jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 23, 2013 16:41:10 GMT -5
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jan 23, 2013 21:37:34 GMT -5
Does the bamboo stay green all year?
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Jan 23, 2013 22:24:28 GMT -5
looks like you have a pretty cool place there.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 23, 2013 22:50:53 GMT -5
Thanks Brad,is a lot of work!Yes Randy,the bamboo does stay green. i think i have 40 varieties taking over the place.The one in the background is P. Viridis var.Robert Young.A very yellow cane w/green stripes almost to 4 inch canes.
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Post by Pat on Jan 23, 2013 23:01:32 GMT -5
Looks like it could keep you mighty busy. What's in all the black buckets?
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 23, 2013 23:19:15 GMT -5
Those are rock plants Pat.They are low maintenance:>That's where the rocks go.They have been filed in a bit of organization.Mostly coral from Dec and Jan trips.
The big buckets in the the background of the first 2 pics are a dozen different lotus.They are my stock plants.I will break them down in late Feb. and pot up 2-300 in 10 gallon pots.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 18:08:58 GMT -5
that is so bada$$! love those images.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2013 19:34:54 GMT -5
Thanks Scott.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jan 24, 2013 19:49:26 GMT -5
4 inch canes.... wow! Bamboo is cool, you grew those as well?
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Post by helens on Jan 24, 2013 20:01:37 GMT -5
Your place looks soooo interesting! And a lot of work too:).
Where's the bamboo??
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2013 20:56:59 GMT -5
I sold bamboo to the Atlanta market starting 20 years ago.I planted the wildest stock i could afford back then.I planted them strategically so i would not have to mow so much.They have reached max size and some of the groves are 100 feet around and some varieties over 70 feet tall,some max out at 6 feet tall.The bamboo is now a dig your own farm as my wrists gave out from digging it.So it is all over the farm,like 50 groves.Used to sell canes to the Hollywood folks.Did the movie Fled-it had a lot of bamboo in the scenes.My neighbors get canes for fish poles,pot pipes,bean poles,martial arts.The zoo ran tests on Pandas with all the varieties.And a great food source(chutes) april may and june.A 6 foot variety grows 6 feet in 30 days,a 70 foot variety grows 70 feet in 30 days(one cycle of the moon).They grow quik.
Have had the police come down here several times because people reported auto machine gun fire-it was giant piles of bamboo we edged and piled.They explode violently when burned.But it is a passive crop that reduces mowing.Lots of photo shoots too.
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Post by snuffy on Jan 24, 2013 21:26:58 GMT -5
You are right about the exploding bamboo.I have one large grove.One night the deer hit my garden.Cut 52 poles and stuck upright into my chainlink fence and tied poles across the uprights.Deerproofed in several hours,pretty cheap!  snuffy |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2013 21:35:30 GMT -5
Ingenious Snuffy.My neighbor did that for deer too in his hog wire fence.Deer are a huge problem.The game warden tells me to shoot them year around-overpopulation is creating health problems.I have to fence water lily ponds or they will wade out and clean them out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 13:58:20 GMT -5
I had a friend who had a single deer kept hopping the block wall and eating his vegetable garden. A neighbor and her new boyfriend visited for a barbecue one night. Boyfriend was 100% Native American. Dude hears the whining about the deer & garden and says "let me have a look see". They go over to the garden and the block wall. He takes a moment to assess the sitch. Looks around sees a patch of bamboo and asks if he can cut out a cane. She provides a handsaw and he cuts a cane about five feet long. He goes back to the wall and pounds the 5 foot cane about a foot into the ground. He then uses the saw to cut an angle on the top end. Finished, he says, if this works I'll split the meat with you. She says you can have it all.
The next morning she goes out to check. Damned if that deer did not hop the wall in exactly the same spot landing chest first onto that spear of bamboo. The spear was driven almost two feet into the deer, instant death.
Dude got the deer, garden saved. Bamboo did the job!
I need to plan a family vacation to Atlanta to see Jim's farm. Seems like an awesome place!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 25, 2013 14:45:41 GMT -5
I don't want that fellow on your's or my bad side!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 20:06:24 GMT -5
I have no clue how a native american had that kind of instinct in the 1980's. Terribly nice guy.
I checked the Georgia Hunting regs
Whitetail Deer:
12 per season, Statewide
No more than 10 may be antlerless and no
more than 2 may be antlered.
The season runs from Sept. 8th to January 15th! That is a long season with a huge limit.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 25, 2013 20:57:23 GMT -5
In my Fulton County the season is extended to Feb 15.It is always in the top 5 of 168 counties for trophy deer production.And it is the little southern portion that accounts most of those.They are a product of the rich poluted fog of the Chatahoochee river growing great forage.Most are urban/industrial district deer.Much of the best hunting is in the gangsta district of Fulton Indusrial area.Too funny.
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