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>> Tuesday, April 11, 2017 –
bamboo shoots
Why do the best bamboo shoots...
...always come up where they shouldn't?
My strategy of letting my Phyllostachys bissetii extend its rhizomes under the driveway...
...has gone a little awry. The idea was that longer rhizomes meant bigger culms...
...but I have to remember to rhizome prune along the back edge of the driveway.
It might be easier to just keep pruning before the rhizomes get under the concrete, but that's a decision for another day.
What, you don't arrange your bamboo shoots by size?
I love seeing bamboo shoots, even when they're coming up where I don't want them to. Love them!
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I share your love of bamboo shoots and often have a few severed ones hanging around the garden for fun. Bamboo is one of those love/hate relationship plants.
I dreamed about bamboo shoots last night -- really big, fat ones! (Which is exactly what bamboo growers want to see. Now I just need to go outside and check if there is any reality to it, or if it was just wishful dreaming)
Big risk, big reward?
Do you ever eat your bamboo shoots?
Gerhard: I do eat some of them, but you have to catch them at just the right size and it's tricky. I eat a few raw standing out in the garden though. :)