101 uses for bamboo
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Ebay? Freecycle? I'm always amazed at what people will take off your hands!Tinkers wrote:I will just have far more if it than I know what to do with
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I've already emailed everyone local, including neighbours.
I've posted on local FB pages.
I may cut some down to more reasonable lengths and just leave it outside the house for people to take.
I've managed to get rid of two reasonably big bundles to neighbours, but I've bearly scratched the surface of the amount I have, probably about 10%.
A neighbour suggested the local horticultural society, so might wander over sometime and see if they want some. It's tall bamboo, so it's amusing to see it been carried around.
People pay good money for bamboo canes at garden centres, especially the really long stuff.
I've posted on local FB pages.
I may cut some down to more reasonable lengths and just leave it outside the house for people to take.
I've managed to get rid of two reasonably big bundles to neighbours, but I've bearly scratched the surface of the amount I have, probably about 10%.
A neighbour suggested the local horticultural society, so might wander over sometime and see if they want some. It's tall bamboo, so it's amusing to see it been carried around.
People pay good money for bamboo canes at garden centres, especially the really long stuff.
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Cut into lengths with sharp ends and market as 11plus motivators to be used over a long hot summer by pushy parents on reluctant to work kids. Sell a longer version for kids to defend themselves with. 
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How many do you want Steve?
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Reckon we'll need a gross of each for Caversham, cem might be tutor proof but not poke with a sharp bamboo stick proof.Tinkers wrote:How many do you want Steve?
Any chance of a wholesale discount like I got last year on the Willow whips?
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southbucks3
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I was using a bamboo cane to cajole an escaped bunny from its unreachable location yesyerday, cheeky thing nibbled the end! I then lost my temper...having been stung and brambled and I snapped it in two on the ground....Dh had a big go as the top had been customised with wire and duck tape to collect ping pong bals from the Hawthorne hedge.
Finally got her out with use of dog on an extender lead.....genius.
Tinkers, have you got local allotments....We get gifts of manure, seedlings, sticks, net curtains, carpet for weed control etc, with messages saying please take and use...I am sure they would he appreciated.
Finally got her out with use of dog on an extender lead.....genius.
Tinkers, have you got local allotments....We get gifts of manure, seedlings, sticks, net curtains, carpet for weed control etc, with messages saying please take and use...I am sure they would he appreciated.
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For you Steve, mates rates. As long as you pick them up you can have them for free.stevew61 wrote:Reckon we'll need a gross of each for Caversham, cem might be tutor proof but not poke with a sharp bamboo stick proof.Tinkers wrote:How many do you want Steve?
Any chance of a wholesale discount like I got last year on the Willow whips?
The local horticultural society is at the local allotments.
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franticmum
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Your comment about a panda may not be that silly. Our local zoo actually requests bamboo from people as they go through tons a day and I believe that they collect from people's homes. If you have a zoo anywhere near you, they may be interested. I'm definite that our local zoo doesn't actually have a 'full blown' panda as it tends to be the smaller animals there, but I know something they have eats the stuff, maybe a red panda, as these are becoming popular? So worth enquiring.
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Apparently there's only Edinburgh zoo in the UK. London zoo used to.
Will check out some of the rest though. Marwell or Cotswold wildlife park are he nearest big ones. I think.
Will check out some of the rest though. Marwell or Cotswold wildlife park are he nearest big ones. I think.
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Well hopefully someone from a local horticultural therapy charity (Ridgeline trust for those in Reading) is coming tomorrow morning to take it away.
Although he tells me he has a hatchback, I think he has underestimated how tall it was. And possibly how much. He does want to take as much as he can though.
All that needed to be chopped down has been. Now setting fire to bits of old shed and throwing in the odd bit of bamboo, makes a loud bang when it explodes. (Neighbours both sides are away so we can get away with it).
We still didn't find a panda, but I did find the remains of two oil drums and a cast iron drain pipe in two pieces. I also now know when DH put loads of large stones he dug up from another part of the garden.
Although he tells me he has a hatchback, I think he has underestimated how tall it was. And possibly how much. He does want to take as much as he can though.
All that needed to be chopped down has been. Now setting fire to bits of old shed and throwing in the odd bit of bamboo, makes a loud bang when it explodes. (Neighbours both sides are away so we can get away with it).
We still didn't find a panda, but I did find the remains of two oil drums and a cast iron drain pipe in two pieces. I also now know when DH put loads of large stones he dug up from another part of the garden.
