I live in Trinidad 🇹🇹 (Caribbean) sugar cane loves water….. if you give the sugar cane a lot of water it will grow fatter and softer canes. If shoots as a thin cane it will remain thin (not fatten later) if it shoots fat oooo you are in for a treat. Mother encouraged chewing the canes as it (fibers) cleans your teeth from plague ….. sometime you chew tooo much and your teeth can start to edge (SQUEAKY CLEAN LOL) ….. I can goo onnn and onnn mate… but this comment would be too …. Long (pun intended)
My dad was a North Texas farm boy. (During the Great Depression) One of their cash crops was sugar cane, or rather the cooked down syrup from sugar cane. His family had a farm that was not irrigated, so they were considered dry land farmers. Their primary cash crops were sugar cane, peanuts & dent corn. The farmers in the local area depended upon itinerant sugar cane processors. They had the equipment to squeeze the juice from the sugar cane crops & the farmers cooked it down into syrup. The guys who squeezed the sugar cane traveled from town to town, processing the sugar cane, taking a share of the finished syrup as payment for their services. The squeezed sugar canes were then fed to the livestock. Nothing was wasted. Then, of course, they had their kitchen garden where they grew crops to feed the family. (Corn, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, beans, squash, etc) They also raised hogs as a cash crop. So, they had hogs, chickens, a couple of milk cows & mules to pull the plow. My siblings & I grew up hearing stories about life on a dry land farm during the Great Depression. No electricity, no running water, no irrigation, etc. My dad was the youngest child. Because of that he never had a new pair of shoes or new clothing until he outgrew his two older brothers & their hand-me-downs at the age of 16. I grew up gnawing on partially peeled sugar cane sticks. It was sold in grocery stores in foot long segments. We considered it quite a treat.
This is a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing. My family also came from a poor farming background 2 generations ago, unfortunately my parents Decided to be city folk and became university professors and doctors. But now I'm going back to my farming roots by growing all kinds of veggies and keeping chickens. Love growing stuff. Plus, it's really good for the soul. And sugar cane is very well known in China too so it'll once again be like a blast from the past for me.
For gardeners who want to grow their own sweeteners but live in a zone that is too cold for sugar cane, they might want to try growing sorghum. Sorghum can be grown in colder climates because they have a shorter 'days to maturity' (life cycle) than sugar cane. Sorghum can be squeezed for the sweet juice that is then cooked down to a syrup. Also, sorghum produces edible seeds that can be ground into a gluten free flour to be used for pancakes & some baked goods & can also be popped like popcorn. Another alternative would be to grow sugar beets. The best beets to use for sugar production are the white beets. They are sweeter & not as earthy tasting as red beets. (Beet root, for you guys from the British Empire...) Another alternative would be to take up bee keeping.
@@GeomancerHTread somewhere that the Japanese process hydrangea flowers to make a naturally sweet tea. Maybe this tea can then be freezedried into a powder sweetener.
Sugarcane needs care too. To get bigger thicker canes, you remove older or dried leaves further down the canes. You then tie them or stake them to each other so they grow taller. I'm from Papua New Guinea. Over here, we peel the cane with our teeth, bite off chunks, chew and suck the juice out of the cane.
Quando eu era criança, nós primos e primas se juntavam ao redor de fogueiras a noite, torcendo e chupando esse Suco maravilhoso , de gomos de cana! Tbm faziam se os melaços pra comerem no café da manhã, com farinha de milho branca. Quão saudáveis éramos!! Maravilha!
When I was living in India, I was traveling (via train and bus - that is fun!) I was getting sicker, (it was BAD). The bus made a stop at one point to pick up more people (yes, the bus was already full), I looked out the window and a man was handing out Sugar cane juice. I am telling you, it was what my body needed to get itself strong enough till I arrived at my location. sugar cane juice is amazing!!!
@@slingalong Sugar was first cultivated in India , Europeans wanted to reach India due to its products …..they got to know there are grass in India which is sweet . Sugar comes from Sanskrit word sharkara, and candy from Sanskrit word Kalkand crystallized sugar. When they eventually got hands to the knowledge they brought African slaves and indentured labors from India and Asia to grow in other colonies ….free knowledge, free resource , free labor any theif can become rich overnight
I also was in India but when I got that sugar cane juice from the side of the road it made me sick and nauseous. That just because it was India and they don’t have cleanliness like we have in the united states
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THE RODENT FLY OUT OF THE CONTAINER AT 15:12 DURING MARK'S 5TH TIP so funny. I guess everyone has a sweet tooth. Cheers from Central Florida
@@KaseyKessler you have a programmed mind. Feces is fertilizer. Its natural and organic. The world is only sterile inside a lab....and that is not a self sustaining ecosystem, like the great outdoors. The big picture is; it takes ALL living things to keep balance in nature. You dont eat the roots, only the juice from the stalk. What do you fear? You sound like a city slicker.
As a child (in the 40's) our Florida home property was divided by informal sugar cane "hedges". I still delight in the memory of spontaneously chewing on canes!
I remember this too! This is why when I finally moved back to FL, I planted this on my little farm and it is doing great! This was a treat for us as kids and we loved it!
I remember when my dad would buy a small stalk of sugar cane and cut it up for all us girls to try. For those who live in the northern US, there is a variety that can tolerate our climate (to 6a) it is called Saccharum arundinaceum. I am so excited to see if I can find any next spring to start growing it.❤
Unfortunately while that variety is technically a sugar cane, it really doesn't really produce any sugar. It is often grown for fiber but has no value for sugar.
It might be worth to mention that some varieties of green sugarcane also have tiny hairs that might get into your skin and be very painful/bothersome so using gloves is a must. I learnt this from my neighbors dad as he used to grow lots of sugarcane for sale. 🙏🏽
Some varieties of bamboo have this like the ones on my property, and they can be very painful if contacted with the skin and face. They are also very hard to get out of clothing as well!
We have a very close family friend who grows 24 month sugar cane and he has 7000 acres of it and he never had this problem. Also in our country we burn the field when it's ready because it cost alot too have the sugar mills remove the leaves burn it first and then those small painful things disappear. And also those are mainly found in the leaves.
We occasionally chewed on raw sugar cane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida when I was a kid- 1970's. We also ate raw coconut - expending more calories to open them than we could possibly consume.
In the early to mid 60’s I chewed a lot of sugar cane. My uncle grew a small patch of it just for me, and we’d take it home after visiting in the summer. Our local fruit stand sold stalks for 5¢ or 10¢. The downside was this was an outdoor treat because it was messy, and mama wouldn’t always let me take one of her knives out.
I'm from Trinidad but live in California. I grew up eating sugarcane and loved it. Fast forward to present day life in California where we have 2 sugarcane patches successfully growing. Even introduced it to my neighbor and they love it. Thanks for the video highlighting the sugarcane and it's many uses😊
My daddy grew this when I was a boy. He would cut joints of it, peel it and we absolutely loved to chew on it. I helped each year to plant it. Sometimes he would save the eyelets and we would plant those with the shoot facing up, sometimes if he had stalks that were drying up that we hadn't chewed he would make a furrow and lay the entire stalk in it and cover with soil, no need to cut , saving time. Thanks for the video, it certainly took me back 50 years to my childhood in East Texas 😊
I have a small plot of sugarcane. Bought a couple canes from a local grocery store and put it in the ground. Growing great. Im in far southwest AZ, and its hot here.
@teasandtreasures8692 Yes, sugar cane can be grown in Phoenix. From what I understand, sugar cane likes temperatures of 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When temperatures get over 100 degrees F use shade cloths over the sugar cane. I use shade cloth for many plants when temperatures get over 100 degrees F. There is plenty of information on the Internet on how to grow sugar cane in Phoenix ( and other places) and many many sites to buy sugar cane cuttings.
@@jrg4313 thanks for the information I will look it up I've not had much luck out here with this heat. The past few Summers I've lost several rose bushes and rose trees, also some citrus trees it's been really hard on the plants.
Just chewed a foot long sugar cane stick this afternoon. Brings a lot of memories 35 yrs ago in a rural place in Philippines. The variety we have has bigger stalks and has a purple redish skin. Just plant it a sunny place and it will grow crazy fast...
Back in the 50s I lived in Conway, South Carolina. I was an Air Force brat so we did not have a farm, but I had local friends who would bring sugar cane to school. It was quite a treat and a fond memory for me.
I remember in '15 when I went to Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and I noticed the sugar for the coffee was huge, tinted cubes. My sister in law showed me the plants in her backyard with the poinsettias and lime trees. My other sister in law made a drink with fresh caramel and the sugarcane and milk to sell. That was 100% better than a Starbucks Latte 😅 They also had fresh, unprocessed milk so my sister in law made yogurt everyday w/fresh fruit from the market. ❤ Too much processed stuff here in the city. 😢
Okay I’m getting a sugar cane bed to screen the neighbour’s backyard. Love your work Mark. When you sung at the beginning it melted my heart 😂 always lovely to see your face!
Great video. Here in Brazil we love sugarcane juice, called "Garapa" in some places, and organic sugar, syrup and the sweet bricks called "Rapadura" are also very popular products made from sugarcane.
@@roidroid Maybe there is a link between these words since Garapa is a relatively new word and the origin is not known. It could be a coincidence but it sounds like it was a misspelling of Grappa.
We grow it in our gardens in Dallas, Texas. It provides the perfect amount of dappled shade for our tomatoes and other plants during the scorching summer heat
Big 👍here from someone who has stopped consuming refined sugar completely! I intend to cook my own jaggery or molasses and better yet grow my own sugarcane in my backyard 😁
You can make piloncillo/panela with sugar cane. It is a very strong and rich sweetener, while still being completely natural In México we love to make Café de Olla with it
I LOVE that the Grow a Ton series is still on-going! Please make more of these, maybe about some herbs, that's been a while. Or a ton of green onions. Cheers from Germany!
As a kid in Florida during the mid 60's & 70's, we would go down to Hollywood FL each winter to see our Gramps & Gram. We would always stop at the Sugar Cane fields for freshly harvested canes and Cane syrup.. We always knew when we saw the smoke from them burning the fields that they were open for business. There is nothing like fresh Sugar Cane . What Great memories.
Howdy Mark, I watch all your videos and want to grow everything on our homestead. This year has been our best year so far for the garden. We might have grown enough onions to be self sufficient on onions until next year harvest. Even with something cheap to buy onions it is a great feeling knowing we were able to grow enough to provide for ourself. Keep up the great work. Semper Fi
Sugarcane is considered an auspicious crop to celebrate harvest festivals by several asian communities. We as tamils celebrate our harvest festival by having our house decorated with canes tied all over the house entrance as thanks giving to sun god. Incidentally it was for the labour required for cane fields that many Asians were brought in as slaves by the British to work in cane fields throughout the world like ( Fiji / Mauritius / queensland Australia ). Nice video that makes one consider cultivating canes for the backyard.
The Government here in America did the same thing, bringing in the cane frog, down here in Florida. No natural predators has created the same disastrous nightmares as in Australia.
Yep. They are nasty things. The most dangerous words in the world is "I'm from the Government, and here to help. Paraphrasing from Ronald Reagan. Truth.
We grow both on our farm in Thailand. I much prefer the purples over the greens. Great for chewing on and excellent additions for Mojitos...Fresh limes from our trees, mint from the garden, cane sugar syrup, and a purple cane stick to stir....along with the rum and soda of course. Magic on a hot day.
Hi Mark, fellow Aussie here. This is great! Thanks. 👏 I recently did a video about using sugar cane mulch in the veggie garden, but noting the downside was the expensive cost per bag (where I am anyway). Someone commented that you just made a video on growing it and that I should try to grow it myself to use as mulch. What a great idea. I think I will give it a go. Thanks Mark. - Kelly 👍
I bought some sugarcane and planted them along my fenceline for shelter from the weather, as I live in cold Melbourne🥶 they are looking green and healthy at the moment. Fingers crossed I’ll get them in summer to eat🤞 You answered my questions about feeding them. Thank you for sharing as usual 👍
I grew up in south Florida near the Everglades. Wild sugar cane grew in several places. While fishing- Dad would cut a cane, partially peel it and let us girls chew on it and suck on the juices. I love sugar cane. Great memories of being a kid fishing and target practicing with my Dad and sisters. ❤️
You have made me very interested in the idea of growing some sugar cane. I love sweets but have been wanting to lessen my intake of highly processed food.
This Video is AMAZING Mark!!! You are really great at RUclips and seIf-sufficiency. I learned a lot, whilst also being really entertained. 🙂👍 Looking foward to growing it!
I have eaten raw sugar cane in Madeira (Portugal) and it was so nice. Not as sweet as I thought it would be, but quite nice to chew on. I also drank sugar cane juice in Singapore and really liked it. The real thing is so much better than any sugary drink.
I get the big bales of Australian sugar cane mulch from Bunnings - it's awesome. It breaks down into the soil within 18 months. Only problems are it can get hydrophobic if you lay it on too thick, and when it's dry it's VERY VERY flammable.
This is something forgotten. My father gave us kids pieces of the stalk when I grew up. We looked forward to it. Haven’t seen any for years. My climate is too short for growth and I’m short on space. Thanks for the reminder of a great memory.
My Dad grew sugarcane. We love it, just the other day I moved back to our property and want to grow, grow, grow. I am excited and blessed.❤ Thank you for this feature. I need a saw like that. Blessing to you Sir.
I got some purple canes off a friend a couple of months ago. It's now sprouted and this will be my first year growing can, i'm looking forward to growing it. Thanks for the tips. Great vid.
I live almost right on the polar circle in Finland and tjere are so many things you grow that just is not possible to grow here. but I keep watching you because you are so inspiring! keep up the good work
my dad's family used to grow it abundantly in north Florida when he was growing up. i added it to my farm about six years ago as a privacy hedge and windbreak along the road. when it dies back in winter i chop it for the cows. we have a local living museum that has an old time sugarcane mill with the big cast iron bowl for boiling it down. they process everything around Thanksgiving in November and sell the juice by the gallon. i wish i'd bought some this year but i didn't make it there in time. i did however buy a bottle of the syrup for my dad who LOVES it and misses having it. it's funny because.... he's a beekeeper. he has a lifetime supply of honey... maybe even three lifetimes but he loves that syrup lol
Step zero: Don't live in the UK :( EDIT: Yes, I am aware there are alternatives. I know you can juice corn stalks, grow sugar beets etc. This is a joke comment. Those sugar alternatives are also less cost effective than buying sugar, and the end result isn't as pure and tends to have an after taste. For every 1KG of sugar beet you grow, you will get around 100-150g of sugar.
@@melissahansen6199 Depending on how long your seasons are, you might be able to do what I'm doing this year, which is growing "sorghum". I'm testing it out this season to see how it works out, but once you take the grain from the top, you can apparently juice the stems and do a boil and get decent quality syrup. They call it the "pancake plant" in the south of the US, because it makes both the flour and syrup at once. Might be worth a shot? If you want good grain, grow the white variety, if you want good syrup, grow the black one.
You can grow it here with great difficulty but it's not really worth it, pineapples however are very fun to grow in the UK and i would highly recommend trying it.
Have you ever tried sweet sorghum canes (sorgo)? It's a traditional treat here in South Africa, it's an annual with thinner canes that we grow from seed and is gaining popularity again alongside sugar cane
We used to make molasses from super cane at my grandparents. It would be a process that took all day, and we all got together at theor house and made a fun day out of it.
Hoping to find plants/seeds here in Britain to enable me to grow sugarcane and I also love the idea to use it’s spent foliage for mulching. Excellent as always Mark 👍👍🇦🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺🇬🇧
Wow, I never considered growing cane. Growing up, my grandfather grew it on his small farm in south Georgia (US) so we always had cane syrup and he'd give us pieces of cane to chew on. But I have not seen anyone growing it since then (the 70's). I'm currently too far north I think but will be moving south again when I retire and I will definitely give it a try.
I see you with your saw, my mother gave me a cane knife for a birthday or Christmas gift or whatever. The handiest place i found to keep it handy was under the car seat. Putting a saw under the car seat would be just silly.
[QLD] Our landlord just "trimmed" the propertys' trees... to ground level 👻. But this video has me considering planting SUGARCANE as the replacement privacy screen. 12 months, hell yeah. I hardly need it's FULL-height for the screening to be adequate, and can also eat it.
The best video of yours I've ever seen!! Thank you very much for this great information! This is the first and ONLY video I've ever seen about sugar cane. I'm not in the tropics, but we have a very long, hot summer here, about six months, so maybe this could work here! Super helpful info, thanks so much 🏆👏😃
I'm zone 4-5 here in northern Idaho so no sugarcane for me. But I do have a lot of success growing annual stevia patches. Sugar beets also do very well up here. I love seeing all your awesome growing techniques and cool plants. I was just contemplating growing a few pawpaws since they're the closest I can get to a tropical plant haha.
There's a variety of sugarcane called pitpit, which is grown for a fluffy flowerhead instead of sugary juice. It's supposedly really similar to maize or sorghum.
Whole sugars are actually great for you as long as you balance your macros. The best diets have whole, organic and unprocessed foods with meats that are wild caught/hunted or grain free, grass fed and pasture raised.
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G'day Everyone, feel free to share your opinion on eating or growing sugarcane below. Thanks for your support! Cheers :)
I live in Trinidad 🇹🇹 (Caribbean) sugar cane loves water….. if you give the sugar cane a lot of water it will grow fatter and softer canes. If shoots as a thin cane it will remain thin (not fatten later) if it shoots fat oooo you are in for a treat. Mother encouraged chewing the canes as it (fibers) cleans your teeth from plague ….. sometime you chew tooo much and your teeth can start to edge (SQUEAKY CLEAN LOL) ….. I can goo onnn and onnn mate… but this comment would be too …. Long (pun intended)
When I was a kid, my mom bought sugar cane and we chewed on it. Haven't seen it in stores for years.
How much $ for you to make a couple starts from your cane stalks and ship to us in US near Niagara Falls NYS??
…or Melbourne 😅
lol. I know. I moved to NZ over 30yrs ago. You can stick a twig in the ground here and it will grow. Sugar cane is my next try out!
My dad was a North Texas farm boy. (During the Great Depression) One of their cash crops was sugar cane, or rather the cooked down syrup from sugar cane. His family had a farm that was not irrigated, so they were considered dry land farmers. Their primary cash crops were sugar cane, peanuts & dent corn. The farmers in the local area depended upon itinerant sugar cane processors. They had the equipment to squeeze the juice from the sugar cane crops & the farmers cooked it down into syrup. The guys who squeezed the sugar cane traveled from town to town, processing the sugar cane, taking a share of the finished syrup as payment for their services. The squeezed sugar canes were then fed to the livestock. Nothing was wasted.
Then, of course, they had their kitchen garden where they grew crops to feed the family. (Corn, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, beans, squash, etc) They also raised hogs as a cash crop. So, they had hogs, chickens, a couple of milk cows & mules to pull the plow. My siblings & I grew up hearing stories about life on a dry land farm during the Great Depression. No electricity, no running water, no irrigation, etc. My dad was the youngest child. Because of that he never had a new pair of shoes or new clothing until he outgrew his two older brothers & their hand-me-downs at the age of 16.
I grew up gnawing on partially peeled sugar cane sticks. It was sold in grocery stores in foot long segments. We considered it quite a treat.
This is a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing. My family also came from a poor farming background 2 generations ago, unfortunately my parents Decided to be city folk and became university professors and doctors. But now I'm going back to my farming roots by growing all kinds of veggies and keeping chickens. Love growing stuff. Plus, it's really good for the soul. And sugar cane is very well known in China too so it'll once again be like a blast from the past for me.
Great story!
How interesting, thank u
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What’s the next depression going to look like with no local farms
For gardeners who want to grow their own sweeteners but live in a zone that is too cold for sugar cane, they might want to try growing sorghum. Sorghum can be grown in colder climates because they have a shorter 'days to maturity' (life cycle) than sugar cane. Sorghum can be squeezed for the sweet juice that is then cooked down to a syrup. Also, sorghum produces edible seeds that can be ground into a gluten free flour to be used for pancakes & some baked goods & can also be popped like popcorn.
Another alternative would be to grow sugar beets. The best beets to use for sugar production are the white beets. They are sweeter & not as earthy tasting as red beets. (Beet root, for you guys from the British Empire...)
Another alternative would be to take up bee keeping.
Great tips. Thank you for sharing.
Stevia is really easy to grow for anyone interested in a sweetener without calories.
@@GeomancerHTread somewhere that the Japanese process hydrangea flowers to make a naturally sweet tea. Maybe this tea can then be freezedried into a powder sweetener.
Is zone 7 in the USA to cold for sugar cane?
I've been trying to source sugar beets.
No joy thus far.
Stevia leaves are also tasty
Sugarcane needs care too. To get bigger thicker canes, you remove older or dried leaves further down the canes. You then tie them or stake them to each other so they grow taller. I'm from Papua New Guinea. Over here, we peel the cane with our teeth, bite off chunks, chew and suck the juice out of the cane.
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Quando eu era criança, nós primos e primas se juntavam ao redor de fogueiras a noite, torcendo e chupando esse Suco maravilhoso , de gomos de cana! Tbm faziam se os melaços pra comerem no café da manhã, com farinha de milho branca. Quão saudáveis éramos!! Maravilha!
Same here in South Asia!
When I was living in India, I was traveling (via train and bus - that is fun!) I was getting sicker, (it was BAD). The bus made a stop at one point to pick up more people (yes, the bus was already full), I looked out the window and a man was handing out Sugar cane juice. I am telling you, it was what my body needed to get itself strong enough till I arrived at my location. sugar cane juice is amazing!!!
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Sugar was first cultivated in India , Europeans wanted to reach India due to its products …..they got to know there are grass in India which is sweet . Sugar comes from Sanskrit word sharkara, and candy from Sanskrit word Kalkand crystallized sugar. When they eventually got hands to the knowledge they brought African slaves and indentured labors from India and Asia to grow in other colonies ….free knowledge, free resource , free labor any theif can become rich overnight
I also was in India but when I got that sugar cane juice from the side of the road it made me sick and nauseous. That just because it was India and they don’t have cleanliness like we have in the united states
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THE RODENT FLY OUT OF THE CONTAINER AT 15:12 DURING MARK'S 5TH TIP so funny. I guess everyone has a sweet tooth. Cheers from Central Florida
I remember eating sugar cane growing up in Texas in the early 70's
You’re not😂I literally want to comment only because I saw a rat jumping down😂😂😂
@@GabyWantsToKnowJesusMore 🤣Me too
I think that's why they had it in slow motion at that point?? Maybe? I don't know? You're thinking sweetness I'm thinking feces. Lol
@@KaseyKessler you have a programmed mind.
Feces is fertilizer. Its natural and organic. The world is only sterile inside a lab....and that is not a self sustaining ecosystem, like the great outdoors.
The big picture is; it takes ALL living things to keep balance in nature.
You dont eat the roots, only the juice from the stalk.
What do you fear? You sound like a city slicker.
As a child (in the 40's) our Florida home property was divided by informal sugar cane "hedges". I still delight in the memory of spontaneously chewing on canes!
In the 40's! You're in your 90's?
@@YOOTOOBjase 80s
I remember this too! This is why when I finally moved back to FL, I planted this on my little farm and it is doing great! This was a treat for us as kids and we loved it!
I remember when my dad would buy a small stalk of sugar cane and cut it up for all us girls to try.
For those who live in the northern US, there is a variety that can tolerate our climate (to 6a) it is called Saccharum arundinaceum. I am so excited to see if I can find any next spring to start growing it.❤
Hey, THANKS!! 😊
Unfortunately while that variety is technically a sugar cane, it really doesn't really produce any sugar. It is often grown for fiber but has no value for sugar.
It might be worth to mention that some varieties of green sugarcane also have tiny hairs that might get into your skin and be very painful/bothersome so using gloves is a must. I learnt this from my neighbors dad as he used to grow lots of sugarcane for sale. 🙏🏽
Good to know thanks
Some varieties of bamboo have this like the ones on my property, and they can be very painful if contacted with the skin and face. They are also very hard to get out of clothing as well!
We have a very close family friend who grows 24 month sugar cane and he has 7000 acres of it and he never had this problem. Also in our country we burn the field when it's ready because it cost alot too have the sugar mills remove the leaves burn it first and then those small painful things disappear. And also those are mainly found in the leaves.
We occasionally chewed on raw sugar cane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida when I was a kid- 1970's. We also ate raw coconut - expending more calories to open them than we could possibly consume.
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Just for the record, my rabbits love the Sugar Cane leaves! Cane for me and leaves for them!
Central Florida and the cane grows great!
I love when you post about these more tropic plants. A little vicarious living
In the early to mid 60’s I chewed a lot of sugar cane. My uncle grew a small patch of it just for me, and we’d take it home after visiting in the summer. Our local fruit stand sold stalks for 5¢ or 10¢. The downside was this was an outdoor treat because it was messy, and mama wouldn’t always let me take one of her knives out.
I'm from Trinidad but live in California. I grew up eating sugarcane and loved it. Fast forward to present day life in California where we have 2 sugarcane patches successfully growing. Even introduced it to my neighbor and they love it. Thanks for the video highlighting the sugarcane and it's many uses😊
Your neighbor didnt burn a cross in your yard? You must be in a weird place in california....
My daddy grew this when I was a boy. He would cut joints of it, peel it and we absolutely loved to chew on it.
I helped each year to plant it. Sometimes he would save the eyelets and we would plant those with the shoot facing up, sometimes if he had stalks that were drying up that we hadn't chewed he would make a furrow and lay the entire stalk in it and cover with soil, no need to cut , saving time.
Thanks for the video, it certainly took me back 50 years to my childhood in East Texas 😊
I have a small plot of sugarcane. Bought a couple canes from a local grocery store and put it in the ground. Growing great.
Im in far southwest AZ, and its hot here.
I'm in the Valley in Az. Where would I purchase sugar cane and will it grow in our high heat? phnx area?
@teasandtreasures8692
Yes, sugar cane can be grown in Phoenix.
From what I understand, sugar cane likes temperatures of 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When temperatures get over 100 degrees F use shade cloths over the sugar cane.
I use shade cloth for many plants when temperatures get over 100 degrees F.
There is plenty of information on the Internet on how to grow sugar cane in Phoenix ( and other places) and many many sites to buy sugar cane cuttings.
@@jrg4313 thanks for the information I will look it up I've not had much luck out here with this heat. The past few Summers I've lost several rose bushes and rose trees, also some citrus trees it's been really hard on the plants.
Thank you, from a New Mexican neighbor. Great to know!
Besides giving us good information, this gentleman is funnier than a comedy club entertainer.
One of my fondest childhood memories is chewing on freshly cut sugar cane and tasting that amazing juice. This is such a unique gardening video!
Sem dúvida tbm guardo essas lembranças!💖💖💖👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇧🇷
Just chewed a foot long sugar cane stick this afternoon. Brings a lot of memories 35 yrs ago in a rural place in Philippines. The variety we have has bigger stalks and has a purple redish skin. Just plant it a sunny place and it will grow crazy fast...
Back in the 50s I lived in Conway, South Carolina. I was an Air Force brat so we did not have a farm, but I had local friends who would bring sugar cane to school. It was quite a treat and a fond memory for me.
I remember in '15 when I went to Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and I noticed the sugar for the coffee was huge, tinted cubes. My sister in law showed me the plants in her backyard with the poinsettias and lime trees. My other sister in law made a drink with fresh caramel and the sugarcane and milk to sell. That was 100% better than a Starbucks Latte 😅 They also had fresh, unprocessed milk so my sister in law made yogurt everyday w/fresh fruit from the market. ❤ Too much processed stuff here in the city. 😢
Ya and people say cities are advanced... Give me some natural stuff any day.
That sounds wonderful!
Okay I’m getting a sugar cane bed to screen the neighbour’s backyard. Love your work Mark. When you sung at the beginning it melted my heart 😂 always lovely to see your face!
Great video.
Here in Brazil we love sugarcane juice, called "Garapa" in some places, and organic sugar, syrup and the sweet bricks called "Rapadura" are also very popular products made from sugarcane.
Weird. In Europe (& nations they immigrated to) we brew an alcoholic beverage called GRAPPA, made from the waste ingredients from grape production.
@@roidroid Maybe there is a link between these words since Garapa is a relatively new word and the origin is not known.
It could be a coincidence but it sounds like it was a misspelling of Grappa.
We grow it in our gardens in Dallas, Texas. It provides the perfect amount of dappled shade for our tomatoes and other plants during the scorching summer heat
Big 👍here from someone who has stopped consuming refined sugar completely! I intend to cook my own jaggery or molasses and better yet grow my own sugarcane in my backyard 😁
Sugar is sugar my friend
You have some of the most informative and useful videos of all my subscriptions on YT.
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I love how you provide so much thought and knowledge on your videos growing food. Thank you, Mark.
You can make piloncillo/panela with sugar cane. It is a very strong and rich sweetener, while still being completely natural
In México we love to make Café de Olla with it
I LOVE that the Grow a Ton series is still on-going! Please make more of these, maybe about some herbs, that's been a while. Or a ton of green onions. Cheers from Germany!
Brilliant - very helpful. Thank you very much from South Africa 🌍
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@@kingmufasa8929 Hey, hello over there 😁😁😁
As a kid in Florida during the mid 60's & 70's, we would go down to Hollywood FL each winter to see our Gramps & Gram. We would always stop at the Sugar Cane fields for freshly harvested canes and Cane syrup.. We always knew when we saw the smoke from them burning the fields that they were open for business. There is nothing like fresh Sugar Cane . What Great memories.
Brought up in Bundaberg and they used to grow tomatoes in the fallow paddocks between seasons.
Howdy Mark, I watch all your videos and want to grow everything on our homestead. This year has been our best year so far for the garden. We might have grown enough onions to be self sufficient on onions until next year harvest. Even with something cheap to buy onions it is a great feeling knowing we were able to grow enough to provide for ourself. Keep up the great work. Semper Fi
Truly, organic, homegrown onions are priceless. :)
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Sugarcane is considered an auspicious crop to celebrate harvest festivals by several asian communities. We as tamils celebrate our harvest festival by having our house decorated with canes tied all over the house entrance as thanks giving to sun god. Incidentally it was for the labour required for cane fields that many Asians were brought in as slaves by the British to work in cane fields throughout the world like ( Fiji / Mauritius / queensland Australia ). Nice video that makes one consider cultivating canes for the backyard.
Your singing caught me off guard. Truly a voice from the heavens.
The Government here in America did the same thing, bringing in the cane frog, down here in Florida.
No natural predators has created the same disastrous nightmares as in Australia.
Yep. They are nasty things. The most dangerous words in the world is "I'm from the Government, and here to help. Paraphrasing from Ronald Reagan. Truth.
We grow both on our farm in Thailand. I much prefer the purples over the greens. Great for chewing on and excellent additions for Mojitos...Fresh limes from our trees, mint from the garden, cane sugar syrup, and a purple cane stick to stir....along with the rum and soda of course. Magic on a hot day.
5:30 I could see the sweetness of the decaying stalks finding it's way into the fruit of those trees you've mulched.
That is not how mulch works. Plant roots cannot absorb large saccharide molecules.
@@teebob21However sugar molecules are great for earthworms and other micro organisms.
Hi Mark, fellow Aussie here. This is great! Thanks. 👏 I recently did a video about using sugar cane mulch in the veggie garden, but noting the downside was the expensive cost per bag (where I am anyway). Someone commented that you just made a video on growing it and that I should try to grow it myself to use as mulch. What a great idea. I think I will give it a go. Thanks Mark. - Kelly 👍
The food version of bamboo really cool
Now I'm wondering how pandas would react to sugar cane.
i am the panda now
I bought some sugarcane and planted them along my fenceline for shelter from the weather, as I live in cold Melbourne🥶 they are looking green and healthy at the moment. Fingers crossed I’ll get them in summer to eat🤞 You answered my questions about feeding them. Thank you for sharing as usual 👍
UPNY I've been wanting to grow this. New house new gardens. 6 raised beds. 7 Hopefully with this.
LETS GO
I grew up in south Florida near the Everglades. Wild sugar cane grew in several places. While fishing- Dad would cut a cane, partially peel it and let us girls chew on it and suck on the juices. I love sugar cane.
Great memories of being a kid fishing and target practicing with my Dad and sisters. ❤️
You have made me very interested in the idea of growing some sugar cane. I love sweets but have been wanting to lessen my intake of highly processed food.
This Video is AMAZING Mark!!!
You are really great at RUclips and seIf-sufficiency. I learned a lot, whilst also being really entertained. 🙂👍 Looking foward to growing it!
I never thought of growing sugar cane in a raised bed. I've heard of a Vietnamese sugar cane juice, but haven't tried it. Thanks for the great video!
I have eaten raw sugar cane in Madeira (Portugal) and it was so nice. Not as sweet as I thought it would be, but quite nice to chew on. I also drank sugar cane juice in Singapore and really liked it. The real thing is so much better than any sugary drink.
Mark: I'll cut some sugarcanes here!!
Mouse be like: I am going to get the hell out of here before I am cut into pieces!
Love Love Love Sugar cane~ I grew up chewing on it in Florida. Yummmmm
I love this guy. 😆 Using Sugar cane for privacy is gold.
I get the big bales of Australian sugar cane mulch from Bunnings - it's awesome. It breaks down into the soil within 18 months. Only problems are it can get hydrophobic if you lay it on too thick, and when it's dry it's VERY VERY flammable.
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This is something forgotten. My father gave us kids pieces of the stalk when I grew up. We looked forward to it. Haven’t seen any for years. My climate is too short for growth and I’m short on space. Thanks for the reminder of a great memory.
My Dad grew sugarcane. We love it, just the other day I moved back to our property and want to grow, grow, grow. I am excited and blessed.❤ Thank you for this feature. I need a saw like that.
Blessing to you Sir.
We used to buy sugar cane from the store when I was a kid. This video brings back memories.
How sweet I it is to hear your happy voice!!!❤ Thank you for making learning easy and fun.
I got some purple canes off a friend a couple of months ago. It's now sprouted and this will be my first year growing can, i'm looking forward to growing it. Thanks for the tips. Great vid.
I live almost right on the polar circle in Finland and tjere are so many things you grow that just is not possible to grow here. but I keep watching you because you are so inspiring! keep up the good work
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So far i think im going to be successful with sorghum this year here in zone 6. Definitely want to try cane next year.
That little tune sung at the beginning of the video was worth the like! Love your videos!
Where I live, sugarcane farms are abundant. Always so good chewing them
Hi Mark. Thanks for the great video. I’ve just ordered my first lot of sugarcane for my garden since watching and being inspired. ❤
💚 a friend of mine has a big clump of sugar cane. Cuts it in lengths for his cows to eat during winter.
Your singing voice is surprisingly comforting
my dad's family used to grow it abundantly in north Florida when he was growing up. i added it to my farm about six years ago as a privacy hedge and windbreak along the road. when it dies back in winter i chop it for the cows.
we have a local living museum that has an old time sugarcane mill with the big cast iron bowl for boiling it down. they process everything around Thanksgiving in November and sell the juice by the gallon. i wish i'd bought some this year but i didn't make it there in time. i did however buy a bottle of the syrup for my dad who LOVES it and misses having it.
it's funny because.... he's a beekeeper. he has a lifetime supply of honey... maybe even three lifetimes but he loves that syrup lol
I remember drinking fresh sugarcane in Cuba and it was so refreshing even though it has warm as
A balance on everything is the key.. ❤😊
i plant many lemongrass around sugarcane. the dead leaf of sugarcane is the favorite nest for cobra snake.
I love sugarcane juice smoothies with Hawaiian POG juice. Pineapple or passionfruit, orange, and guava juice.
That sounds delicious!
When I was a little kid living in Louisiana, we use to eat sugar canes once in awhile.
I've been looking into buying some cuttings to start growing my own. This video just made up my mind 💜 thank you 💜
Wonderful. I am growing Sugarcane in containers in the difficult climate of London in the UK.
Grew up with sugar cane and made molasses with it. So fantastic tasting when chewing on it. Great video!!
That intro earned a sweet thumbs up 👍
Step zero: Don't live in the UK :(
EDIT: Yes, I am aware there are alternatives. I know you can juice corn stalks, grow sugar beets etc. This is a joke comment. Those sugar alternatives are also less cost effective than buying sugar, and the end result isn't as pure and tends to have an after taste. For every 1KG of sugar beet you grow, you will get around 100-150g of sugar.
Or Denmark :(
@@melissahansen6199 Depending on how long your seasons are, you might be able to do what I'm doing this year, which is growing "sorghum". I'm testing it out this season to see how it works out, but once you take the grain from the top, you can apparently juice the stems and do a boil and get decent quality syrup. They call it the "pancake plant" in the south of the US, because it makes both the flour and syrup at once. Might be worth a shot? If you want good grain, grow the white variety, if you want good syrup, grow the black one.
You can grow it here with great difficulty but it's not really worth it, pineapples however are very fun to grow in the UK and i would highly recommend trying it.
Here in brazil it grows like weed
Or Canada
How sweet it is to watch content by you! One day…I’m coming to visit you, brother.
Always love running into the Gladiator of the garden Maximus Maximus Maximus!!!! Maximus the merciful shows us how to grow our own sugar!
Have you ever tried sweet sorghum canes (sorgo)? It's a traditional treat here in South Africa, it's an annual with thinner canes that we grow from seed and is gaining popularity again alongside sugar cane
We used to make molasses from super cane at my grandparents. It would be a process that took all day, and we all got together at theor house and made a fun day out of it.
Love your show, thank you for your knowledge.
Very nice and quick education about suger cane. Thanks for that Mark!
Fun video Mark- I can grow this in Texas!!
Hoping to find plants/seeds here in Britain to enable me to grow sugarcane and I also love the idea to use it’s spent foliage for mulching. Excellent as always Mark 👍👍🇦🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺🇬🇧
Wow, I never considered growing cane. Growing up, my grandfather grew it on his small farm in south Georgia (US) so we always had cane syrup and he'd give us pieces of cane to chew on. But I have not seen anyone growing it since then (the 70's). I'm currently too far north I think but will be moving south again when I retire and I will definitely give it a try.
got a greenhouse?
Use to love getting canes brought down from Queensland by an uncle
I’m in Florida, was thinking of doing some sugar cane this year
Perfect timing for the video!
It does great in Florida.
I see you with your saw, my mother gave me a cane knife for a birthday or Christmas gift or whatever.
The handiest place i found to keep it handy was under the car seat.
Putting a saw under the car seat would be just silly.
Thank you. You're a blessing to everyone willing to listen and learn from you.
I love this whole concept. Thank you!
[QLD] Our landlord just "trimmed" the propertys' trees... to ground level 👻. But this video has me considering planting SUGARCANE as the replacement privacy screen.
12 months, hell yeah. I hardly need it's FULL-height for the screening to be adequate, and can also eat it.
Millet stalks can be used just like sugar cane, also very decorative
I had no idea that millet stalks were edible or had any value for our diets - thanks and I will research more.
Perfect I was looking for a cheap way to make a privacy fence and the powdered sugar looks good too.
Took me a minute, but... UNrefined. XD Love you man, you're hilarious.
My mom was born in Cairo, Georgia, home of cane syrup and dill pickles.
Their high school has the ONLY unique mascot in the nation, The Syrup Makers.
The best video of yours I've ever seen!! Thank you very much for this great information! This is the first and ONLY video I've ever seen about sugar cane. I'm not in the tropics, but we have a very long, hot summer here, about six months, so maybe this could work here! Super helpful info, thanks so much 🏆👏😃
I'm zone 4-5 here in northern Idaho so no sugarcane for me. But I do have a lot of success growing annual stevia patches. Sugar beets also do very well up here. I love seeing all your awesome growing techniques and cool plants. I was just contemplating growing a few pawpaws since they're the closest I can get to a tropical plant haha.
I’m in northern Utah, and you’ve just inspired me! Stevia!? Thank you!
I tried it for the first time this year in the Philippines, yummy.
Thank you for your Time and Knowledge, I learn a lot. Have a Blessed day and don't forget to Enjoy Life.. From Bridgeport Connecticut. USA
There's a variety of sugarcane called pitpit, which is grown for a fluffy flowerhead instead of sugary juice. It's supposedly really similar to maize or sorghum.
Whole sugars are actually great for you as long as you balance your macros. The best diets have whole, organic and unprocessed foods with meats that are wild caught/hunted or grain free, grass fed and pasture raised.
I love to drink juice of sugar cane here in Kuwait have sugarcane juicer 250fills per glass.