Hey dog,
I have a whack of bamboo that I planted years ago in order to grow my own bamboo sticks (and block out the neighbours.) As a result, there is a carpet of dried bamboo leaves and root husks always drying out under my deck nearby. These are well over 50% silica within only a year and provide a supply it would require a working acreage to use fully each year, so I have a serious surplus. I mix the crushed or cut-up dry bamboo leaf with all of my potted 'soils' for silica and aeration and I'm quite pleased with it in this regard.
Super good to know, thanks!
I may get my leaf mould yet!!
There are good bamboo husbanding resources online. Plant the right kinds, in depressions, low spots, and you'll have a bounty within a year.
Yeah, that's what I was talking about.
So I have to find one of those varieties that clump around a waterhole, rather than spread?
I thought about the Japanese Giant Bamboo, because they like to use bamboo to make things here (ladders, sheds, greenhouses, etc.). They use it for all kinds of things.
Time is super scarce here, so may I should just look for an existing clump near a waterhole, and take some shoots, and call it good for now??
I'm sorry I can't provide the intel resources, I've long stopped needing them, but you can find them quite easily. Choosing your variety is critical, again for the same reasons as the comfrey, it can be an uncontrollable menace if poorly chosen and improperly planted. Get that right though and it is a huge resource at very little cost.
Yeah, it sounds like you, CBD, Azi, and everyone trying to warn me off from a bad landing.
Maybe I better listen???
(Hmm.... new practices...... oy.... haha.)
I'm grateful that on my small suburban plot I've now got a number of large maples and other trees I planted that are now strong, towering adult trees. It's remarkable what takes place over 20 years. I mean it, they are huge... and I live on the west coast, where that's actually saying something!
Well, I grew up in the Seattle area, and we had huge maples there.
I don't know the variety, but we would throw the seed pods up in the air, and watch them spiral down.
But I get your point that some stuff grows different on the East Coast, vs. West Coast, vs. the heartland, etc.
Some stuff that grows on one coast won't grow as well on the other coast due to humidity, etc., even though the latitude is the same.
Now change the latitude.
Now add different pests.
Blackberries go insane in North America, but I have never seen a patch of blackberries get out of control in Latin America. They are massively invasive where I grew up, but here they are relatively tame.
And if you would not look at me like I was still out on a mushroom trip, I would talk about how each piece of ground on the planet has its own unique energies, and how certain plants match those energies, while others not. So the point is to find a good fit.
But your point is very well made--some species will still over-achieve when transplanted, and could at least hypothetically upset the whole microsystem--so yeah, maybe I had better listen??????
Thanks.
– is that they go into flower very quickly once transferred, and flowering time is short... between about 5 and 7 weeks.
