[basjoos]

I'll be planting some new potato beds this weekend. Also continuing to thin out the bamboo groves to provide trellis poles for the garden. But the poles will first make a short visit to the sheep pastures for the sheep to browse and remove the leaves before I before I move them to the garden. The bamboo leaves provide good fresh fodder for them at this time of year when the pasture grasses have been mostly grazed down and they would otherwise be eating hay. By the time I need the poles in a few weeks to a few months from now they'll be leafless and partly dried.