Category Archives: Bamboo

Damn Bunnies!

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Richie Madden
No, not a panda, but you wouldn’t know by their eating habits in New Jersey! We haven’t seen rabbits in our backyard for a couple years now, no doubt due to Cora and Josh, so I got a little lazy protecting the large new shoots in our first bamboo bed, Yellow Groove.
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Josh is a Panda

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Richie Madden
Not a sunny day, but nice, mild and dry. Got to fixing the bamboo fence that surrounds the bambusoides bed. It was bowing out at the top and then collecting leaves. Anchored it around the top to the inside of…
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Bamboo Activity for May 23, 2013

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Richie Madden
Every day I go out to the centerpiece bed in the middle of the backyard and look for new activity. This bamboo species is the latest of our kinds to shoot in the spring. Today I found our first new shoot. I am hoping that this year as it is more established, brings many new shoots as it is pretty bare at the moment. A friend recently asked me if that was a mulch bed rather than a bamboo bed as it is mostly empty.
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