>I have been thinking about how to make the hoops to support the plastic covers for our planned raised beds. We have loads of thin bamboo canes from a stretch of bamboo that flowered 3 years ago (as did most of the bamboos in Denmark, leaving loads of garden-owners with huge piles of dead bamboo…), so I figured they might be used if split and watered until supple enough to form the required curve.
However, googling “splitting bamboo” seemed to mainly produce links to a position from the Kama Sutra, and fascinating as the art of love-making might be, this wasn’t exactly helpful to me. I did, eventually, find a couple of useful links, and it seems it really is as straight-forward as one would think.
This has now been added to my list of small garden projects for the remainder of the winter. (The ACTUAL splitting of bamboo; not the Kama Sutra metaphorical one.)
>Hehehe, funny thing!You need a cheap hook for your raised-bed, I found this, maybe a good idea, I´ll try it: http://neulichimgarten.de/blog/gemueseanbau/eines-unserer-beiden-kohlbeete/They used PVC-water-pipes!Have a nice week!
>I've heard of using water pipes for this, but I quite like the idea of trying to use the materials that are already in the garden. The raised beds will be in frames made from the pallets that firewood was delivered on, and the cover will be made from clear trash bags that I found in the shed. I will give the bamboo a go, but if it doesn't work I will definitely resort to a using the PVC pipes or similar.
>Your title was hilarious. I bet you get more hits on this post with a catch like that. You may need a few odd positions just to get them into place.
>Donna, I confess the title is perhaps a touch on the attention-grabbing side, but I was just flat out laughing at the search results I ended up with for a fairly innocent search.
>Ah yes, the dangers of googling for terms that mean far more than you ever thought! Look forward to seeing the (non X-rated) results though, I love the way you are trying to use things you found in and around your garden to build the things you need.
>There will be pictures, of course.And it just seems that when we bought the house and the garden there were so many materials that have potential to become something. Bricks, bits of wood or bamboo, a foot-wide log. If I can avoid throwing anything away, I will. (Also, as a secondary benefit, using free bamboo instead of buying PVC piping will save a little money that can then be used for plants or whatever.)