The physical properties of bamboo make it a wonderful resource for craft work. However, the initial challenge for the craftsman is making sure the the culms will not be destroyed by beetles or fungal attacks or ruined by cracks and splits. A few basic rules may help for a successful harvest. Age, season of cutting, and post-cutting treatments are all crucial aspects. The culms should be mature (four to eight years) and should be harvested in the dry season.

It depends. If you have an established planting, cut the culm off at ground level, making a horizontal cut with a saw or pruners. Take care not to leave an angled stump as this could cause a fall and injury to someone walking through the grove. If you have only one or a few culms and want to save them, you can splint the culm(s). Just use a piece of bamboo culm, stick, dowel, etc. on two sides of the break and tape in a splint-like fashion. See similar questions...

Nancy Bess, Arts & Crafts Coordinator, provided this answer. “I am a basket maker and use a little bamboo in my work; however, I have watched lots of Japanese craftspeople at work, so I’ll share what I have learned. Also, there is a new book that is out now from Carol Stangler. Called The Craft and Art of Bamboo (Lark Books, ISBN: 1579901913), it covers lots of the questions having to do with tools and procedures. I know she interviewed the Lingens who are fence builders. See similar questions...

Bamboo is a grass, which is extremely varied. It belongs to over a hundred genera, covering over 1000 different species, and ranging in size from less than a few feet to well over 100 feet in height. It is one of the most tremendous living resources in the world. Its strength and durability lend it to many uses – from use as a structural building material to a food source. Bamboo is made of long cellulose fibers that run parallel to each other over the entire length of the stalk. See similar questions...

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In emulated networks under ModelNet, the Bamboo router has shown the ability to successfully perform lookups under incredibly high churn rates. For median session times as short as 1.4 minutes, it returns consistent results 95% of the time, with a mean response time two seconds. For much lighter churn (median session times of three hours), the router returns consistent results 99.99% of the time, with a mean response time of 220 milliseconds. See similar questions...

The main component other than the router included with Bamboo is the put/get layer, which provides a hash-table-like interface. Clients can put key-value pairs into the DHT, and then later get them back out. All key-value pairs have an associated time-to-live (TTL) in seconds, and are discarded after being stored for that amount of time. We have been running both the Bamboo router and put/get layer on PlanetLab 24/7 since April 2004, and measuring its performance continually since August 2004. See similar questions...

If you are a West Virginia craft artisan, residing in West Virginia, and your craft items are handmade by you in West Virginia, then you are elligible to be listed at WVMM.com. An exception may be in the case of recorded music, in which the cd or tape must be recorded and mixed in West Virginia but may be mastered elsewhere. We also discourage our Artisans from using commercial kits manufactured outside of West Virginia. See similar questions...

IT Craft is a mature company with over 6 years experience in IT industry. The corner stone of our success is deep understanding of customer needs and our ability to find the most effective solution in very complex and even extreme situations. Our philosophy and our values state that a strong sense of customer focus is what drives our company. See similar questions...

Explore the well-marked trails on your own, take a guided walking tour, hike, birdwatch, sit and relax, get ideas for your home garden from the Native Plant Display Garden, attend classes, lectures, workshops, field trips and special events, buy native plants and native plant seeds, take photographs, paint scenic views or wildflower close-ups. See similar questions...

Most of the Phyllostachys species tend to have edible qualities. While some can be eaten raw, others must be cooked, changing the water at least twice to remove the bitter taste. Usually, the new shoots of edible bamboos appear in the spring (March, April, and May) in the United States. During that period, there is a 3–4 week window of opportunity for cutting them. See similar questions...

Bamboo is notoriously difficult to identify more specifically than the species, unless there is something particularly remarkable about it. There are, by some estimates, as many as 2,000 kinds identified so far. Contacting a local chapter of the ABS and asking for help is probably the best idea. Be ready to answer a few questions. See similar questions...

Taking care of bamboo is easy. If it seems to be doing well enough without care, anything you add will be an improvement. Any fertilizer (but not weed-n-feed types) that is sold for grass would be appropriate, though manure from any animal, compost or fish fertilizer would be just fine. Many bamboo people recommend organic, slow-release formulas. Bamboo needs quite a bit of water so if you have a long dry spell during the summer and the leaves curl, it’s past time to water. See similar questions...

Bamboo is usually propagated by digging up part of a clump of existing bamboo and moving it elsewhere (see the next question.) The vast majority of propagating is done that way and it results in most plants of most varieties in the U.S. being clones. If you divide a bamboo plant and put it in a new location, it usually doesn’t do much for the first few growing seasons. See similar questions...

An aircraft is anything that flies. A lighter-than-air craft is any vehicle that flies because it is lighter than air. This includes (a) balloons and (b) airships, also known as dirigibles. Lighter-than-air craft are also known as aerostats, a term which is derived from the ancient greek words "aer" and "statos", i.e. standing or staying in the air. What makes a vehicle lighter than air, is the fact that it uses a lifting gas (i.e. See similar questions...

sharable link ] Please let me shed some light on the main focus of this thread. Crafting in Vanguard is quite interdependent. Every item you want to make will require at least one other trade's component. Currently this is balanced across all trades and that is the plan we are going forward with. Something else to consider is that we have the option of secondary trades. This is a feature I decided to add to help solve some of the issues brought up here. See similar questions...

Aaahhhh....everyone wants to make keepers out of them huh? Extend their usefulness well past the season? Click here and check out The Great Morel's Preserving page for lots of different ways to pack them away for an out-of-season rainy day. See similar questions...

The Florida Legislature established the Aquatic Preserve Program in Chapter 258, Florida Statute to protect state-owned submerged lands which have exceptional biological, aesthetic or scientific value. Forty-two sites along the coasts of Florida are designated as aquatic preserves. The major focus is on the protection of water quality. See similar questions...

State owned uplands that are purchased to assist with the protection of the water quality and/or the sovereign submerged lands of the state’s aquatic preserves and managed under the provisions of Chapter 253.03, Florida Statute are referred to as Buffer Preserves. DEP's Office of Coastal & Aquatic Managed Areas manages these upland areas adjacent to the aquatic preserves in a manner to protect the natural resources while providing for compatible public use of the property. See similar questions...