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Preparing bamboo for winter
If you're living in an area with definite seasons and freezing winters (not Coastal California), then now is the time to start bracing yourself for the cold. Be sure you have enough firewood on hand, begin to think about changing your tires, and start to winterize the...
7 Reasons to love your bamboo boxers
The first time you hear about bamboo boxers and bamboo underwear, you might have your doubts. This exotic grass produces a timber as hard as oak or maple. So how would you expect that material to feel around your tender privates? Whatever assumptions or expectations...
Herbaceous Bamboo: Introducing Olyreae
Most of us who enjoy growing bamboo are aware of two very general types of bamboo: the running bamboos and the clumping bamboos. This is a pretty useful way of categorizing bamboo varieties based on their growth habit. But there is another, higher order of distinction...
Growing bamboo for erosion control
Bamboo has so many practical uses, it's like nothing else in the plant kingdom. Beginning thousands of years ago, people were using bamboo to make paper, spears, and primitive housing structures. More recently we have discovered how to make beautiful flooring and...
How long does bamboo live?
Bamboo is rather famous for how fast and tall it grows, how aggressively it spreads, and for its tremendous sustainability. But some of bamboo's characteristics remain something of a mystery. Many readers and customers want to know, for example, how long does bamboo...
Washing and caring for bamboo sheets
The first time you feel the luxurious softness of a high quality bamboo sheet set, you enter a new world of comfort and coziness. Try sleeping on them for a night, and you'll have a terribly hard time going back to the ordinary cotton sheets of your former life. A bit...