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Jan 27, 2012
Plant Bamboo - Growing Bamboo Methods
Guide to planting and growing bamboo. How to plant bamboo, how to grow bamboo plants successfully and care for bamboo plants; location, sun, water, soil, mulch, fertilizer, weeds, pruning, spacing, stakes, and spreading
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Jan 5, 2012
Build My Own Thing from Bamboo
I want to build my own thing from bamboo (kind of furniture). Where can I find the information of suitable type of bamboo, what tools to use to cut and
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Dec 27, 2011
Reel for Montague Radidan Fly Rod
I have a Montague Rapidan 4 piece fly rod. I need to purchase a reel for the rod. what reel matches up with this rod
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Dec 14, 2011
Dividing Clumping Bamboo and Propagating Bamboo
How to make divisions of bamboo plants for propagation and controlling growth. Dividing clumping bamboo creates new bamboos and prevents clumps from getting too big or spreading. Use new plants for privacy screening or to sell.
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Dec 14, 2011
Dividing Container Bamboo to Propagate or Sell
How to divide bamboo plants through bamboo division. Growing bamboos to transplant, sell, or give away using propagation by dividing container bamboo. Plant the new divisions in your landscaping privacy hedge and windbreak projects, use in gardening, or put into more pots and containers.
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Dec 14, 2011
Bamboo Division - Propagating Bamboo by Division
How to propagate and divide bamboo plants successfully through bamboo division. Growing additional bamboo plant divisions with propagation by dividing bamboo in pots or planted in the ground. Sell, transplant, or give your new bamboos as gifts!
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Dec 7, 2011
Bamboo Fence Panels - Ready made Panels for Fencing
Prefabricated fencing sections and such as bamboo fence panels and screens offer time savings, ready built so you can concentrate on building your privacy fence using readymade panels manufactured out of bamboo
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Dec 5, 2011
Bamboo Plants - Choosing and Growing Bamboo
Evergreen bamboo plants are ideal for; bamboo garden screen, hedge, windbreak, ground cover, and ornamental bamboo features. Species range from requiring a tropical environment to the hardy bamboo species that grow in cooler climates. Which type of bamboo would suit you?
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Nov 29, 2011
Bamboo Bed Sheets - Quality Thread Sheets and Bamboo Bedding
Bed sheets made from natural bamboo fabric are softer than cotton, breathable, have antimicrobial and antifungal properties, and bamboo bed sheets are an ideal solution for those with allergies
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Nov 29, 2011
Dwarf Bamboo - your guide to growing a bamboo ground cover in your garden
Dwarf Bamboo, species of ground cover bamboo to compliment your garden design
Nov 28, 2011
Bamboo Floor Vase - beautifully crafted vases made from bamboo
Bamboo Floor Vase, a stunning addition to compliment your interior design
Nov 28, 2011
Bamboo Towels - Natural Fabric Towels made from Bamboo
Bamboo is an excellent bath towel alternative to using cotton. Bamboo towels are very soft and are; anti-bacterial, moisture wicking, breathable, and environmentally friendly
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Nov 22, 2011
Bamboo Floor Care, how to care for bamboo hard wood flooring, guide to best practice
How to care for bamboo hard wood flooring along with tips on general practices in bamboo floor care to ensure your flooring stays in pristine condition and your investment in home improvement is protected.
Nov 22, 2011
Bamboo Fountain and Shishi Odoshi Water Spout Made from Bamboo
A Shishi Odoshi bamboo fountain is a popular choice of water fountain in modern garden design and often discovered in Japanese tea gardens. Shishi Odoshi is 'deer scarer' in Japanese; used as a scarer to frighten deer and birds away from rice fields
Nov 20, 2011
Woven Strand Bamboo Flooring Guide
A durable and beautiful alternative to types of traditional hardwood floors is woven strand bamboo flooring. Bamboo hardwood flooring is a contemporary and sustainable choice for installing as a natural floor material.
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Nov 20, 2011
Bamboo Cabinets - Environmentally Friendly Cabinets Made from Bamboo
High quality and unique bamboo cabinets made from a sustainable and renewable building material. Get eco-friendly by choosing bamboo for home or office cabinets.
Nov 14, 2011
Books on Building Using Bamboo Materials
If you are looking for a Christmas gift for someone who would be interested in the potential for using bamboo in construction and DIY projects, there are some really good books about building with bamboo that include examples such as: a new book on 'Bamboo Architecture' by Robert Henrikson covering architectural bamboo designs and bamboo buildings that are nothing less than fascinating; Building With Bamboo; 'A Handbook' by Jules J.A. Janssen, revised to bring research on testing bamboo and the experience of building engineers together including harvesting and seasoning bamboo along with forming of doors, windows, roofs, ceilings, floors, walls, and bridges; 'Grow Your Own House' by Simon Velez covering the rediscovery of bamboo for construction and the unique bamboo qualities that makes this material suitable for many architectural uses and designs; and 'New Bamboo' by Marcelo Villegas that demonstrates appeal of modern designs and structures made with materials that are natural with particular focus on use of the giant bamboo Bambusa guadua. See more books about using bamboo to build by following the link.
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Nov 9, 2011
Bamboo Clothing - A Natural Fabric with Amazing Properties
Bamboo clothes are an excellent natural fabric alternative to cotton. Bamboo clothing is soft, breathable, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal, hygienic, moisture wicking, anti-static, UV protective, and environmentally friendly
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Nov 5, 2011
Bamboo Wind Chimes by Bamboo Inspiration
Relaxing and tranquil, the soothing sound of bamboo wind chimes. Wind chimes made from bamboo are natural and make excellent gifts for; Christmas, birthdays, friends, and for occasions such as when unique wedding gifts are required!
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Nov 4, 2011
Help Identify Two Vintage Split Cane Rods?
I have two vintage split cane rods that I want to identify. Each one of the rods is marked with a five pointed gold star with a letter at each point (H
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Nov 1, 2011
About Bamboo from Bamboo Inspiration
Bamboos are; evergreen plants with over 1,000 species, versatile landscaping and gardening ornamental plants, and excellent environmentally friendly material for making crafts, home projects, hobby and bamboo building products of exceptional quality and durability. Read about bamboo…
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Oct 31, 2011
Bamboo Garden - Bamboo Inspiration for Bamboo Plants and Gardening
Bamboo garden plants and care guides; ornamental bamboo, ground cover, hedging and garden screening, and ideas for; bamboo structures, fencing and border edging, bamboo water fountains, gazebos and garden furniture
Oct 31, 2011
How Can I Seal Bamboo?
I would like to keep the yellow and green color as long as possible. Can I seal it ? With What? Answer: Your question is very short and you didn't explain
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Oct 28, 2011
Phyllostachys Aureosulcata Spectabilis Bamboo
Phyllostachys aureosulcata spectabilis is an attractive highly ornamental hardy bamboo plant species with yellow culms, dark green stripe contrasting sulci, and occasional zigzag culm shapes. Juvenile culms and branches tinge with pink, red, green, and a creamy yellow, foliage is dark green with cream variegation.
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Oct 14, 2011
Bamboo Picture Frame - Natural and Eco Friendly Bamboo Frames
Bamboo Picture Frame provides a beautiful, green, and natural looking bamboo frame for your picture or photo. Bamboo can also be used for unusual and unique mirror frames
Oct 14, 2011
Bamboo Bath Towel - Organic Bamboo for Quality Bath Towels
Natural bamboo towels are moisture wicking, extremely soft, anti-bacterial, and a bamboo bath towel is an excellent natural fibre alternative choice to cotton bath towels.
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Oct 12, 2011
Pulling Out Tall Bamboo to Transplant
Should I pull out the tall entire bamboo shoot or trim it down. The lady that I am giving it to wants to plant a privacy fence with it. Thank you Rene
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Oct 5, 2011
Can Anyone Help us Value a Bamboo Rod?
Help please! We had a major fire in our home, and lost a lot of our belongings. Traumatic and heartbreaking. The insurance company is asking for values
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Sep 30, 2011
Bamboo Floor Pictures - Images of Bamboo Flooring Samples
Bamboo Floor Pictures - Bamboo floors are exceptionally durable, environmentally friendly, a renewable resource, and one of the hardest natural resources available...
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Sep 27, 2011
Odds of Making Your Own Fishing Rod Blanks, free fly fishing rod tips, resources, guides, and articles
The Odds of Making Your Own Fishing Rod Blanks is one of many articles and guides about bamboo fishing rods published by expert authors.
Sep 19, 2011
Is This a Valuable Fishing Rod?
A friend of mine bought a hand made bamboo fly rod for $100 recently. It's really beautiful. It is Japanese, made in 1959 by a company named Pearl and
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Sep 16, 2011
Bamboo in a Barrel - How Can I Move It?
Hello, I recently bought a house and the former owner left me this very nice bamboo (it's marked phyllostachys aurea) in a large barrel. I am almost
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Sep 12, 2011
Using an Old Bamboo Fly Rod
Should you soak an old bamboo fly rod before you use it
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Aug 24, 2011
Bamboo Shoots - Bamboo Plant Shoot
Bamboo shoots are fast growing producing new culms to harvest for a wide variety of uses from construction to crafts and as a healthy food source. Edible bamboo can also be used in many bamboo dishes and recipes and is an ingredient often found in some Asian cooking
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Aug 16, 2011
Bamboo Flutes
Bamboo flutes have a unique tone to the instrument that is dependant on; the flute maker, the flute player, and the characteristics of the bamboo
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Aug 15, 2011
Bamboo Didgeridoos
Bamboo Didgeridoos Australian Wind Musical Instrument made by Nektar Bambu
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Aug 12, 2011
Bamboo Flooring - Exceptionally Durable Bamboo Floors
Guide to bamboo flooring with advice and articles on aspects of sourcing and buying bamboo floors, with tips on suppliers, installing flooring, and on how to care for flooring made from bamboo, one of the hardest natural renewable resources available.
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Aug 11, 2011
Bamboo Fencing for Gardening and Landscaping Projects
Looking for fencing with a difference? Bamboo fencing will last just as long as hardwood fencing and caring for a bamboo fence is the same for this eco friendly and natural material as it is for wooden fencing
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Aug 11, 2011
Bamboo Fabric and Fiber is Smooth, Soft, and Luxuriously Comfortable
Bamboo fabric has an incredible softness, is breathable, anti-bacterial, moisture wicking, a natural material, and has an eco-friendly reputation. Used for; bamboo clothing, sheets and bedding, towels, bath robes, and more...
Aug 11, 2011
Bamboo Blinds and Shades for your Windows and Screening Needs
Bamboo blinds and bamboo window shades guide. Blinds made from bamboo provide; shade, room screen partitions, or covers for windows in your house, greenhouse, shed, or office environment.
Aug 8, 2011
Bamboo Rice Steamer - Steamers for healthy fast food
A bamboo rice steamer can be used to cook rice and vegetables, fish, meat, and more. These bamboo steamers cook rapidly and simply, are easy to keep clean, and very light
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Aug 3, 2011
Golden Bamboo or Fishpole Bamboo, Phyllostachys aurea
Golden Bamboo has bright green culms turning creamy yellow, high dense foliage, edible shoots, and is used for bamboo crafts such as bamboo fishing rods poles and walking sticks. Phyllostachys aurea is a popular bamboo plant for landscaping, gardening, bamboo windbreaks, hedging, and garden screens.
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Jul 28, 2011
Very Succesful Killing Bamboo Method
Digging up bamboo would be great but we have way too much for that and some of it is growing under a huge oak tree, no digging there. So, I cut each cane
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Jul 27, 2011
Black Bamboo - Phyllostachys nigra
Black bamboo has very glossy black culms, edible shoots, and is used for harvesting bamboo as a material for crafts. Phyllostachys nigra is a most popular bamboo species for gardening, landscaping, hedging, windbreaks, and garden screens.
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Jul 21, 2011
Bamboo Forum - List of forums around the world
Bamboo Forum is a resource with an international list of bamboo forums, bamboo groups, and discussion lists. Find a forum, e group, or discussion list with a bamboo focus!
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Jul 21, 2011
Trying to Identify a Bamboo Fly Rod
Found in attic, 3 piece bamboo fly rod, 102 overall length, all pieces of equal length. The only markings are the word PREMIER in a black diamond near
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Jul 20, 2011
We Killed the Bamboo!
Not wanting to use chemicals in our ground soil (well one of us didn't want to use chemicals), we opted for the digging method. This is truly hard work
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Jul 19, 2011
Lucky Bamboo for Health or Wealth?
Lucky for good health or lucky for wealth? I remember one time when I bought a lucky bambo plant it was written on the instructions that if you put your
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Jul 15, 2011
Bamboo Bridge on Mangrove Swamps
Is there anything we can do to make a bamboo bridge last longer on mangrove swamps? We are planning to make a bridge out of bamboo (instead of concrete)
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