When I received these sugarcane shoots from a very generous Uncle David, all I had in mind was to clear a little side bed along the fence in our backyard and plonk them there (the wife had steadfastly refused to have them out in the front, though i do think they make pretty decent deterrence to anyone attempting to jump our fence) .
Somehow I had this crazy dream of gnawing sugar cane like those oldtimers and making ‘cooling’ sugarcane tong-shui whenever i feel like it. It was a small dream of having a little sugarcane grove….then i started digging.