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    • grrlscout > Catherine, The Herb Lady December 19, 2012 at 10:49am

      During the course of yesterday's research, I read that PVC cutters are handy for cutting sugar cane.

    • Dennis j.l. Hagood > Catherine, The Herb Lady December 19, 2012 at 8:49am

      Do you soak the ground year round? to keep it green?

    • Catherine, The Herb Lady > Dennis j.l. Hagood December 19, 2012 at 9:04am

      I found our sugar cane takes about the same amount of water as tomatoes - a little more from our horse trough in the summertime.

      As with a lot of edibles, deep water and allow to dry some before watering again.

  • Catherine, The Herb Lady December 19, 2012 at 7:18am

    Hi Krystal,

    I grow sugar cane and have not tried juicing yet because I don't have a juicer, but here is the recommended way with a home juicer (but I like Grrlscout's idea of the old wringer :-).

    You must cut the cane into pencil thick pieces to use in a home juicer to avoid ruining it.  The picture Grllscout posted is the way they do it in the cane field growing areas, on a local scale.

  • Krystal Lynn Bittner December 18, 2012 at 2:02pm

    lol i'm hoping to get gallons. although i  will enjoy chewing some. Not sure what to do once i have the juice maybe make sugar or try fermenting it. 

  • Krystal Lynn Bittner December 18, 2012 at 11:40am

    thanks for the ideas, i'll post pics of the sugarcane patch as soon as I get home. I tried juicing some in my Cuisinart juicer once. but i would be afraid I may damage it if i tried juice more than a 2' stalk. 

    • Brian Beck > Krystal Lynn Bittner December 18, 2012 at 12:39pm
      Can't you just chew the tissue and suck out juice?

      I remember doing that as a child. Eons ago
  • grrlscout December 18, 2012 at 10:44am

    Somewhere, in the deep recesses of my random trivia database, I seem to recall seeing this done with something like an old-timey laundry wringer. I believe they cut them length-wise, and the run them through. I'll have to Google around to be sure though.

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