Plant SORGHUM In NO-DIG NO-WEED NO-WATER LAZY GARDEN. Even In WET SOIL. Get Grain FLOUR & SUGARCANE!

Growing SORGHUM is SO EASY! And it GIVES you SO MUCH! 1. Grain for flour for bread, cakes, cookies and more. 2. SUGARCANE. 3. Sorghum is a plant that STABILIZES the SOIL, PREVENTS EROSION, GROWS in WET SOIL AND is DROUGHT TOLERANT. 4. And if your plant got too big (the really thick stems are less good for sugarcane), you can keep the stems and dry them over winter, and use them like you would BAMBOO, for trellises to attract birds to your garden and do VERTICAL GARDENING, which by the way is the next benefit of sorghum: 5. Use sorghum, while it's growing, to do vertical gardening - use it as a trellis for beans and other vining plants. In this week's video, you are going to see me preparing and planting in two different CHINAMPA gardens, both of which are in EDGE HABITATS or EDGE ECOSYSTEMS, that is, close to the edge between, in this case, a forest, a prairie and a creek (triple edge). (EDGE HABITATS are where you have the most BIODIVERSITY in a NATURAL ECOSYSTEM). The soil is wet, and so many people think nothing will grow there. In fact, that's what we were told about the area where our main garden is when we first moved in!!! In the wettest spots, we've either put in raingardens, or, if we wanted to grow vegetables, we put in CHINAMPAS. If you want to know more about what a CHINAMPA is, check out our playlist with videos that talk, at least in part, about CHINAMPAS. I planted sorghum in four different areas, I will show you the other two areas as well, also types of CHINAMPAS, where I transplanted the sorghum prior to recording. I will also show you where I direct sowed some sorghum in our main garden, which is not a chinampa.There is lots to see in this week's video, including some surprising wildlife we saw and would like to share with you!
CORRECTION:
In this video, I mentioned at 8:33 that sorghum could cross pollinate with corn. It’s actually just the opposite. I was remembering incorrectly something I learned in my first year when planting broomcorn sorghum that I could put the broomcorn sorghum between my varieties of corn in order to make a wall between them so that the varieties of corn wouldn’t cross pollinate.