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Post by bandeaurouge on Aug 8, 2024 16:28:59 GMT
I live in the dreary snow belt, no one selling fresh bamboo locally. Just the standard crap you find for plant stakes at home depot or walmart.
Went looking online for green bamboo, but all i am finding is labelled as "fully air dried", "heat cured", "low moisture content to prevent rotting", and so forth.
Is there a good online place to get actual fresh cut green bamboo?
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Post by mrstabby on Aug 9, 2024 7:51:16 GMT
Yeah, that's not really a thing in the west. It also does not stay soft for very long (have only had direct contact with grassy type bamboo though), so it would need to be used within days of cutting, and the shoots would need to be young, which is not when they are harvested for the uses it has in the west (building materials and such the older and harder it is the better). The species of bamboo also matters, some are harder than others and are very likely to damage the edge even when green. With through hardened it will dull the edge very quickly and with edge hardened you are pretty likely to fracture the edge. Cut bamboo at your own risk keeping in mind damage is highly likely either way.
You would need too grow it yourself and the cutting would be limited too the growth phase. My tip though: Don't. Bamboo can take over large swaths of land very quicklly and the only way to get rid of it is to dig it all up. It can also break through concrete barriers.
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 9, 2024 15:13:45 GMT
You would need too grow it yourself and the cutting would be limited too the growth phase. My tip though: Don't. Bamboo can take over large swaths of land very quicklly and the only way to get rid of it is to dig it all up. It can also break through concrete barriers. I vehemently disagree with you. Bamboo is good. Plant it everywhere not being used for some other useful crop 1 and especially in all those misspent areas of arable land that city slickers call "lawns". If you want a grass lawn, bamboo is a grass you can eat and make things with.   
Have you considered growing it in large pots? Every fall, you can harvest the bamboo for cutting in string-tied bundles, and roll the pots (still containing the roots) inside for the winter. It will get tall over a year's time, but not very big in diameter. When you cut the side stems off, you include them in the target bundle.
1. I include wilderness as a "useful crop", BTW. Among other uses, it helps moderate the weather, gives your hogs a place to root for acorns, and provides "Bambi on ice".  |
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Aug 10, 2024 0:01:46 GMT
You live in The Snow Belt.
That's WA to MA.
Consider it grows out of control in SW Ohio.
You may make friends and weed all at once.
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Post by larason2 on Aug 10, 2024 1:16:30 GMT
I'm definitely in the snowbelt here in Manitoba. However out here we get nice reeds in the late summer that can be 6 feet high. They cut nicely when they're green, but like bamboo wipe your blades after each cut, as they can rust a bit otherwise. I drive around and cut them on the side of the road with a sharp axe. They can be tied in a bundle of 5 or so for a thicker target.
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Post by bandeaurouge on Aug 10, 2024 4:37:32 GMT
You would need too grow it yourself and the cutting would be limited too the growth phase. My tip though: Don't. Bamboo can take over large swaths of land very quicklly and the only way to get rid of it is to dig it all up. It can also break through concrete barriers. I vehemently disagree with you. Bamboo is good. Plant it everywhere not being used for some other useful crop 1 and especially in all those misspent areas of arable land that city slickers call "lawns". If you want a grass lawn, bamboo is a grass you can eat and make things with.
Have you considered growing it in large pots? Every fall, you can harvest the bamboo for cutting in string-tied bundles, and roll the pots (still containing the roots) inside for the winter. It will get tall over a year's time, but not very big in diameter. When you cut the side stems off, you include them in the target bundle.
1. I include wilderness as a "useful crop", BTW. Among other uses, it helps moderate the weather, gives your hogs a place to root for acorns, and provides "Bambi on ice". If the pots have to come inside teh house, it wouldnt work out |
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