not only for fencing (what's new?)
but
also for flooring, countertops...all kinds of things! And then there's the
well-worn - and much appreciated - back scratcher I keep in the drawer of my
desk!
Out here in the mid-Mojave, where the residences (abandoned and occupied) are
few
and far between, there is always the inevitable stand of dried-out,
dead-as-a-doornail bamboo, planted years ago as a windbreak, shade, or
whatever.
Did they think it would live without any water at all?
I love the photos of the bamboo 'forests', lush and green and reaching to the
sky. I suppose I should plant some, just in case a stray panda or two wanders
by!
I'm going to be very interested in following this thread - not using what's
freely (accent on the 'free') available to you as building material would be a
shame.
Has anyone seen the new black one? Looks like jewelry. And it could be, for
$95 a
pop!
Sandy

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:20:42 -0400, EarthNSky wrote:

>
> Oh my, I guess Ron is right, I AM getting Alzheimers.\
> It's been an ongoing project, and I am ready to stand up the timbers now
> and thought I would check....<sigh> I think it should be okay...I have
> searched online and while I haven't found a specific reference for what
> I want to do, it seems that after a month or more of being cut, that the
> likelihood of anything rooting in moist soil would be close to zip, but
> stranger things have happened.
> I'm pretty sure this is spreading...Robbie planted a 3 gallon pot of it
> 15 years ago off her garage and now it is spreading down the hill
> towards my place....it currently covers an area about 40x50, and it's
> been cut back a couple of times...I have full harvest
> priveleges<g>...nothing better than bamboo on someone's else's property
> that you can harvest at any time. Some of the canes are huge, too. Lee
> and a couple of her friends came up years ago and got some...Remember
> that Lee?? Are you still alive out there?
>
> Bev
>
> sanrico AT highdesert.com wrote:
> > Bev - I remember you asking this question a couple of weeks ago, but I
> > haven't
> > seen any responses. Hopefully there will be some this time - I'm waiting,
> > too!
> > There's spreading bamboo and there's clumping bamboo - you'll probably
> > need to
> > know which kind it is.
> > Sandy
>
> --
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
>
>
>
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