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Sugarcane has lots of positives:

1) Very easy to grow and propagate . . . great for brown thumbs
2) It looks cool, kinda like bamboo with longer leaves
3) If you grow it outside a tropical zone, your neighbors will refer to you as “eccentric”
4) You can eat it (or make juice from it). Yummy
5) Slicing the stalks into segments lengthwise makes them into great skewers for bbq’ing shrimp. Also yummy
6) Makes a good privacy screen to shield your crazy activities from the neighbors. Not yummy, but useful

It also has a couple negatives:

1) The leaves are sharp. Don’t plant a field of sugarcane and then run through it "nekkid" . . . you’ll be sorry!
2) Occasional dry leaf removal is required (see note above, use gloves and long sleeves)
3) Ants like it too (plant it away from the house)
4) Starting your own residential sugar plantation and becoming a sugar baron may make neighbors jealous.
It grows to a height of 8-10 feet and if planting in the spring will mature at the end of the summer. It can be planted in the spring about the same time as corn, and has similar growth habits, so plant it as you would corn. In the fall time, you gather the stalks of the cane and squeeze the juice and boil it down for the sorghum syrup. It is a great opportunity for you to try something nice, and for those that have children, they will get to see from growing and harvest, and after cooking down the juices, the sweet taste of the syrup.
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PROPAGATION:
Sugar cane (Saccharum spp.) is a member of the grass family that thrives in tropical areas around the world. When the leaves are removed, sugar cane resembles another giant of the grass family, bamboo. In tropical climates, sugar cane is easy to propagate and grow; plants reaching 6 to 20 feet in height. Propagation by cuttings should be done when the weather is warm and expected temperatures will remain above 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
1
Lay the piece of sugar cane on a flat surface and saw it into 6-inch sections. Each piece should have one or more rings around the cane.

2
Measure the width of the sugar cane pieces and add 4 inches to that measurement. Use the hoe to dig a trench that deep and long enough so that all the pieces, when set in the trench horizontally, will fit, end-to-end.

3
Lay the sugar cane pieces horizontally in the trench and cover them with soil.
4
Water the area until the soil is saturated to a depth of 10 inches and keep it moist, but not soggy, until the sugar cane pieces sprout. This should occur within three to four weeks.
Use the above instructions the 2nd year after planting from seed the first year!
Aug 18th, 2012 at 2:52:55 AM PDT by

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