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I am with you on the rules, I particularly like #2 😂, I am just a sucker for the plant, but you reminded me that I need to get myself a reciprocating saw, so far I only ever used the Smaller tool but the saw will make it easier (still a pain in the A##). Here is a question are you living 2 just now? either running or looking? 🤔

@@jochen.allardice-grein haha I’m dealing with clumping, so just spent 10 hours cutting out 1.5sq metres, very dense root system that was at least 30cm deep. A reciprocating saw is brilliant but make sure you get 32cm (12inch) pruning blades and lots of them, they work well in combo with a flat bottomed crow bar.

@@keefrasputin634 thank you for the idea with the blade length 👍I habe so many blind handsaws because of the silica contend in bamboo, but I will get myself a saw soon, to keep the buggers in check 🙂

@@jochen.allardice-grein By the way….Good TH-cam video. Not generally an interesting topic….. good to see a lighthearted approach. I share your joy of bamboo, but maintaining it can ruin your life😅

I haven't been to Mexico, but it is on "the List" much like India, cannot wait to go there for a few months. BUT looking at my garden looked just after 2 weeks not doing anything in it, 🙄, that'll be the next video, vacation clean up..🙂and the drying out is definitely needed, 🤣, for some reason my bananas are not doing too well but my cannas and bamboo, they are shooting out of the ground. We are thinking about another Vacation in September, but lets get the garden sorted out first, chat soon, all the best to you guys.

seeing that you boil the mixture for some time I believe that will kill any fungus or bacteria, I haven't had the rust issue. I plant Garlic all over the place, and I use garlic spray on everything so I am sure that I have planted Garlic were I previously sprayed 🙂

Thank you so much, ☺

Great thank you, that thing is really good I am using it all the time and value for money is amazing.

I had that too, and suddenly the male and female flowers were there

diddydaddy beach 😂, it is a lovely place and we are having the best time. xx

that could quite possibly be the case 😄, I am looking forward to seing how high the Huang has grown

Thank you so much. And you are so very welcome

Good question, when I bought it, it was just labelled as black bamboo, I really should identify which one it is

Thank you so much... It is a serious subject, because bamboo is a wonderful plant when you make the right choice, and know what you are dealing with, the plant isn’t the issue it is people not knowing what the commitment they are getting into.. it is like a marriage 😂😂

I wish I could say the same about Northern Germany. We get enough frost here 🙄, good luck with your stratification 😀

Hey, first of all thank you, and the bamboo shoucl be fine, don't let it dry out that is the only thing I did the same last year dumped some black bamboo in pots and they "moand" for a while but they will be fine.

@@jochen.allardice-grein oh great news. Thank you I’ll keep water on them.

@vanawesome let me know how you are getting on 👍

@@jochen.allardice-grein sadly I think this is more than a pout. They’ve lost pretty much all of their leaves at this point. I think they’re toast :(. I moved about 10 shoots into pots and only one of them still has green leaves. I’m hoping that one survives. Maybe they were too young to transport.

@vanawesome true ilthat doesn't sound good but it could also be that they are putting all the energy into the rhizome, rather than the canes, I am always the hopeful so I would give them some time

Thank you, glad i could help, and Oldhamii is a nice plant 👍

You are so welcome

I wish I had clay, it is extremely sandy soil I have. I also only ever water any of my Bamboos when it has been dry and warm for days, and I don't fed them much either, perhaps if I would look after them better they would grow shallow 🤔

Your bamboo will get to the size it should be, once it is established, what you might have to look at is that when it is really established that it doesn't escape through the bottom of the container.

@@jochen.allardice-grein i want it to escape 😩

@@jochen.allardice-grein And how bog can tbe vovax get on that size container

@watzegjemedaarnouvan ah okay, why did you not plant it in the ground 🤔

@@jochen.allardice-grein Have nowhere else to plant it

Thank you Tammy, lupins are amazing but they are also loved by slugs and snails. I wish I could send you some seeds I have loads of them. Frost really this late in the year, man that would have p$$$t me off. About veg, this is the first time I am growing cucumbers and they are really strange plants, the tomatoes doing really well under the trampoline cover. We are off on Vacation in a few days, cannot wait to see something different, I hope all is great with you guys 👍

@@jochen.allardice-grein Ooooo....vacation. Probably somewhere warm and wonderful?? And what I wouldn't give to get my hands on your seeds. Wait....what?? Apologies Jane. I hope you two have a fantastic time. Don't do anything too silly and raise a glass or two to us on the beach. Cheers friends!!🥂

@@tammythompson1927 🤣🤣🤣, no need to apologise😂, yep off to Spain (there will be videos 🙂) and trust me we will be raise several glasses to you guys 👍

Thank you 👍 , my story is a complicated one 🙂, I am German but lived all over the place growing up, loads of years in the UK, and the end result is my accent, people have commented on before but sexy is a first. 😂

😂😂😂Yup, I am, Love you too xx

Thank you so much ☺️

You are very welcome

Good question, I have no idea, perhaps the slugs got them, I have a ridicules amount slugs and snails this year, we also had a late frost, perhaps that??😔 I am not happy about it and I will try again.

actually someone commented on this Video saying just that, that Garlic powder would work too, I have not tried it so far, because I made a HUGE batch of Garlic Water, but worth a try I guess. if you try let me know what the result is.

@@jochen.allardice-grein Thanks for the reply.

I feel your pain, pulling out big rhizomes is a pain in the a$$, it is quite obvious that I love bamboo, but you really need to know what you are planting and how to take car of it, the trench for instance doesn't work for all bamboos, I had to find out 🙂, it is all a learning curve.

Nigel, we moved in, in 2010 the year my mother died, we have been in Germany for a while but not 24 years hahaha, I am super happy with what we have created, and it is changing all the time, so who knows what it looks like in a few years.. If we are still here than.

Thank you and you are right, there are a lot of exciting things going on and I cannot wait either to see the willies everywhere ☺

Thank you, andt hat is also the issue, it is the gardens fault that I drink all the time 🤣🤣

Thank you so much that really made my day, ☺️, the Gran Canaria videos were so different to all my other contend but I had so much fun making them, and when we went back the second time last year, guests in the hotel recognised me from the video, which was strange but also so lovely. And don't worry, I have way too much fun making my videos for them to stop.

Hallo Thomas, ja ich hatte mal eine vor Jahren, aber die hat den Witer nicht überlebt. Die stand wo jetzt meine Bananen sind, und ja das Garten ist wirklich groß (manchmal zu groß😃) aber jetzt wüsste ich nicht wohin damit, aber eine Überlegung wert. Gruß Jochen

Thank you, and when it comes to nature viewing, the only thing I haven't seen in the garden songar is a wolf, 😂, but we have them not too far away, so it might be just a matter of time 🤔

Thank you so much, and I love sharing my garden, yes it is a canna tropicana and I will post updates about their progression, I have (well it feels like) hundreds of sycamore trees growing in the garden and most of them I pull out, some I let grow for firewood in the future, free heat, we have a wood burner in the living area, so I am good with them,

Thank you, yes it was not easy and took some time and some of the neighbours are not happy with it either, they want to have a view beyond their own garden (they should have bought the Landn hahaha ), but frankly I don't want to see how much sugar they put in their coffee 😊 when we moved in that was the goal I set myself, during the summer we don't have to see the 13 neighbours we have. And I wanted to have place for wild life, because around here, everybody is cutting down trees because they have solar panels on their roof.

of course they are (like acorn antiques hahah) sometimes I just cannot think of the English or German word and I am also learning spanish just now soon I am even more confused

Thank you and too true, we are looking forward once they both move out 😂

sorry long reply 🙂What bamboo are you planting? Do you know the name? when it comes to a rhizome barrier, this is what you should use HDPE foil, usually 2mm thick but very hard not to compare with normal 2mm thick plastic for example pond liner will not do the job! Also the barrier needs to go at least 80cm into the ground and about 10 - 15 cm above the ground. You can buy it quite easily online, that is where I get it from. The danger with using something that might not be strong enough for the rhizomes, you think the baboo has not spread but it is underground and by the time you realize that stuff is everywhere. Depending on what type you plant a rhizome trench would also be an idea, but that you need to check throughout the year.

We had a long weekend here too and as it was with you, the weather was amazing, loads of drinks and BBQ,. My cannas are amazing I am also surprised how well they have done. I have so much moss in my garden and it is a pain to mow cross it but if I wouldn't have the moss there would be so much more grass, which is also a pain 😂😂

You gotta love it😁@@jochen.allardice-grein

Thank you soo much. It is probably the algorithm that is stopping it 😂😂😂😂

@@jochen.allardice-grein I recently watched a video on how the algorithm works, and the increase in numbers will come very suddenly after some sort of plateau. You are going to see it! Also as a fellow habitant of Germany with a firm background, it would also be cool to see a video of you talking about how you came about being in Germany. Like having some sort of Q&A to get to know the funny person behind all the plant knowledge for the followers to connect with you. The why that made you be intrigued by plants or be in Germany, etc. i’m sure starting an open poll on one of your social media outlets, potentially Instagram or Facebook, depending on your viewers demographics that you can see as the owner of your TH-cam channel in the background, but we cannot see it, it’s your analytics, with giving people a chance to ask you anything you could go ahead and collect all the questions you got and make a Q&A out of it so that way you make sure that it is relevant to the viewers and you will make it entertaining and informative just by being you. That way you have a beautiful mixture of being informative, entertaining, relevant. In case you wonder, am I some sort of marketing consultant, yes, I am and I have helped some big companies in Germany get ahead, esp niches. I really wanna see you succeed so here’s some free tea I’m sure you will be able to amazingly implement and succeed with adjoining it to your other marketing strategies do you have going for yourself I’m sure. If I can further be of help, let me know! 🍵❤😊 I’m genuinely intrigued as a follower, even though I am fairly new in your tribe of followers so to say :)

@@Themingbeing Thank you for all this information, however I have a extremely demanding “day” job about 10 hours per day, so the only time I have to produce my videos is on the weekend, which takes up most of that time too, I would love to engage more with everybody but life as it is just now doesn’t allow it, unfortunately

I am so happy how it looks and of course there will be updates 😉

Man that sucks, but the positive aspect to take from this is that the new generation will be there for a very long time

Thank you, the sun lounger thing, people do put their towels down in the morning (and not just us Germans 🤣🤣) there is a lot more space at the "kiddy " pool and more sun as well, because you don't have that huge cliff. I am sure you'll have a super time. And the cable ties also come in handy for other situations 😂

It has been strange here too, up to about 1 month ago we had just rain every day and a lot of it and now we're I am nothing for weeks and the temperature is in the 20c. Other parts of Germany had 100 liter per m² in a single day🙄. Mow that they are outside I water my cannas every day. I hope yours recover.

They should develop a good root system in a couple of weeks

That is okay too, they are very resilient plants

@@jochen.allardice-grein oh ty (*ˊᗜˋ*)ᵗᑋᵃᐢᵏ ᵞᵒᵘ

😂it can't be Bamboo all the time 🤣🤣

@@jochen.allardice-grein It was not a question 🙂😉

@watzegjemedaarnouvan 😂😂, I'll see what I can do. The next will be canna & banana they need to go out

@@jochen.allardice-grein I baught my musa banjo will it survive in bergen norway i want big long 🍌 😉

@@watzegjemedaarnouvan it will if you wrap it well, it should survive . my Banana survived -14 before, but it was only for a short time.

🤣🤣 it is a bit like plant porn 🤣🤣

I love showing my Banana and I hope it will be a stunner in a few weeks, my red bananas and cannas coming out too, the weather has been amazing here for the past few days, I completely forgot to plant castor oil plants this year and you are right they are amazing. A cottage by a lake, nice👍. I need one of that 😃 loads of my Swedish and finish friends have summer houses in the woods, a while back we were thinking about getting a pied-à-terre in Berlin, but I am glad we didn't, I just cannot be fu***g a*ed with the people., we have a long weekend coming up again, I'll be raising a bottle or 20 to you guys too 😂

Thank you so much and I also wish inhad more time to do more videos, I really enjoy the process. About the seeds soak them in water for 24 hours and plant them in a propagating tray with a clear lid on top so that it stays warm inside, only cover them lightly with soil. In about 20 or so days you should see some action. Let me know how you are getting on. What kind of bamboo are you growing ?

Yes it did 👍👍

Thank you and you are very welcome 😊