Yes!!!!! Another enjoyable time. When was the last time you ate a sugarcane plant or have you ever tasted it at all? If not, then be jealous because you're missing a lot. The only thing I know is I have never grown on my farm since I began this aspect of #homesteading money, I wish I could also grow money on my farm, that would be amazing, hehe.
Yesterday was a very hectic one for me because I returned from school very late. I was very exhausted and I knew I needed glucose(energy), that's sugar. I remember we had a sugarcane plant in the backyard so the job was easy and life fulfilled. I just headed to the backyard with a well-sharpened knife and cut down some stems of the sugarcane.
At the sugarcane plantation, I saw many dead areas of the formerly cut stems. So I selected a huge stem I knew was mature and would have a very nice taste and cut it down.
I didn't only cut for myself, I had in mind everyone in the house. So immediately I went in with the bag which I put them in, my little nephew began to select the biggest stems for himself even when he didn't know what they were, hehe.
No one in the house wanted it that night, so I had to go peel for myself alone that night. I took the stem I loved and washed it in the water sink.
After washing, I then used my knife to peel them. After peeling I sliced them into cuboidal shapes to aid in easy chewing.
As I was cutting the stem into segments, I didn't forget "REPLANTING". So I practiced harvesting and replanting on the sugarcane farm. So I didn't cut the sugarcane nodes, I kept those parts for planting the next day.
So immediately after the peeling, I washed it again then took it to my room and enjoyed it alone, hehe.
In a very short timeframe, the "logs" of sugarcane were "munched" to chaffs.
It was a very big enjoyment last night.
So this morning, before leaving for school, I had to plant the stems I kept yesterday night. Just as I said earlier, the nodes are the starting point of germination for the sugarcane plant so I planted with caution making sure the nodes were exposed.
I will make the procedures very simple. I started by digging up my three holes since I had only three stems to plant.
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Then I carefully placed the stems with the nodes facing upwards and exposed them a bit.
Then I cover the holes up again. Constant watering every morning can help increase the probability of survival, so for anyone who would love to practice sugarcane planting practice, I would encourage constant watering, at least twice a day.
Just as I used to say and I'll keep on emphasizing, #homesteading is a unique practice, a lifestyle of self-sufficiency and home agriculture. With the practice of homesteading, I feel like I have everything in the world on my farm.
Thanks for reading.
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