Gosh Don, do you have that many weeds in your containers?? LOL!!

Now there's a new retirement job for you- making and selling hoes, so to speak.

Ingenious on your part. You could make a fortune.

Karen

Cool!

Donn,
You gave me my first laugh of the day...from pot ghettos to hoes...what a productive retirement you're having!
Seriously, leave it to you to figure out tools. Why not?
And you grow bamboo??? Inside or outside? There's something I can aspire to. That an a good avocado, mango, ackee, and coconut tree. I think I'd need a whole room for that.

Linda

I grow Bamboo outdoors. My grove is about 26' long, 8' deep and crescent-shaped. I started it 4 years ago with some rhizomes I dug at a local boatyard.

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The tallest culm so far is about 12' and 1" diameter. As you can see from the picture, Yellow Groove is a runner, and I must have 300 new shoots this year. I root-prune around the grove to keep it where I want it.

3 years ago, I planted 2 small rhizomes of a dwarf variegated Bamboo called Pleioblastus fortunei. This 'Boo likes shade, and stays under 2' tall.

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It dies to the ground every winter, and grows back in a clump twice the diameter of the previous year. Eventually I hope for it to become a solid understory for the taller 'Boo, which will hit 30-40'.

HO HO HO! You are the Grand Master Hoe Pimp!

Hmmm...now does Donn wear a Snoop Doggy/Superfly hat when he comes up with is creations?? One with a big Pennisteum blade in the band?

:-)
Linda