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Dividing & feeding a Bamboo
We have a couple of bamboo bought from a general diy shop/garden centre
which are in pots. One of them looks a bit cramped in the pot . I understand you can divide bamboo's and so I could get 2 or more for the price of one. When would be a good time to do this ? Also when and with what should you feed bamboo's ? Cheers Colin |
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Dividing & feeding a Bamboo
Gardening_Convert wrote:
We have a couple of bamboo bought from a general diy shop/garden centre which are in pots. One of them looks a bit cramped in the pot . I understand you can divide bamboo's and so I could get 2 or more for the price of one. When would be a good time to do this ? Also when and with what should you feed bamboo's ? Second half of April or thereabouts for me. Make sure any piece you hack off -- they're very tough -- has plenty of roots of its own. But assuming you want to grow your divisions in a container, I suggest John Innes rather than the soil-less mixtures. You could use good garden soil mixed with about a third used growbag stuff and up to a dessertspoonful of Growmore. The old plant probably wants to be repotted with as much fresh stuff as you can work in. In the ground they don't want any special feeding as long as the soil's in good heart -- dig in some bonemeal, of course, and compost if you've got it. You could do that now, so the soil's settled well before you plant them out. Gosh! I've just thought...this _is_ a dwarf bamboo, isn't it? If not, I don't think a pot's going to give it enough room. -- Mike. |
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