Growing Wheat

[bluemoon]

Has anyone tried growing their own grains? I've had a go at quinoa and, of course, sweetcorn, but I have this dream where I bake a loaf of bread and I've made the flour. I suppose what I'm really asking is not about the growing, - which I imagine is pretty straightforward, - and more about how easy it is to deal with and prepare once you've grown it. Is it possible? Is it worth the hassle?

Thanks, love bluemoon

[Snadger]

Good question Bluemoon ( Man City supporter I presume!)

It would certainly be a bit of a challenge to grow some wheat and bake some bread from it! I think once you'd grown it for the amount you would need for a loaf you could 'whinney'? it and use a pestle and mortar or some other attachment on a blender?

I would wonder what the poundage of grain you could expect from a square metre? Or in simpler terms, how may loafs per square metre.

Look forward to some of the replies on this one as I might have a bash at growing it meself!

[greenlung]

Hi - Yes possible, no, not worth the hassle, but worth doing once:

I grew about a square metre of wheat this year, with this idea in mind. At least I think it was wheat - I found a pile of grain at the edge of a field somewhere. This is what it looked like in May & July - I harvested some time in August when it was all crispy golden - well, the bits that weren't a mouldy bluey mess.

In the end, the ripened dried harvest looked so good that I've saved it for decoration and never attempted to make flour. The long dried stalks are great for protecting plants from frosts. I reckon I might just have made enough flour for a few bread rolls from the whole ripened lot - but maybe an agricultural advisor could tell us exactly how much flour you can get from 1 square metre.