How to grow bamboo: an expert guide "Bamboo is a popular garden plant for many reasons – not least of all the fact it’s so easy and quick to grow," says Christopher O'Donoghue, one of the co ...

Whether you want to grow it, control it or eradicate it, you need to first know about the structure of bamboo both above ground and below ground. Above ground, the main section of stem that you ...

2007-07-15 04:00:00 PDT Mount Vernon , Wash.-- Bamboo is a versatile, ancient plant that shows up in creation myths as well as in pots on Manhattan terraces. It comes in clumping varieties that ...

Edible Bamboo Growing Conditions. Bamboo, which is essentially a giant grass, is very easy to grow. Plant it in rich, well-drained soil in a sunny or partly shaded location. Like all grasses, bamboo ...

Fast-growing bamboo creates Zen in the garden. By Kathy Huber, Garden Editor, ... That means a new shoot emerging in a 60-foot-tall grove will catch up to the other guys in no time.

Growing bamboo from seed or by division creates plants of different sizes, forms and colorations. But each species of these bamboos, growing by the tens of thousands in the Mt. Vernon greenhouses ...

However, it’s quite straightforward to grow bamboo for sale as nursery plants. Simply plant a grove, let it spread, and then pot up small clumps to sell to local nurseries or direct to consumers. A ...

Grow bamboo if you like, but it may spread. Susan Hart. Mention the word “bamboo” to a non-gardener and it may conjure up images of bamboo shoots in a salad, ...

Gardeners there started a stand of Phyllostachys nuda some 40 years ago to grow their own bamboo stakes. Today, the grove of 45-foot-tall culms covers about an acre and is cut with paths that ...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. | Bamboo is a versatile, ancient plant that shows up in creation myths as well as in pots on Manhattan terraces. It comes in clumping varieties that behave themselves and ...