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Posted : Sunday, August 18, 2024 12:52 PM
LIVE WELL ROOTED BLUE RIBBON CHEWING SUGAR CANE PLANTS at least 8" tall ready to be planted in your garden upon receipt.
These are organic "nubs" planted last fall which have sprouted for the 2024 season and ready to GROW very tall! Plants are $5 each - 2 for $7 - 6 for $20.
This is the old fashioned heirloom sugar cane you ate as a kid: NOT the hybrid commercial stuff grown for mass production.
Here's my instruction sheet: Blue Ribbon Chewing Cane You have just received LIVE SPROUTING Southern Sugar Cane Plants known as Blue Ribbon Chewing Cane ready for planting in your garden.
These are sugar cane nodes which have ALREADY SPROUTED AND ARE ROOTED and need to be planted into soil in a sunny location.
If you are not ready to plant these directly into your garden right now, then you can plant them in a pot of soil until you are ready.
If you delay they will get too big and tip over the pot.
If the pot is too small, the cane will get very root bound and will have stunted growth.
I recommend planting into your garden soil.
If you feel you need to add fertilizer I recommend a little 10-10-10, but remember sugar cane is a type of grass and it prefers nitrogen rich fertilizers.
Nitrogen is the first number of the fertilizer numbers (an easy way to remember what the numbers of fertilizers stand for is “up, down, all around” - the first number helps the green above the soil, the second helps the roots and the third is all over health).
This sugar cane is organic and heirloom.
I would not fertilize more than once this year unless you have very poor soil.
Once established, this is a low maintenance crop that does not require any additional labor as the plants will grow effortlessly even under harsh weather conditions.
Treat your newly planted sugar cane like a new lawn: water it carefully and don’t let it dry out.
You don’t need to trim or prune any dry leaves unless they are in your way.
Just like a grass lawn, once the cane is established, you can relax but it wants room for its roots to spread out.
It is not invasive like some bamboo or mint, but it does multiply over the years to come, and one single plant will turn into an 8 to 10 plant clump.
Weed the planting bed often.
Weeds could choke out your new sugarcane especially in the first year before they have the chance to thrive.
Constant weeding is necessary until the canes grow large enough to shade and choke out most weeds on their own which they will by the second year.
Plants will take approximately six months to mature and to be ready for consumption and can reach heights of 12 feet or more.
I recommend planting next to a fence where you can loop twine from the fence to in front of the canes and back to the fence to keep wind from blowing them over.
The sugar cane does not start shooting up to 12' heights until late summer so don’t worry that it does not reach full height right away.
You can either plant your sugarcane alone or in clumps but at first, I’d recommend planting them no more than 1' apart next to a fence so you can easily tie them as a group to the fence as they get taller.
Wait until fall to harvest.
Sugar cane plants should be left to grow for as long as possible before the first frost of the year.
If you live in a place with long, cold winters, play it safe and harvest your sugar cane by the end of September, but where I am in Zone 9 of SE Louisiana, we often have mild winters and I’ve harvested as late as February.
No matter what, though, you have to harvest it at some point because it stops growing by spring and more chutes start sprouting out and the old canes will dry up and attract ants.
You can harvest the cane when mature by cutting the cane above but low to the ground level and then more cane will grow back the following spring.
You can eat the sugar cane (usually peeled with a pocket knife) and plant the nodes and make more sugar cane.
Use a machete to cut the canes close to the ground.
The mature stalks will be tall and thick, similar to bamboo, so simple garden shears won't cut it.
Use a machete or a saw to cut the sugar cane as close to the ground as possible, so you'll be able to make use of as much of the plant as possible.
Don't hack into the ground.
You don't want to damage the roots of the established sugar cane plants.
If you leave the roots in the ground, your sugar cane will come up again next year and you’ll see shoots around February, March or April.
If you have a hard freeze, you might want to cover your sugarcane with a blanket or mulch in the first year but here in Zone 9, my sugarcane is fine in the ground unprotected but we rarely have hard freezes.
You can find all kinds of info and videos online about how to plant new sugar cane, but here’s how I do it: After cutting the entire stalk of cane with a machete, place it on an old table with the part you are going to cut hanging over the edge and machete it into pieces of (edible) cane and “nodes” (or joints).
You and your kids can peel the cane pieces with a pocket knife and chew it and then spit out the leftovers.
I have never mastered preserving the cut cane for more than a couple of days in the refrigerator because it dries out.
As far as the “nodes” go, I’d recommend planting them about ½" deep in soil in pots, horizontally, soon after they are cut and leave them until they sprout in the spring.
Keep the pot watered through the winter but if there is a freeze, bring the planted nodes inside with your other potted plants until the freeze is over.
If you do not plant the nodes soon after they are cut, they will dry out and not be productive.
Check the internet about making sugarcane syrup (without a press) if you like.
And one more thing, my cats like chewing on the sugar cane leaves in the yard sometimes! It is actually grass and I guess it’s sweet and it lasts lots longer than ordinary cat grass - LOL! ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE ASK!
These are organic "nubs" planted last fall which have sprouted for the 2024 season and ready to GROW very tall! Plants are $5 each - 2 for $7 - 6 for $20.
This is the old fashioned heirloom sugar cane you ate as a kid: NOT the hybrid commercial stuff grown for mass production.
Here's my instruction sheet: Blue Ribbon Chewing Cane You have just received LIVE SPROUTING Southern Sugar Cane Plants known as Blue Ribbon Chewing Cane ready for planting in your garden.
These are sugar cane nodes which have ALREADY SPROUTED AND ARE ROOTED and need to be planted into soil in a sunny location.
If you are not ready to plant these directly into your garden right now, then you can plant them in a pot of soil until you are ready.
If you delay they will get too big and tip over the pot.
If the pot is too small, the cane will get very root bound and will have stunted growth.
I recommend planting into your garden soil.
If you feel you need to add fertilizer I recommend a little 10-10-10, but remember sugar cane is a type of grass and it prefers nitrogen rich fertilizers.
Nitrogen is the first number of the fertilizer numbers (an easy way to remember what the numbers of fertilizers stand for is “up, down, all around” - the first number helps the green above the soil, the second helps the roots and the third is all over health).
This sugar cane is organic and heirloom.
I would not fertilize more than once this year unless you have very poor soil.
Once established, this is a low maintenance crop that does not require any additional labor as the plants will grow effortlessly even under harsh weather conditions.
Treat your newly planted sugar cane like a new lawn: water it carefully and don’t let it dry out.
You don’t need to trim or prune any dry leaves unless they are in your way.
Just like a grass lawn, once the cane is established, you can relax but it wants room for its roots to spread out.
It is not invasive like some bamboo or mint, but it does multiply over the years to come, and one single plant will turn into an 8 to 10 plant clump.
Weed the planting bed often.
Weeds could choke out your new sugarcane especially in the first year before they have the chance to thrive.
Constant weeding is necessary until the canes grow large enough to shade and choke out most weeds on their own which they will by the second year.
Plants will take approximately six months to mature and to be ready for consumption and can reach heights of 12 feet or more.
I recommend planting next to a fence where you can loop twine from the fence to in front of the canes and back to the fence to keep wind from blowing them over.
The sugar cane does not start shooting up to 12' heights until late summer so don’t worry that it does not reach full height right away.
You can either plant your sugarcane alone or in clumps but at first, I’d recommend planting them no more than 1' apart next to a fence so you can easily tie them as a group to the fence as they get taller.
Wait until fall to harvest.
Sugar cane plants should be left to grow for as long as possible before the first frost of the year.
If you live in a place with long, cold winters, play it safe and harvest your sugar cane by the end of September, but where I am in Zone 9 of SE Louisiana, we often have mild winters and I’ve harvested as late as February.
No matter what, though, you have to harvest it at some point because it stops growing by spring and more chutes start sprouting out and the old canes will dry up and attract ants.
You can harvest the cane when mature by cutting the cane above but low to the ground level and then more cane will grow back the following spring.
You can eat the sugar cane (usually peeled with a pocket knife) and plant the nodes and make more sugar cane.
Use a machete to cut the canes close to the ground.
The mature stalks will be tall and thick, similar to bamboo, so simple garden shears won't cut it.
Use a machete or a saw to cut the sugar cane as close to the ground as possible, so you'll be able to make use of as much of the plant as possible.
Don't hack into the ground.
You don't want to damage the roots of the established sugar cane plants.
If you leave the roots in the ground, your sugar cane will come up again next year and you’ll see shoots around February, March or April.
If you have a hard freeze, you might want to cover your sugarcane with a blanket or mulch in the first year but here in Zone 9, my sugarcane is fine in the ground unprotected but we rarely have hard freezes.
You can find all kinds of info and videos online about how to plant new sugar cane, but here’s how I do it: After cutting the entire stalk of cane with a machete, place it on an old table with the part you are going to cut hanging over the edge and machete it into pieces of (edible) cane and “nodes” (or joints).
You and your kids can peel the cane pieces with a pocket knife and chew it and then spit out the leftovers.
I have never mastered preserving the cut cane for more than a couple of days in the refrigerator because it dries out.
As far as the “nodes” go, I’d recommend planting them about ½" deep in soil in pots, horizontally, soon after they are cut and leave them until they sprout in the spring.
Keep the pot watered through the winter but if there is a freeze, bring the planted nodes inside with your other potted plants until the freeze is over.
If you do not plant the nodes soon after they are cut, they will dry out and not be productive.
Check the internet about making sugarcane syrup (without a press) if you like.
And one more thing, my cats like chewing on the sugar cane leaves in the yard sometimes! It is actually grass and I guess it’s sweet and it lasts lots longer than ordinary cat grass - LOL! ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE ASK!
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• Location : New Sarpy,LA
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