In which we harvest sugarcane and plant sugarcane in a new "wagon wheel," @DeepSouthHomestead style! Growing sugarcane is easy, and once you have it, you have it for years! GROW OR DIE: amzn.to/473srDs TOTALLY CRAZY EASY FLORIDA GARDENING: amzn.to/47mOMM5 Thanks for watching. Sugarcane is one of our favorite crops, and it's easy to grow, even if you don't have swampy ground.

@DeepSouthHomestead

8 ай бұрын

Awesome. Glad you got a decent harvest. Our video will post Thursday.

@maryjane-vx4dd

8 ай бұрын

Will it grow in zone 4?

@beverlyd3464

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Will be watching when/how you harvest. We live in HI and grow sugarcane, but end up throwing a bunch out when harvesting as we don't have a press and for some reason won't ship to Hawaii. Would love to make syrup some day. The dogs love chewing on them. We also give some away to a lady that has a no money store; bring some take some kind of store for local veggies, plants and etc.

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Zone 4 is too cold. I would grow sorghum there - or sugar beets!

Hello my friend, glad to see your video planting sugar cane, in Indonesia we plant sugar cane by making a mound of earth first, that way you will get fertile and large sugar cane👍Nice to meet you,Cheers from Indonesia 🇮🇩🙌👋🤍👌😊

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Could you send me a video or pictures, if you have a link?

My my how fast children grow up. You're doing a great job following in your father's footsteps, young man. Spitting imagine of your dad. Soon enough you'll be growing a beard and .............................wait just a minute............

How in the world did you get such a clean shave with that machete?! I've gotta get me some of those sugarcanes this year!

@adventurebob6898

8 ай бұрын

Bring back the beard.

All of your reads are easy. That's what I love about them. They aren't too long and they read as if you are talking to us on one of these videos. I can hear your voice as I read. Love your books!

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

I will survive... Just ordered and recieved garden row gardening and grow or die.

Perfect timing on this video. I just bought 8 stalks of cane from DtG, and talked about the wagon wheel method at his plant sale this past weekend.

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you, man.

Cultivo de Caña🤝👍

That’s awesome David

Thumbs up for "wanting to get off the swing and work"! 🥰

Had the pleasure of trying some fresh pressed sugar cane the other day and now I have to grow this! Amazing juice. Certainly will be growing this for years to come. Now off to check out deepsouthhomestead. Thanks for continually being an inspiration.

@zacklee-of3te

3 ай бұрын

Try it from just chewing it from the stalk. Idk why but it taste better and many of my friends would agree it’s better tasting chewing from a fresh stalk verse juicing it. It also help me cure my ckd stage 2 that’s incurable in america

@FurFeathersandFlowers

3 ай бұрын

@@zacklee-of3te Have a bunch planted now. Will do. Have tried some samples and it is good but at this stage I prefer the juice. Good to hear it helped you a lot.

Thanks Mr Good I’ve got totally crazy easy, and some of your other titles (excellent books) AND the shirt you were wearing in this video, it’s EPIC But I’ve gotta order Grow or Die, sooooon! We’ve given away some cane cuttings to our neighbors recently, trying to inspire them to start planting or even a homestead It’s a tough sell to sleeping Americans

Not sure if I will have a personal use for sugarcane but I figure it would be a good screening plant that I might be happy to have around for barter. That video with Danny and Wanda last year was great, I got to see them in action with out the burden of producing content.

I just have to give a huge Shout out to y'all and D's Etsy store, the sugarcane I bought was the only thing that actually grew for me this year, and I put seeds out EVERYWHERE.

Natural

Much love brother.

Had no clue you could grow sugar cane that far north.

So cool! I'm gonna try making wagon wheels when I plant my cane. 😎

Excelente video 👍

I just ordered the Grow or Die book. I already got the Crazy easy Florida Gardening book years ago when I was totally at a loss of what to grow when and pests and soil and everything about florida growing. I am an Alabama farm girl and lord I miss that Tallapoosa county sandy clay loam that grew whatever you wanted it too. We bought almost nothing from stores to eat except flour and sugar, vinegar and salt. Oh and some seed. Now I have to grow some sugar cane and get my garden tilling 14” meadow creatures I been lusting after for 3 years(they are spensive).

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Que rica caña

Great video

My condolences on the loss of your beard.😁..I live in Ecuador and we love panela and jugo de cana...

Definitely going to plant some wagon wheel style

Buenas cañas

Glad you mentioned the growing zone! A work friend broughtme acouple of pieces today. Now to plant...

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

That is great!

Loved reading Grow or Die. That was my first discovering all your work. Keep it up. Thanks David The Good. Like the clean shave look too. God bless 👍🙏🌱

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Thank you

I have 3 varieties of the Compost your enemy shirts and they're my favorite! Everyone should cultivate at least one variety, they're super easy to grow and take almost no maintenance. Water after wear and they'll last for years 👍 ***Not an ad or sponsorship I just actually do love the shirts.

Good stuff David, really Amazon making bank on cow poop hilarious!

Buena

I’m growing the same it looks similar, I got my “cuttings” from the local Mexican market

It’s NO shave November.

I still have to do my sugar cane

This is another one that i would really like to grow but is nowhere to be found in Italy. For sugar I'm trying my luck with honey locust: replacing oak trees in my forest (firewood) with Gleditzia to see if we can make something from it!

Do you want some Mennonite sorghum seed? It's supposed to be a good sugar variety. I grew a bunch for seed but have not tried syrup. The history of sugar and the blocking of imports in the American colonies is fascinating .

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

I would be interested in trying it, yes

@adventurebob6898

8 ай бұрын

@@davidthegood ok I'll do a germination test in the next few weeks and then send you some. Where can I find your PO box?

In higher latitudes you may want to grow sugar-beet instead.

I wanna tey that wagon wheel pattern! Here in 9b. Should I be waiting to harvest my small patch of cane till the 1st Frost in this zone? Last 2 yrs, have had 1st frost mid Dec, but usually have em in Jan

Nooooo brother why did you cut ya hair🤣🤣

Thanks for the vid David. I have a lot of cane I grew over the summer. When should I plant it in central FL 9b? It’s still pretty warm here and I don’t want it to come up early and get ruined by frost. Thanks

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

You can still plant now. If it freezes back, it will regrow.

NOOOO! Your doing it all wrong ! That’s no sugar cane knife !!!😂

@hughbrackett343

8 ай бұрын

Funny thing is, I think he has or had a proper sugar cane knife. 🔪

Me is doing this in Ocali....in rug rats voice😂😂

Bring back Fall Into You. I'm not getting my DTG groove allotment!

Caña de azúcar

What variety are you growing, David?? It’s just called green cane? I want to get something similar since I’m in zone 8 as well

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

I don’t know the variety name. However, we have 4 types total and they all grow fine here. Whatever you get should work fine.

Where do i find reliable and reasonably priced nodes/stalks? Suggestions for texas area?

@davidthegood

3 ай бұрын

It's hard at this time of year, but sometimes you can get them at farmer's markets and ethnic markets.

Hi David. I live in the Netherlands, Western Europe. It seems the climate here is comparable to zone 7b. But I never saw sugarcane growing here. Sugar here is made out of 'sugar beets', cane sugar is imported from tropical countries. I don't think the temperature here will be a problem, it's never really cold. If sugarcane likes water, the rainy weather here is okay ... But maybe it's cloudy too often? Otherwise I would like to experiment with sugarcane in my garden. What do you think?

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

It is worth trying, but there may not be enough sun. You might try growing sorghum instead.

@introtwerp

8 ай бұрын

Can you grow subtropical plants there

@billyd7628

7 ай бұрын

thing about europe is that its not as sunny as north america even in the same zone. so the actual reality is much more different, despite being able to grow certain plants in zone 7 in america you cant in europe.

Are you going to sell any of your cane for growing??????? Put me on the list as I really want to try growing sugar cane.

There is a huge fat, stripe variety that grows in Jamaica. Do you know it? Can it grow in your area?

👍👍😊😊💕💕

Caña

We are in the coastal PNW, zone 8b, wet, heavy and acidic clay, 100+ inches of rain in the winter, and hardly any rain in summer. I have wanted to try growing sugar cane for years. No one around here grows it, so I'm guessing it doesn't do well here. I'm gonna try it, because, what have I got to lose (besides time, money, energy, and pride)? Thanks for the video!

@billyd7628

7 ай бұрын

i believe its hardy down to zone 6 at least for the most hardy cultivars. zone 8 should be just fine.

@belle42

7 ай бұрын

I doubt you'll get enough sun and heat but hey .. Why not try?

How you process sugar cane to get sugar??

@billyd7628

7 ай бұрын

cut it up, crush it to get the juice, boil until the water is gone, you've now got molasses. then you separate the crystals from the molasses and you've got brown sugar and molasses.

Does it make a good fishing pole !?

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

No, it's too weak at the joints and way too thick and heavy.

Where did you get seeds?

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

We got cuttings from Etsy for this type. Most of the others we got from local farmers, or from the farmer's market.

Who are you and what did you do with David?

@WilliamMiller-nr5gb

8 ай бұрын

The other younger brother they all were hiding!

@Sm0k4dee

8 ай бұрын

@@WilliamMiller-nr5gb hiding from what? ATF?

@WilliamMiller-nr5gb

8 ай бұрын

@Sm0k4dee As yet undetermined... Still under investigation. Most likely thus far appears to be Gardening Code Enforcement.... though neither failure to register as habitual compostor nor content creating without full government license and approval have been ruled out. We'll see!

@Sm0k4dee

8 ай бұрын

@@WilliamMiller-nr5gb it hink you ate too much Tomaco

@WilliamMiller-nr5gb

8 ай бұрын

@@Sm0k4dee 🤣 Could be, I still shop at the Kwik-E-Mart!

do you have cuttings for sale? does your daughter?

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

Yes, she has some: www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens

You shaved!

I dont understand why someone would want to grow sugar, or increase their sugar consumption through growing it rather than paying a few pennies at the store for it. Its not like it becomes a multivitamin when you grow it yourself

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

It is pleasant to have cane syrup. And it tastes better than store sugar. And cheap sugar is unlikely to be around in a survival situation.

@billyd7628

7 ай бұрын

actually is kinda of a multi vitamin, atleast the juice itself is. once you distill it sure it just sugar, but the juice has some antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.

Who on earth is that????? 😅😅

Nah, too much sugar is bad for your health, and people are eating way too much of the stuff. Better to just cut it out entirely.

@davidthegood

8 ай бұрын

But rum, now... rum...

@adventurebob6898

8 ай бұрын

​@@davidthegood Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. -Willy Wanka the sage

@WilliamMiller-nr5gb

8 ай бұрын

​@@adventurebob6898That wasn't Ozzy?

@honeybee52000

8 ай бұрын

Overly processed white sugar you buy at the store is wayyy different than the homegrown awesomeness of cane sugar. Everything in moderation ♡ Plus who doesn't love pie? I'd love to grow my own pie ingredients - including fresh sugar cane for sweetener! 🥧