Author Topic: Bamboo  (Read 3156 times)

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
  • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Bamboo
« on: March 26, 2013, 07:39:39 pm »
Did my gardening job today and had to thin out the bamboo patch. I trimmed the stems up for canes for the garden and was left with an enormous pile of bamboo leaves.
My goats now think I am God ;D ;D ;D
The sheep are enjoying it too, I am sorely tempted to plant some to crop for winter fodder :thumbsup:
We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


Bring the peace back

deepinthewoods

  • Guest
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 07:40:32 pm »
are you breeding pandas?

colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
  • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 07:42:20 pm »
are you breeding pandas?




Nah, they are rubbish at it ;D
We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


Bring the peace back

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 11:34:27 pm »
How to make friends and influence (goaty) people.   :roflanim:

countrywoman

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2013, 09:49:13 am »
My goats also love pampas grass and the many (many) massive ornamental grasses planted by the previous owner.  I had noticed for the last few years that they were self-seeding into multiple clumps all round the garden and, pre-goats, decided to get my husband to zap them with weedkiller.  Now I'm glad I didn't because they grow and re-grow from cropping armfuls all summer and the goats wolf them down.
 
In the past I used to burn the stems when I chopped them back and they gave off a burnt-sugar smell so I imagine that is why the goats like them so much: mini-sugar cane.
 
I'm also planting tiny self-sown goat willows all round the edge of my garden because the girls love every part of it.  When I walk my dogs round local lanes there are lots of 6" high seedlings in the verges which I pull out and all I need to do is make a tiny hole with a garden cane and stuff them in when I get home.  Last week I found almost a whole large goat willow that someone had dumped illegally - so I very kindly tidied it up...

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2013, 12:34:36 pm »
My goats also love pampas grass and the many (many) massive ornamental grasses planted by the previous owner.  I had noticed for the last few years that they were self-seeding into multiple clumps all round the garden and, pre-goats, decided to get my husband to zap them with weedkiller.  Now I'm glad I didn't because they grow and re-grow from cropping armfuls all summer and the goats wolf them down.
 
In the past I used to burn the stems when I chopped them back and they gave off a burnt-sugar smell so I imagine that is why the goats like them so much: mini-sugar cane.
 
I'm also planting tiny self-sown goat willows all round the edge of my garden because the girls love every part of it.  When I walk my dogs round local lanes there are lots of 6" high seedlings in the verges which I pull out and all I need to do is make a tiny hole with a garden cane and stuff them in when I get home.  Last week I found almost a whole large goat willow that someone had dumped illegally - so I very kindly tidied it up...
Its when you keep goats you realise the value of these things, one mans tin is another mans gold  ;D

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Bamboo
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2013, 10:10:47 pm »
Mine love ornamental grass as well.  Unfortunately, it's right next to the pear tree which they like even more.

 

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