After fifteen years of growing bamboo commercially, I still lose poles to cracking every single season. Not from bad harvesting. Not from poor timing. The culprit is almost always the drying phase — specifically, drying too fast or too unevenly….
The Cordless Hedge Trimmer I Use to Keep Bamboo Borders Under Control…
If you’ve never loaded a wheelbarrow with freshly cut bamboo culms, let me paint you a picture. Green bamboo is dense, awkward, and deceptively heavy. A single 20-foot Moso culm can weigh 15 to 25 pounds depending on age and…
If you’ve been reading this site for any length of time, you know I grow bamboo seriously. Fourteen species, a few commercial plots, and a steady stream of neighbours who’ve inherited someone else’s running bamboo nightmare. That last part alone…
By the end of year two, I was ready to give up on the south grove entirely. I had planted a mixed stand of Phyllostachys aureosulcata and Phyllostachys nigra in what I thought was decent ground — slightly acidic, good…