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My wheat has sprouted

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wordwiz

I'm sure it is a coincidence but last night we got the first measurable rainfall in more than two weeks and just the second one for the month. Today, the wheat I sowed last week is through the ground, meaning the birds didn't devour it all

Joking aside, this may be the most important seeds or plants I have added to the garden this year. The only thing I wish IO could add would be a truck load of tobacco stalks.

If you have a garden (not containers), for 65ยข per pound, it is the very best fertilizer you can buy. Sow it this fall, mow it in the spring (or if you have a tractor and plow, plow it under) and either rotary till the dirt or in my case cover it with dirt (in the dead part of the garden) and I guarantee you that next year's garden will be better.

Mike
 
Yea,i've been trying to get my dad to plow under his 800 acres and plant chiles,but he isn't going for it.He's also not goin'with the Monster Combines are the next big thing either!
 
800 acres??? Wow! As kids, we had access to about 20 acres of ground, 17 of them were for tobacco and another to let some cows graze.

I can only fathom how long it would take to plow 800 acres given the two-bottom plow and the 3600 Ford tractor we used - four acres a day was tough.

The guy who had the land was a dealer in tractor equipment - Massey Ferguson I think, but the biggest plow he had was a 12-bottom. Even at 24 acres a day, it would take a month of great weather to plow that much ground.

Scoville, grow up! Or learn to use emoticons.

Mike
 
I planted a mix that included wheat 2 weeks ago. I think the birds got it all. I looked at it last Sat, there wasn't really anything noticable. I'll check again in the morning.
Congrats on your sprouts!
 
Poisonette,

Did you rake the kernals into the dirt or just let them lay on the top of the soil? Have you had any rain since you sowed it?

I tried to rake the seeds into the dirt as well as watered the area right after I sowed the wheat. Yeah, some birds got a little fat but they couldn't find all the seeds!

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
Poisonette,

Did you rake the kernals into the dirt or just let them lay on the top of the soil? Have you had any rain since you sowed it?

I tried to rake the seeds into the dirt as well as watered the area right after I sowed the wheat. Yeah, some birds got a little fat but they couldn't find all the seeds!

Mike
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Yep, raked them in as best as I could.
Yep, it rained later that afternoon. Got a few sprinkles between then and the showers we've had the last 2 days.

And I know the birds are out there getting fat because I saw a few today scratching away at the soil between the rain showers.
 
Unless you raked it real deep, or your soil was quite cool, something is amiss. Unless you have not had enough rain. I watered it very heavily after I sowed it, probably equal to an inch or more. But then again, the dirt was so dry I almost had to wear a dust mask when tilling it - if you saw PigPen in the Charlie Brown cartoons and the dust he had around him when he walked, that is what I looked like moving down the garden!

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
800 acres??? Wow! As kids, we had access to about 20 acres of ground, 17 of them were for tobacco and another to let some cows graze.

I can only fathom how long it would take to plow 800 acres given the two-bottom plow and the 3600 Ford tractor we used - four acres a day was tough.

The guy who had the land was a dealer in tractor equipment - Massey Ferguson I think, but the biggest plow he had was a 12-bottom. Even at 24 acres a day, it would take a month of great weather to plow that much ground.

Scoville, grow up! Or learn to use emoticons.

Mike
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I guess if I lived in Ohio I wouldn't have a sense of humor either,since I'm a football fan!:hell:
Better?
Gettin'lit up all over eh?:shocked:
 
Sid03SVT said:
wordwiz, how much wheat are you growing? and whats the intended use?
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I'm only growing it as a cover crop in the garden - 15 pounds worth. I'll mow the blades off in the spring to add to the compost pile and till the roots under. Wheat puts a lot of nitrogen back into the soil.

Mike
 
Alas, I wouldn't mind harvesting it for its amber waves of grain, but they won't turn amber until it's way too late to plant crops next year.

Mike
 
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