Are you looking for an easy way to grow edible bamboo? In this video, discover a sweet bamboo species that’s perfect for your garden, even if you’re just starting out! Learn about planting sweet bamboo, how to harvest delicious bamboo shoots, and why this variety is a fantastic natural food source. We’ll cover everything from its unique sweet flavor to how to prepare edible bamboo shoots for your meals – you can even eat them raw!
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And my wife just recently ordered some new bamboo for me to plant and we’ve put it down here at the back of our section near the canal. It’s the beginning of the rainy season so it’s the right time to plant. But why another variety of bamboo you might wonder? Well this is an edible variety of bamboo. Bamboo is terrific for eating, just the young shoots though, but not every type of bamboo. This is a bamboo variety, I can’t get the specific name, check out this link here I’ll explain why. But it is one that is well known in Thailand, a sweet bamboo that is fabulous for eating. This comes from Isaan province. It’ll grow 4-5 metres tall this variety and it is quite prolific when it’s the beginning of the rainy season like it is now. The next season and for years afterwards we will have a lot of bamboo shoots to harvest and this is, as I said, it’s called sweet bamboo for a reason because it’s really sweet. And apparently for this variety you can even eat the new shoots raw without cooking them. However boiling them, steaming them, stir frying them, adding them to a carrier are always that people prepare this type of bamboo and other types of bamboo for eating as well. Bamboo is quite interesting because it takes on the flavour of other ingredients, so if you’re cooking some chilli or some other spices, some other herbs with it, the bamboo will absorb some of that but retain its own sweet flavour as well. And it’s got a lovely texture, it’s usually a little bit crisp, a little bit crunchy even if it’s been steamed or boiled, so it really is a fantastic food source that is completely natural and like any type of bamboo, pretty easy to grow, grows in the loamy, sort of sandy soil. It’s going to need a little bit of watering, we’re just at the beginning of the rainy season and the rains are coming sort of spasmodically and a little bit slowly but once it’s taken we’ll hardly have to pay any attention to it whatsoever except for when we come to harvest our bamboo for eating. Now if you’d like to know more details about this bamboo and other types of bamboo that you can use for eating, please check out our website, I’ll leave a link in the description below and if you’d like to learn more about bamboo for building, for construction and bamboo for things like furniture making and craft, please check out these videos next. Thanks very much for watching.
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I think this is the type we planted last year at this time. They're looking well ESTABLISHED and ready for this coming rain season. I like the sweet sticky rice you can buy that is cooked inside a bamboo shoot. The kind you peel down the sides like a banana peel to get to the rice….. ah-loi.
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I'd be planting Bamboo along that Khlong (canal) too! With the floods we've been having, every root counts to keep the soil. We've got an (usually dry) Khlong RIGHT by our house, I can't tell you why my wife's dad built the place so near the canal but I spend a LOT of time and energy keeping the house from sliding into it when the big rains come. (like, in a few days.)