Jun 25, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening
If you tell your neighbor you’re planting a grove of bamboo in your backyard, be prepared for a variety of responses. Maybe they love bamboo as much as I do, and they’ll want to slap you a high five. But maybe they’re terrified by bamboo’s...
Jun 16, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Based on the flourishing popularity of our recent post on clumping bamboo species, we decided it would be a great idea to do a follow-up. Bamboo has something of a lousy reputation in a lot of gardening circles. However, as with most cases of prejudice, bamboo’s...
Jun 14, 2021 | Bamboo Products, Natural Fibers
The average person spends about one third of their life in bed. That’s around 20 to 30 years in most cases. But I’m not suggesting that you are an average person. Like most of our readers, you’re probably very well-informed and have exceptionally...
Jun 11, 2021 | Green Living
Bamboo is a woody grass with more than 1,400 species growing naturally on five continents. It has been flourishing in a wide range of habitats since the late Cretaceous period, roughly 100-66 million years ago. So that makes bamboo as old as the dinosaurs. Only a few...
Jun 9, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening
When it comes to growing bamboo, one of the chief concerns is about how to contain or control it. Bamboo has a reputation for being unusually fast-spreading and difficult to remove. In fact, this is only true for certain species of bamboo. But if you plant a type of...
