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Tidgy's Dad

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Correct.
Bamboo is wonderful stuff, used as scaffolding in many Eastern countries as it's tensile strength is greater than steel.
It has over 5,000 uses including desalination, fuel, snorkel, making canes for school teachers, growing runner beans.
It grows very fast, some species up to 4 ft a day hence it's use in torture (under the fingernails, rooms full of the stuff etc.)
You can see it grow.
Some only flower after 120 years of growth.
 

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Correct.
Bamboo is wonderful stuff, used as scaffolding in many Eastern countries as it's tensile strength is greater than steel.
It has over 5,000 uses including desalination, fuel, snorkel, making canes for school teachers, growing runner beans.
It grows very fast, some species up to 4 ft a day hence it's use in torture (under the fingernails, rooms full of the stuff etc.)
You can see it grow.
Some only flower after 120 years of growth.

I want to start a bamboo grove like you wouldn't believe but worry it'd get away from me so I've got to wait till I move back out into the country. It seems much less satisfying growing it in containers.
 

Tidgy's Dad

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I want to start a bamboo grove like you wouldn't believe but worry it'd get away from me so I've got to wait till I move back out into the country. It seems much less satisfying growing it in containers.
Right.
We've got a couple of groves of it between here and the New Town.
it's grown to make cane furniture.
Terrific.
 

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Hi John, glad to hear from you. Yes, sandstorms finally passed. Goodness what a pain they are.

How are you? Hope you are well.


wooo hooo!! :) :) im not too bad, bit sore today and trying to build fidos new house but drill battery doesn't want to hold a charge. grrrr!

anything planned for today?
 
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