Sugar cane

[craigb]

sugar cane only grows oin gods own country and thats queensland.
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Maybe you should let the cane farmers in northern NSW know that.

[oges]

are you trying to entice cane toads down to Vic??

[bitingmidge]

Sugar cane has tiny hairs all over it that get into your skin if you brush against it and the hairs are extremely irritating and nigh impossible to get out.

Al,

That being the case, you could explain the palms of your hands by shrugging your shoulders and saying you've been carrying sugar cane!

What Doug says old chap!

Why not go looking for some clumps of temperate palms or other varieties of bamboo perhaps? (Keep the bamboo in tubs or you'll be eaten alive by the stuff.)

Cheers,

P

[markharrison]

and if quarantine regulations permit it

Quarrantine might be a problem. Best check that out now as the fines are not to be laughed at!

[NewWoody]

Al,
You can buy them from Asian Grocery Stores in Melb.

Try Victoria St Richmond or Springvale.

Not every store has it, but look and you will find.

As you'd know, protect them from frost, may be plant them next to some solid brick wall for some radiant heat and they should be fine.

[dan_tom]

Sorry Ozwinner, but hopefully you won't be getting any sugar cane sent to you in a hurry, apart from the fact it probably won't live in Melbourne, there are serious quarantine risks.

I come from a family of cane farmers and nearly keeled over when I read your request.... thinking of the palm leaf beetle and sugar cane smut, legislation was passed in 1993 and 1998 that limited the transportation of sugar cane. (http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LE...93/93SL436.pdf, http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LE...98/98SL237.pdf)

There are signs up along the Bruce Highway, informing people of the risk. Might not seem so bad to the odd tourist, but think of the poor cane farmers (as if the drought is not enough!).:eek:

Cheers
Dan

[ozwinner]

, but think of the poor cane farmers (as if the drought is not enough!).:eek:

Cheers
Dan

Hmm, we dont have any here, so I dont see the problem.

Strange how I can get inported stuff here but not local stuff..

Al :confused:

[ozwinner]

Al,
You can buy them from Asian Grocery Stores in Melb.

Try Victoria St Richmond or Springvale.

Not every store has it, but look and you will find.

As you'd know, protect them from frost, may be plant them next to some solid brick wall for some radiant heat and they should be fine.

Thanks Woody thats what I wanted to hear.
Is is growable, or is it preserved?
Ienjoy a stroll down Vic St.
I can call into Rare Woods around the corner too.

Al

[Sturdee]

I come from a family of cane farmers and nearly keeled over when I read your request.... thinking of the palm leaf beetle and sugar cane smut, legislation was passed in 1993 and 1998 that limited the transportation of sugar cane. Dan

Dan, I agree with you that it is essential that we all comply with any quarantine regulations, for the consequences of not complying are horrendous to our farmers, I can't see how the legislation quoted is applicable to bringing sugar cane into Victoria.

Surely even if those pests came here with a cane they wouldn't survive in our climate.

But it is nice to have confirmation of what I've known for a long time in that Queensland is a pest quarantine area. We've been sending our pests there for years, especially in our winter.

Peter.

[Iain]

I have seen it in Asian grocerie stores, it's loose and not preserved, for memory in about 12" lengths, no root though (story of Al's life )

[ozwinner]

I have seen it in Asian grocerie stores, it's loose and not preserved, for memory in about 12" lengths, no root though (story of Al's life )

I, like sugar cane dont need roots.
You just lay it in the dirt with a nodule, and away it goes.

Al

[bitingmidge]

Sorry Ozwinner, (snip) sugar cane smut,.....

Gee Dan,

It's not as if he needed encouragement!

P

[Termite]

I, like sugar cane dont need roots.
You just lay it in the dirt with a nodule, and away it goes.

Al

Will I....nah.......ah the hell with it. So sugar cane is a nodule rooter eh? :eek:

[Iain]

I think this means that when Al sheds his mortal coil he will become a liability in a cemetary

[Baz]

[QUOTE=doug the slug] sugar cane only grows oin gods own country and thats queensland.

Not so Doug, grows in Northern NSW and that's gods country.
Cheers
Barry