No. Build your trellis. They will not root that way.

Cat, if you haven't already, you should try posting this on both craigslist and a local freecyle site. Shelton has a kinda-freecycle group - Sheltonfreestuff - on yahoo. You might get a lot more response if you post this locally. Good luck! Dee

Hi, New to this and i don't think my previous message actually posted. Anyway, do you still have the bamboo poles? Working on a project to increase native bee habitat in Seattle and need bamboo to make a hundred or so bee houses, so if you still have the poles, I could use all of them. Thanks!

You could make char for the garden, but open fire is not the way to do it. The large 1-2.5 inch bamboo can stay in compost pile or garden soil for 2-3 years without composting. Bamboo is in the Grass family with bananas & corn, it is a wood that is used to make hardwood floors. So bamboo is a special class of woody grass. For hugelkultur bed it would work just fine, in my opinion. I cut & dry bamboo, then use it as garden stake for two years, then lay it out to rot & some times it take up to three more year to break down.