This is an old thread I have picked up. But I thought it would be good if I told what I had heard in the farmers' radio programmes which I listen often. I did grow a plant too 3-4 years ago. What I did and what I had heard on the radio was that the farmers always plant with the 'two eyes' [nodes] in the ground, for best results. Shallow planting will not make the 'eye' [which is the growing part] to sprout new leaves.
Hope your garden is good after 8 months since your above post.
It's summer here - actually it is officially the second day - and this will go on till the end of May. My garden is dull at this time as nothing much grows in summer. What I have to do in my small garden is to maintain the plants carefully through summer.
Did you plant the sugarcane or did you lose interest? Their blooms are beautiful.
