karaman wrote:
hallo,

i love my chinese bamboo shoots and water chesnuts.

can i grow edible ones in a hot climate - hot summers, cold winters
and i have lots of water nearby.

sofar i am told that bamboo cant be eaten crunchy raw as it has
cyanide but has to be cooked for 20 mins to make it edible. have also
been advised that typha minima is the one to grow for its edible
corms.

does anyone know if this is correct?


Growing both water chestnuts and bamboo will probably be no problem unless
your winters are freezing cold. For water chestnuts you need a pond, I use
an old steel bath. Bamboo will gow anywhere in the sun though better with
decent soil and getting watered when it is dry in summer. I don't know
about the best cultivar of bamboo or its treatment.

David