[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Well, you do not necessarily need a paddy for upland rice. (You do need a shallow lake for growing Wild Rice, but that is different!) You do need about 110 days of frost free weather. (Augie has a pond! Maybe something to think about! :)

Grow rice without flooded field

Article has good discussion of this for one type of rice. I use rice but try to get rice from California rather than Arkansas due to arsenic content.

[Paul R.]

Interesting! I wonder if the equivalent of sweet sticky “Jasmine” rice can be produced that way? (That’s all my wife likes - me, I’ll eat almost any type of rice.)

She eats such prodigious quantities though, I might need more area than we have yard! How she doesn’t blimp out I don’t fathom (but I’m glad she hasn’t, at least not yet.)

[Augie]

Well, you do not necessarily need a paddy for upland rice. (You do need a shallow lake for growing Wild Rice, but that is different!)

I've been piddling at developing a small wetland area at the back of my property near the creek. I built a small pond (40'x80') several years ago to store baitfish. Immediately adjacent to that is a vernal pool area - it's only a few inches deep when flooded and not quite as big as the bait pond. I've dug it out ~6" so far. I think if I remove another 6"-12" of soil it would hold water long enough to support a Japanese millet planting.

I was hoping to get that done this spring but we've had so much rain that it's been too muddy to get in there to work on it.