Plant Care And Cultivation: Job's tears (Coix Lacryma-Jobi) is a close relative of corn and can grow to 4 feet. Since ancient times this grass has been in cultivation as an especially sweet-tasting cereal flour but it also has the distinction of being the oldest ornamental grass in cultivation—it was grown in the fourteenth century in monastery gardens. The seeds fall readily from the Plant Care and Cultivation at maturity and are extremely hard, colored with streaks of gray and black on white.
Space all Plant Care and Cultivations of one kind 1-2 inches apart. Best plan is to Plant Care and Cultivation tall growers at back facing window, shorter ones at sides, leaving front space open for observation. Push roots of Plant Care and Cultivations down into sand (a little water poured over sand makes Plant Care and Cultivationing somewhat easier); weight down the Plant Care and Cultivation stems by pushing small rocks into the sand against them; otherwise, animals uproot Plant Care and Cultivations. Take care to leave Plant Care and Cultivation crowns uncovered. |
