G'day Everyone, feel free to share your opinion on eating or growing sugarcane below. Thanks for your support! Cheers :)
@caribbeancharmgardening903 ай бұрын
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)
@MyName-zd9pe3 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, my mom bought sugar cane and we chewed on it. Haven't seen it in stores for years.
@payne70283 ай бұрын
How much $ for you to make a couple starts from your cane stalks and ship to us in US near Niagara Falls NYS??
@theuncatchablelizard84953 ай бұрын
…or Melbourne 😅
@amandapittar93983 ай бұрын
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!
@j.l.emerson5923 ай бұрын
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.
@lizxu3223 ай бұрын
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.
@myberryownhomestead7643 ай бұрын
Great story!
@junepatschofield76023 ай бұрын
How interesting, thank u
@timmmmmmmmmmy13 ай бұрын
👍👍
@TheCrazycrab23 ай бұрын
What’s the next depression going to look like with no local farms
@j.l.emerson5923 ай бұрын
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.
@WilderDust3 ай бұрын
Great tips. Thank you for sharing.
@GeomancerHT3 ай бұрын
Stevia is really easy to grow for anyone interested in a sweetener without calories.
@TaLeng20233 ай бұрын
@@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.
@nancydrew60103 ай бұрын
Is zone 7 in the USA to cold for sugar cane?
@TheKrispyfort2 ай бұрын
I've been trying to source sugar beets. No joy thus far. Stevia leaves are also tasty
@AudreyLMcFarland3 ай бұрын
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!!!
@bellowyelly3 ай бұрын
The description of India, I remember it well, everything you're describing! But no one thought to offer me sugar cane juice and I had no idea either. That's great!
@ss-ib8gm2 ай бұрын
@@bellowyelly 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
@carollmercer54263 ай бұрын
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!
@YOOTOOBjaseАй бұрын
In the 40's! You're in your 90's?
@carollmercer5426Ай бұрын
@@YOOTOOBjase 80s
@tloof23703 ай бұрын
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.❤
@KOKO-uu7yd2 ай бұрын
Hey, THANKS!! 😊
@ermakers1297Ай бұрын
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.
@ForniCarlos2 ай бұрын
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. 🙏🏽
@roxannern93933 ай бұрын
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.
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
😂
@justinarazo88572 ай бұрын
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. 😢
@BehoriJoku-p8g2 ай бұрын
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.
@leopardwoman382 ай бұрын
👍👍👍😀💕🌸
@beneditaoliveira8831Ай бұрын
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!
@anneciamartin95143 ай бұрын
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😊
@timmyjacobs03 ай бұрын
I love when you post about these more tropic plants. A little vicarious living
@terrywarburton61192 ай бұрын
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!
@4wdboss2303 ай бұрын
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.
@teasandtreasures86922 ай бұрын
I'm in the Valley in Az. Where would I purchase sugar cane and will it grow in our high heat? phnx area?
@jrg43132 ай бұрын
@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.
@teasandtreasures86922 ай бұрын
@@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.
@HunnyBee23Ай бұрын
Thank you, from a New Mexican neighbor. Great to know!
@lajwantishahani12253 ай бұрын
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 😁
@gregsimon359725 күн бұрын
Sugar is sugar my friend
@prittee13 ай бұрын
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!
@JoelUldrych-kh2sc2 ай бұрын
You have some of the most informative and useful videos of all my subscriptions on YT.
@wavesofzen5383Ай бұрын
Ikr he's the best
@dennismaneja19043 ай бұрын
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...
@EdimentalGardens3 ай бұрын
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
@millyw12 ай бұрын
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.
@WhatTheColour2 ай бұрын
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!
@beneditaoliveira8831Ай бұрын
Sem dúvida tbm guardo essas lembranças!💖💖💖👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇧🇷
@williansnobre3 ай бұрын
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.
@roidroid3 ай бұрын
Weird. In Europe (& nations they immigrated to) we brew an alcoholic beverage called GRAPPA, made from the waste ingredients from grape production.
@williansnobre3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@russellcrawford4809Ай бұрын
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 😊
@scrapzwtf2 ай бұрын
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.
@kimlyle79833 ай бұрын
Brilliant - very helpful. Thank you very much from South Africa 🌍
@kingmufasa89293 ай бұрын
Port elizabeth😂
@kimlyle79833 ай бұрын
@@kingmufasa8929 Hey, hello over there 😁😁😁
@teenagardner36233 ай бұрын
I love how you provide so much thought and knowledge on your videos growing food. Thank you, Mark.
@UrsulaPainter2 ай бұрын
Besides giving us good information, this gentleman is funnier than a comedy club entertainer.
@12acresfarm3 ай бұрын
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 👍
@justagerman1402 ай бұрын
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!
@seadragon33503 ай бұрын
A lot around here in Louisiana. Sometimes you can see people pulling over and running in a field to grab a few when the farmers aren’t looking 😊
@McLeodHomestead3 ай бұрын
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
@shannonelliott92302 ай бұрын
Truly, organic, homegrown onions are priceless. :)
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
🙌🏻
@christopherc.43493 ай бұрын
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.
@NachoCheese00Ай бұрын
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.
@barbaratimmermans54843 ай бұрын
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 👍
@monkeymommy7783 ай бұрын
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!
@madcatjo3 ай бұрын
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.
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
💥
@Kinetic.443 ай бұрын
The food version of bamboo really cool
@N3G4T33 ай бұрын
Now I'm wondering how pandas would react to sugar cane.
@user-im6fy4qp6mАй бұрын
i am the panda now
@firedude33373 ай бұрын
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.
@NachoCheese00Ай бұрын
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.
@janeandrews48503 ай бұрын
Brought up in Bundaberg and they used to grow tomatoes in the fallow paddocks between seasons.
@salimufari3 ай бұрын
5:30 I could see the sweetness of the decaying stalks finding it's way into the fruit of those trees you've mulched.
@teebob213 ай бұрын
That is not how mulch works. Plant roots cannot absorb large saccharide molecules.
@herelieskittythomas37262 ай бұрын
@@teebob21However sugar molecules are great for earthworms and other micro organisms.
@grilla8832 ай бұрын
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.
@nestormacias48052 ай бұрын
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
@thetroll12473 ай бұрын
UPNY I've been wanting to grow this. New house new gardens. 6 raised beds. 7 Hopefully with this. LETS GO
@rhysdehaan3 ай бұрын
This Video is AMAZING Mark!!! You are really great at KZbin and seIf-sufficiency. I learned a lot, whilst also being really entertained. 🙂👍 Looking foward to growing it!
@heathermj36202 ай бұрын
How sweet I it is to hear your happy voice!!!❤ Thank you for making learning easy and fun.
@OldManBOMBIN3 ай бұрын
Your singing voice is surprisingly comforting
@TG222223 ай бұрын
Your singing caught me off guard. Truly a voice from the heavens.
@lesleyobrien39073 ай бұрын
Hi Mark. Thanks for the great video. I’ve just ordered my first lot of sugarcane for my garden since watching and being inspired. ❤
@poliglotajardineiro9933 ай бұрын
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!
@JJ-er1ng3 ай бұрын
So far i think im going to be successful with sorghum this year here in zone 6. Definitely want to try cane next year.
@WhytePip3 ай бұрын
💚 a friend of mine has a big clump of sugar cane. Cuts it in lengths for his cows to eat during winter.
@insultobot3 ай бұрын
That intro earned a sweet thumbs up 👍
@junewrogg61373 ай бұрын
Love Love Love Sugar cane~ I grew up chewing on it in Florida. Yummmmm
@FrJahBread2 ай бұрын
How sweet it is to watch content by you! One day…I’m coming to visit you, brother.
@MrBelseBoB3 ай бұрын
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
@todayslist377372 ай бұрын
Greenhouse
@juanareas53174 күн бұрын
We used to buy sugar cane from the store when I was a kid. This video brings back memories.
@joekeegan-yc4nm3 ай бұрын
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.
@hollyhancock23193 ай бұрын
A balance on everything is the key.. ❤😊
@JCC_19752 ай бұрын
I've been looking into buying some cuttings to start growing my own. This video just made up my mind 💜 thank you 💜
@mightymouse6542 ай бұрын
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.
@Handles_AreStupid3 ай бұрын
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.
@melissahansen61993 ай бұрын
Or Denmark :(
@Handles_AreStupid3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@captainkenzie68733 ай бұрын
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.
@Amina888883 ай бұрын
Here in brazil it grows like weed
@karenst-laurent91663 ай бұрын
Or Canada
@bigb61993 ай бұрын
That little tune sung at the beginning of the video was worth the like! Love your videos!
@myexoticfoodplants67272 ай бұрын
Wonderful. I am growing Sugarcane in containers in the difficult climate of London in the UK.
@onestepcloser063 ай бұрын
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.
@siohbon215 күн бұрын
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.
@TheRTrizzy3 ай бұрын
I remember drinking fresh sugarcane in Cuba and it was so refreshing even though it has warm as
@garulusglandarius61263 ай бұрын
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 👍👍🇦🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺🇬🇧
@catsknit233 ай бұрын
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.
@roidroid3 ай бұрын
got a greenhouse?
@devindowling80713 ай бұрын
I’m in Florida, was thinking of doing some sugar cane this year
@devindowling80713 ай бұрын
Perfect timing for the video!
@herelieskittythomas37262 ай бұрын
It does great in Florida.
@biddibee35263 ай бұрын
When I was a little kid living in Louisiana, we use to eat sugar canes once in awhile.
@autumnpaul75753 ай бұрын
Fun video Mark- I can grow this in Texas!!
@MichelleUpNorth2 ай бұрын
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.
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
I’m in northern Utah, and you’ve just inspired me! Stevia!? Thank you!
@margiemurray2147Ай бұрын
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
@margiemurray2147Ай бұрын
I remember eating sugar cane growing up in Texas in the early 70's
@metasamsara3 ай бұрын
i'd love to hear more about the freeze dryer, i've been looking into them as a way to dry cannabis but it's so expensive to get one, would appreciate hearing about your overall experience with it!
@tracelee7332Ай бұрын
Thank you for the video. You are correct, everything in moderation 🙂
@ellifahmerril66113 ай бұрын
Took me a minute, but... UNrefined. XD Love you man, you're hilarious.
@2Hearts32 ай бұрын
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 🏆👏😃
@mattgoodwin-king22282 ай бұрын
I tried it for the first time this year in the Philippines, yummy.
@jjjames68943 ай бұрын
Always love ur videos, I learn a lot and ur funny and I love that u don’t demonize foods, u embrace them bc they’re real foods & have helped me grow a backyard garden, thank u & cheers!🥂 ps have u ever done anything on moringa or do u have some?
@richardgambill17372 ай бұрын
Love your show, thank you for your knowledge.
@morrows103 ай бұрын
I love this whole concept. Thank you!
@mphoramathe18013 ай бұрын
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
@angietaylor53112 ай бұрын
This video bought back special memories of eating fresh sugar cane that our Grandfather would grab off the side of the road near Maryborough. Where did you purchase the seed canes please?
@insultobot3 ай бұрын
"Government being 'toad-ally' wrong" was hilarious!
@roidroid3 ай бұрын
I mean, i'd more-so say that EVERYONE in the 1930s was pretty stupid (when Cane-Toads were introduced to Australia). The standard wasn't that high at the time. And in 100 years the future-people will be saying the same about how stupid WE were - my bet is SOCIAL MEDIA is the thing we've got wrong 🙃.
@jimginnyohio3 ай бұрын
Very nice and quick education about suger cane. Thanks for that Mark!
@SypherSevenАй бұрын
Thank you. You're a blessing to everyone willing to listen and learn from you.
@doctomj3 ай бұрын
Hi Mark, we live in hawaii and have a small stand of sugar cane which we never use because of juicing issues. Cane presses are really expensive. It looks like you are using a juicer. Any advice on which one you use, and what method you use for peeling the cane safely?
@cynthiajohnson67473 ай бұрын
I came here to ask the same. I’ve been growing sugar cane in Hawaii too but done have a way to make juice
cold press juicer. I bought one off Amazon for $90.
@millergrrrl3 ай бұрын
My son-in-law has been growing heritage varieties of sugarcane, and milling the juice and processing cane syrup for about 5 years or so. (Here in the northern Gulf of Mexico USA, it is an annual.) Last fall, I tried using fresh cane juice in a kombucha with green and black tea, and it produced a very vigorous, very white thick scoby in record time, that was very effervescent. I know the bacteria and yeasts in kombucha digest sugar, so I hope this mitigates the effects of the sugar spike on my body to some extent, but still avails me the benefits of the cane juices.
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
I make kombucha, and I use as-little-processed sugar as I can find in a normal grocery on a given day in my cold, northern, land-locked state. 😆 And that sounds amazing!
@HeywoodJablome3 ай бұрын
G'day mate! Watching your videos in my apt in NYC!
@howdyEB3 ай бұрын
I am starting to grow sugarcane this year. I moved to a warm climate from a cold one and everything is exciting and different. I can't wait to make something out of them. I am also new to rats, a stray cat adopted me and left one by my door a few weeks ago😂 I hope they stay out of my sugarcane, it was hidden in that bed pretty well!
@angelalewis36452 ай бұрын
😂 Good luck, friend!
@howdyEB2 ай бұрын
@@angelalewis3645 Thank you!!
@johnhawthorne290123 күн бұрын
Perfect I was looking for a cheap way to make a privacy fence and the powdered sugar looks good too.
@julseabate41733 ай бұрын
thanks Mark!! love from Sonoma California!!
@eilshines54515 күн бұрын
I’m so glad I came across this video. I would love to grow sugarcane myself but not sure it would grow in the UK😢 Looking forward to checking out the rest of your videos.
@peterdkline3 ай бұрын
No way I could grow this in my north US climate but I still watched anyway!
@lucianas49193 ай бұрын
I live in the upper midwest US, I can’t grow it either unfortunately.
@chkngrl3 ай бұрын
I grow it in Alaska. I bring my plants inside during the winter and put it in a greenhouse in the summer.
@roidroid3 ай бұрын
yeah yeah! 👏green👏house👏green👏house👏
@TaLeng20233 ай бұрын
Sugar beets!
@PikaRaichupikapika3 ай бұрын
Yeah I watched this cuz it was in my recommended. Midwest us we get nasty winters so couldn't grow them here
@AirwolfCrazy3 ай бұрын
I have never even considered growing sugar cane as I live just into what we call the northeast here in the USA. We do get some pretty hot humid summer weather but winter can get very cold (but not Canadian cold). Perhaps I may give it a go next year.
@fatmanwookie51803 ай бұрын
Use to love getting canes brought down from Queensland by an uncle
@margareth15043 ай бұрын
You convinced me to grow a sugar cane spot.
@Menderino3 ай бұрын
In some places in India too as kids we used to chew up sugar canes and suck out the juice 😊
@LouwPretorius3 ай бұрын
Awesome video and very informative. Thanks mate!
@sv1602 ай бұрын
Love this video Never ate sugarcane, it looks good I gone order some on Amazon