there is a special place in hell for them!

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I'm thinking about trying to see if kudzu will survive in Sacramento.

....perhaps they were BAMBOOzzled......????

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

I think it's really attractive, myself. We're considering planting some as a hedge on one side of our yard. It can be done responsibly so it doesn't spread, using underground barriers, and there are some recently imported varieties that clump more densely rather than spreading.

If it's not done right though, it's a real pain.

"""Why do people plant bamboo? new
there is a special place in hell for them!"""

To achieve having a barrier from their grouchy neighbors and for the white noise *(:>*
There are many varieties and I love Bamboo shoots *(:>*

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy

Bamboo, kudzu, wisteria, water hyacinth, boa snakes in FL, jumping carp in Illinois River, etc., etc. - hate 'em all...

For the pandas man!

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Fast, densely growing, outcompetes all other plants. What could possibly go wrong?

Not all bamboo is invasive. Unfortunately, running bamboo is often sold as clumping bamboo.

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That's a lot of pesto.

Don't forget """Big Bambu"""





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"""I didn't even use a conventional rod and reel. Instead, my weapon of choice was a 10-foot bamboo stick with heavy black Dacron line wrapped around the tip of it, a small lead weight and a tiny cheap hook.?Why didn't I use a regular rod and reel? Oh yeah, we had some at the farm that we used to fish Rice Lake for other species, but the bamboo stick was much better for fishing creeks for a very simple reason. Anyone who has ever tried to sneak up or down a small creek bank knows how frustrating it is when you're fighting your way through bushes and tree branches, getting your rod tip snagged up, cussing with every breath, sweating, trying to untangle your rod and line from the snags. And how do you swat those ever-present mosqitoes while both hands are busy doing the untangling ritual every few minutes??That's where The Big Bamboo came in.First of all, it was light to carry and the extra length allowed me to reach out to the opposite creek bank if I needed to. Better yet, you know those little log jams you know for sure are holding fish but you can't cast into because you'll get snagged in the wood for sure? No problem with The Big Bamboo. I simply reached out over the wood, picked an open hole then unwound the line until my bait entered the water. When a speckie hit, it was just a straight upward lift, then a swinging motion to flop it onto the creek bank. I often caught larger fish that way because they were untouched by other anglers who used conventional rods and reels at that time and couldn't present their worm or grasshopper offering where they wanted it to go. Ahhh, but the trusty "big bamboo" was a precise fish-catching weapon"""


[www.thebigbamboocompany.com]

Bamboo has many most excellent uses me thinks *(:>* It is all about the Bambu man *(:>*

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy




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Just to be clear, the nightie is made of bamboo—not the shoes. But given the versatility of bamboo, would it be surprising if they were?

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy




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so my neighbors are making bamboo lingerie

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pRICE cUBE
For the pandas man!

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“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies."Groucho Marx
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy

maybe they are making fetish fantasy bamboo beaters for Asian torture rituals .

I've got the clumping kind in two places. Nearest neighbors are too far away to bother. Looks great, especially near (but not too near) the Japanese maple....

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What it is, man, a low-down and funky feelin'

I am wearing socks made from bamboo right now, and very comfy they are too!

I moved into a house a few years ago, the back 1/4 of the yard was overgrown with running bamboo...some one a few houses down had planted it years ago, it went crazy from there.

I spend months chopping, mowing and chain-sawing. Finally got it under control. We moved out last year, I went by this year after a wet winter...it's back!

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

I don't know what kind we have around here, but it sure isn't the useful "bamboo pole" kind of bamboo. It's just something that makes it hard to get thru so you can get to the river and fish.

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Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes.

Western Massachusetts

Rolando,

You've described exactly the problem with bamboo. Some forms are considered an invasive species which can cause a great deal of trouble and, as you noticed, much be _very_ carefully controlled. Definitely would not be happy if one of my neighbors planted bamboo simply because I wouldn't trust them to control it properly.

Robert

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LaserKun
Bamboo, kudzu, wisteria, water hyacinth, boa snakes in FL, jumping carp in Illinois River, etc., etc. - hate 'em all...

Did you see the story last week about Queen E. having an eel pie made for-it's a tradition of some sort-and a few lamprey eels were imported to England to make it as they are a protected species there! Dear God, Brits-come and get all you want!

The bamboo I have is non-running, and makes a nice hedge. It's been in the same place for 3 or 4 years now, and no runners anywhere. Several neighbors have some too, none of it appears to be the running kind. One tries to use it as a hedge in front of a large picture window in his bathroom, but another neighbor has reported walking by in the early morning and seeing him naked through the hedge...