Date: Saturday,
January 17, 2004 mark
your calendars!
NEW! also
Sunday, January 18
Update: Yes
it is raining, and it will rain some more, but the
work day and dig will be held as scheduled.
Be prepared to get wet and muddy. Bring something
good for the pot luck lunch!!
sm 1/16/2004
This info may change at any
time, so be sure to check back.
Grove Work Lunch
Digging Plants Costs
Other Stuff
Kinder and Mary Len Chambers
(254) 593-4012 TxBooGuru@aol.com
or kinmary@aol.com
LOCATION
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Buckholts is about 25 miles SE of Temple, TEXAS
The following map is for when you get close!
DRIVING
DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOUTH (AUSTIN AREA)
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(These instructions were corrected 12-22-03)
Take I-35 to Jarrell & take the Hwy 487 exit
Turn right onto 487
Continue on # 487 to the caution light in Bartlett
. . . . about 10 miles
At the caution light, turn left on to Hwy 95
Continue about 5 miles and turn right on FM.
2268. There will be a large auto wrecking yard on your right just before
you get to #2268. If you end up in Holland, you went too far.
You will be going East on #2268, for about 10
miles
At the "T" with # 437, turn Right and continue
about 1/2 mile, to a bright yellow farm house on your right
Just past that yellow farmhouse, turn left onto
County Road #406. The road is marked with the standard TxDot signs, just
before you reach it.
Stay on # 406 (a gravel road), for about 4 miles,
and cross the Little River on the NEW concrete bridge. (Any who desire,
may want to take pictures of the old iron bridge, built on 1909, and now
is designated as a "walking Bridge" only.)
After you cross the river, go about 300-400 yards
to the large electric sub station on the right. Turn right, just past the
substation and follow the gravel lane to the Chambers' house. You cannot
see the house from the road, but you will be passing through several clumping
bamboos on either side of the lane.
DIRECTIONS
FROM THE NORTH:: DALLAS OR WACO, ETC.
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Take I-35 to Temple, TX and turn left (east)
onto Hwy #36 (the sign will show "To Cameron").
Stay on #36, THROUGH Rogers . . . . about 10
miles
About 3 miles past Rogers you will pass UNDER
the RR underpass
Then pass a TxDot picnic area on the right, and
IMMEDIATELY after that, you will turn RIGHT onto CR #104 (Up and over the
RR track, onto the county gravel Road)
Continue (south) on #104 for about 4 to 4½
mi. to a "T" with CR 106. There may not be a sign here, but Kinder will
try to have markers up CR 406 turnoff, it is easy to miss but is the only
"T."
Turn Right onto # 106 and proceed about ½
mile to the Electric Substation on the east side of the Road.
Turn LEFT into the gravel lane, just at the north
side of the electric substation
Follow the lane to the Chambers' House. You cannot
see the house from the road, but you will be passing through several clumping
bamboos on either side of the lane.
DIRECTIONS
FROM THE EAST OR WEST
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Get a map, find Holland or Rogers, and do your
best with the directions above!
GROVE WORK Return to top
Grove cleaning in the morning begins at 8:30 a.m.
We will be cleaning groves of Phyllostachys bambusoides, P. bambusoides 'Castillon', P. congesta (possibly) P. decora, P. nigra 'Henon', P. rubromarginata, P. vivax, & P. 'unknown'
All poles will be divided up among the
grove workers to be taken home for free.
Lunch plans Return to top
A LARGE pot of beans will be cooking
in the house.
A couple of briskets will be ready,
along with a 'tip' jar if you want to pitch in a buck or two for
the meat.
Bring a dish and make it a pot
luck lunch.
Bring your own drinks.
After lunch, we dig, in the same groves which were cleaned.. Return to top
Readily available bamboo varieties are:
Phyllostachys bambusoides, P. decora, P.
rubromarginata, & P. vivax
Very limited bamboo varieties are:
P. bambusoides 'Castillon', P. congesta
(possibly), P. nigra 'Henon', & P. 'unknown'
Several Bambusa varieties are available if you want to chip away at large clumps of them, but this isn't a very good time of year to 'dig' those.
There may be a few shoots to dig in an area where P. bambusoids and P. viridis have grown together. You take your chances on which species any one shoot is.
Bring plenty of dirt to fill in the holes you dig!
If you forget to bring dirt, there will be dirt available on site for
$2.00 for enough for you to fill every 5 gal hole you dig.
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SEE THE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT DIRT for all plants that are dug!
Members of ABS and TBS get a discount. For $40 you can join both groups on the spot if you are not a member. Your new membership will be good through 2004.
ABS and TBS members get a special price discount. For those who work 2 hours, you can dig one 5 gal plant for free, and for 4 hours of grove work you can dig two 5 gal plants for free.
In the area where P. bambusoids and P. viridis have grown together, you can dig the small shoots for $7 each.
Additional plants for members are $15 for each 5 gal plant you dig. Bigger plants are more $$$.
Extra Special price discount for members if you agree to dig plants and grow them as part of the TBS Plant Stewardship Program. For those, 5 gal plants are only $5 each. For more information on this program click here . Steve Muzos is the coordinator of the TBS Stewardship program, so contact him if you have questions..
For non-members, there
are no free plants. Each 5 gal plant that you dig is $25.
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Bring your own water and sharpened
tools - - - pruning saws, shovels, spades, slammers, loppers, pruning
shears, gloves, etc.
Also, bring burlap or sheets or pots for your
dug pants. If you will have an open truck, be sure to bring something to
cover the plants for the trip home.
If you are feeling adventurous and want to camp there Friday and/or Saturday night, there is water and electricity by the old trailer house, and plenty of room to camp. The inside of the trailer house is storage and serves as home to several non-human critters, but does have a toilet..
These groves may have poison ivy (leafless
but still poisonous) and smilax (AKA cat briar,
thorny vine, briar, #@*!@# vine, etc.).
LOOK FOR MORE DETAILS LATER!
Kinder and Mary Len are providing the location, but for more information, please contact Steve Muzos at gardentex@hotmail.com
Last updated January 16, 2004