Sep-09-2011, 02:43 AM (UTC)
I must admit that I'm a little surprised that people would choose to grow bamboo...I always thought that it was 'taboo to grow bamboo' as, once planted, it was near impossible to control or get rid of, and therefore it becomes a pest? Now I have to wonder if all that is pure fiction!
We used to have a giant clump of bamboo near our homestead when I was growing up and 'The Bamboo Forest' was one of my favourite places to play.
I find that I am suddenly reminded of an episode of "Mythbusters' where it was proven that bamboo could successfully be used as a form of torture. The person being tortured is placed on the ground and this then allows the fast-growing bamboo shoots to grow straight through their body!
Yes, Nuytsia, we do mostly breed our own chickens but our rooster died recently and so we have to replace him.
Actually, for quite a few years we went rooster-less because one of my sons was just so terrified of them. For some reason our various roosters have picked on him over the years, tearing across the paddock to jump on his back and attack him even if he was fifty metres away, riding a pushbike up the road past the chook shed. It's rather funny to see a hulking, rugby league-playing seventeen-year-old whimper at the sight of a rooster!
The good thing about your chillies, fool-ish, is that once the productive bushes are there and settled into your garden, they should last you a long, long time - good one!
I grow the majority of my plants from seed as it is easier for me (living out here in the middle of nowhere), not to mention cheaper. Do you all tend to grow things from established seedlings/plants you've purchased, or do you grow things from seeds as well?
We used to have a giant clump of bamboo near our homestead when I was growing up and 'The Bamboo Forest' was one of my favourite places to play.
I find that I am suddenly reminded of an episode of "Mythbusters' where it was proven that bamboo could successfully be used as a form of torture. The person being tortured is placed on the ground and this then allows the fast-growing bamboo shoots to grow straight through their body!
Yes, Nuytsia, we do mostly breed our own chickens but our rooster died recently and so we have to replace him.
Actually, for quite a few years we went rooster-less because one of my sons was just so terrified of them. For some reason our various roosters have picked on him over the years, tearing across the paddock to jump on his back and attack him even if he was fifty metres away, riding a pushbike up the road past the chook shed. It's rather funny to see a hulking, rugby league-playing seventeen-year-old whimper at the sight of a rooster!
The good thing about your chillies, fool-ish, is that once the productive bushes are there and settled into your garden, they should last you a long, long time - good one!
I grow the majority of my plants from seed as it is easier for me (living out here in the middle of nowhere), not to mention cheaper. Do you all tend to grow things from established seedlings/plants you've purchased, or do you grow things from seeds as well?
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