Category: Gardening

How fast does bamboo actually grow?

According to Wikipedia, bamboo plants are one of the fastest growing species of plants in the world. The reports of growth rates up to 35 inches (about 1 meter) per day are nothing short of amazing. But as with all “up to” statements, presumably this is a particular species found somewhere else, and grown under…


Edible wild plants

Praew has spent quite a bit of time recently going around the land and cataloguing the various plants that are growing wild. Since the land was used for agriculture a few decades back, I doubt if any of these plants are truly “wild”. But they clearly aren’t cultivated plants, either. The most interesting part to…


Wood Chipper and Leaf Shredder

Yesterday, Praew and I drove to the other side of Bangkok to check out a business that sells wood chippers (among other things). The place was quite interesting. It looked like a 3 storey tall family owned warehouse of equipment. The lift (elevator) was large, industrial, steel, very slow, had that old fashioned kind of…