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Posted on 01/28/2011 5:26:59 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
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Okay, so I’m posting on the fly - headed to bed with a little migraine.
Does anyone know anything about growing wheat? How much do you have to grow to make it worthwhile? Help?
“How much do you have to grow to make it worthwhile?”
About 500 acres should net you a profit of about 2%, LOL!
Grains and dried beans need an ungodly amount of land to make a single meal...or a profit! It’s the LEAST economical crop we ‘small timers’ can grow for ourselves. We are at the mercy of ‘Big Flour.’ Get used to it.
If I were you? I’d find a way to buy the whole grain, (Local Hippy-Dippy co-op? Got a Feed Mill near by?) then invest in a grinder. You’ll be miles ahead based on the ‘frustration factor’ of growing grain for yourself.
Your only other option is to move to Kansas. :)
Shhhhhhhh. I'm not telling him that.
Love the bench, and the nursery just makes me drool.
I think I read that 100 sq. feet would give you enough wheat to make 1 loaf of bread per week for a year. Somewhere I have a little booklet about growing grains at home. Can’t seem to place it just now.
Anyhow, we planted winter wheat this fall. We will harvest half of it and see how it works out. The rest is for green compost in the spring.
Thank you all for your responses and helpful advice!
there are some folks up near the corner of hwy NN and hwy G in Washington Co who make it and sell it...not exactly sure who it is at the moment, but I remember seeing the buckets every spring while driving to high school in the morning...
Thanks for the reply. I have friends who buy wheatberries (and quinoa and other stuff) and grind their own. I have a grinder already and am just mulling things over. I’m not so interested in growing it for myself now as I am having the knowledge and ability to do so if/when the poo hits the fan. We don’t have a large amount of land here, but our bug-out spot does. ;-)
Cool! Let me know how it goes!
If you find the booklet, I would be most obliged for a pic of it so I can try to find it.
I think my experimental indoor squashplant is a feminazi.
The only flowers that mature and open are female. It produces small flower buds that I presume are male, but none of them open and so... with no pollen to to apply to the females the fruit just goes kapudt.
Maybe that explains why it never produced anything when it was in a pot outside last summer.
Suggestions?
Hormone therapy?
Ship the plant off to a nunnery?
[I tapped one of my maple trees Wednesday to learn about when the sap flows.]
I have a maple in my front yard.
Any good references on how to tap the tree without killing it?
To a nunnery with it!
I was considering winter wheat as a cover crop for next year. My raised beds are just sitting there empty right now. Could you not harvest the grain and return the rest for green compost?
If I get my garden expanded as I hope to before planting this year, I may have 100 sq ft. If that 100 sq ft gave me enough wheat for 52 loaves of bread, I think that would be more than enough.
Are you in Texas?
Evidently those feminazi female flowers are putting the kaebash on the male flowers. typical.
Any ideas how to safely cut up a really hard winter squash? I came close to killing myself carving one a bit ago with a large kitchen knife and just missed a big vein in my hand and I’m a bleeder due to the aspirin I take. I have taken them out in my shop and used a jig saw to cut them in the past...
I have some milkweed seed. I pick all of my pods before they open because my neighbors grow hay.
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