Just curious, has anyone tried using bamboo as a tree in their orchard garden? What about hemp? I know traditionally such gardens use fruit or nut
trees, and the syntropic agroforestry model uses banana trees, but I've been thinking about what else could be used in such a system, and both bamboo and hemp are useful plants that might work nicely in my climate (zone 8b). Regarding bamboo, I was specifically thinking of either mosa bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) or Chinese timber bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii), both of which are clumping timber varieties which won't get as big as possible in my climate. Also, I know that the way that bamboo grows would require some adjustments to the garden arrangement, but I'm just kind of thinking about it right now. Hemp would be easier, and it could be grown as an annual - in fact, it would HAVE to be, to prevent it from going to seed and taking the whole place over. But it grows big, produces a lot of biomass, and has a lot of uses. So I'm just curious to see if anyone has worked either of these plants into this kind of system before, and what their
experience was.
