Grow your own wheat?

[Chantal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7284011.stm

Not very practical for a garden/allotment my size but think Tigger and JB might just manage

[richard p]

we disscussed growing wheat on another thread recently, i think it fair to say the view was that whilst it is easy to grow wheat, harvesting and processing to flour by hand is hard work.

[Tigger]

Spooky - I saw this article today and saved it!

[GIULIA]

I think wheat is a bit useless for allotments but I've noticed you can get chickpea seeds now (Seeds of Italy) and actually I think they're quite worthwhile. Years ago in a friend's garden in Morocco I saw they'd grown just 4 rows of the things but the crop was impressive and they're dead easy to dry and store. Only for the larger plot I think though (mine's pathetically small).

[Johnboy]

Hi Chantal,
For the first time in over 20 years I am actually growing Wheat this year. Sadly this is Feed Wheat and not the quality needed for milling. I also will have Spring Barley on the go shortly also feed quality.
JB.