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How are you planting? Drill; broadcast; something else?

My first attempt was broadcast and raked in. It did worst. I'm pretty sure that was partly due to using too low a seeding rate. They just couldn't compete with the weeds.

My second attempt was companion-planted with garlic, and was dug in pretty well using a trowel. It grew well but had poor pollination, and the dwarf plants were painful to harvest by hand. My back does NOT like crawling on the ground!

My third attempt was planted the same way as my second, only without the garlic, and it was a taller variety. But, it got planted kind of late. It was a spring wheat and didn't get planted until mid-summer. So far it still looks like grass. No seedheads in sight.

I hope to test a bunch of winter wheats alongside each other, so this time will probably involve short (1-2 feet long) rows planted with a hoe. I want to find the variety/varieties that work best for me. After I find the best one, I'll probably switch to broadcasting the seeds, then running over them with the tiller. That worked well for field peas this year. I'm actually thinking of doing that with the majority of my crops next year, it just takes too long planting them by hand.

Found on Facebook: "I feel I need to pass on this Halloween pumpkin hack: once you have cut the top off get a hand mixer (with one or 2 whisks on it as both work) and use this to detach all the insides of the pumpkin...take the whisks right to the edge of the pumpkin so it scrapes the bits off then just scoop out the insides that are now all mush (it has just taken me 5 minutes to do the inside of a pumpkin) 🎃 Nina Rutherford"