[morticaixavier]

My barley is starting to head! How exciting!

[HoosierBrew]

Very cool !

[GolfBum]

Very cool. Are you going to kiln it too? How big is your farm?

[morticaixavier]

Yeah, I'm gonna malt it and play around with kilning in the oven.

My 'farm' (thanks for that by the way, makes me feel far more industrious that I actually am) is about 800 sqft with about 200 to barley right now and three chickens, a dog, and a cat. The dog and cat don't really do much for the farm except maybe chase rats away.

[beersk]

How much barley do you expect to get out of that?

[erockrph]

How much barley do you expect to get out of that?

I count about 20 kernels

[morticaixavier]

How much barley do you expect to get out of that?

I count about 20 kernels

if I'm lucky!


I'm hoping for around 10 lb

[beersk]

Nice. Wish I could try what you make of it.

[el_capitan]

Dude - posting pics of growing barley in March is a low blow to us Minnesotans.  We're still buried under 4 ft of snow and hunkering down with -50 windchills!  Grrrr...

Looks nice though.  Where did you get your seed?  I'm assuming you went organic?  I'd like to grow a little test plot, once I'm able to expand my garden space.  I wonder if a person could sow barley under hops plants?  My garden space is all booked for vegetables, but I have about 120 square feet of space (3 x 40 feet) in my hops bed.  I'd hate to weaken the hops by putting in too much competition though.  Hmmm... anybody tried this?  Thoughts?

[morticaixavier]

Dude - posting pics of growing barley in March is a low blow to us Minnesotans.  We're still buried under 4 ft of snow and hunkering down with -50 windchills!  Grrrr...

Looks nice though.  Where did you get your seed?  I'm assuming you went organic?  I'd like to grow a little test plot, once I'm able to expand my garden space.  I wonder if a person could sow barley under hops plants?  My garden space is all booked for vegetables, but I have about 120 square feet of space (3 x 40 feet) in my hops bed.  I'd hate to weaken the hops by putting in too much competition though.  Hmmm... anybody tried this?  Thoughts?

yeah, apologies to my cold weather friends;D

Got the seed from johnny's. 5 lb was  cheap and it only took ~1 to sow the site so I've been practicing malting with the rest. Organic so not sprayed or treated.

[rjberry]

Looks great man!  I'm about to order a few hop rhizomes and see how they fare in the GA humidity, but I'm not sure I could produce enough barley to be worthwhile.

[BrewArk]

Is that the Conlon?

My winter barley is lodging quite a bit.  I think I should have irrigated a bit more.  I planted in Nov. and let it go.  When the rain came in Feb it was too tall, and with the added water fell over.  I think I'll stick to spring planting (& just veggies in the winter).

The heads that I do have are not nearly as plump as yours.  Looks like you'll be able to plant again as soon as you harvest.

Look forward to hearing about the harvest, threshing, malting!

[morticaixavier]

The only thing left when I got around to ordering was robust. It's six row but it is a malting variety.

[pete b]

The only thing left when I got around to ordering was robust. It's six row but it is a malting variety.

I'm getting 5# of the same to plant if spring ever comes. How much irrigation did it take? My options of where to plant it widen if I don't need to reach it with a hose. I'm thinking of doing some near enough to water with the hose and, if possible, plant some before a good rain in an area that is a couple hundred yards from a hose.
I hope you keep us posted on how much time the threshing and winnowing takes.

[morticaixavier]

The only thing left when I got around to ordering was robust. It's six row but it is a malting variety.

I'm getting 5# of the same to plant if spring ever comes. How much irrigation did it take? My options of where to plant it widen if I don't need to reach it with a hose. I'm thinking of doing some near enough to water with the hose and, if possible, plant some before a good rain in an area that is a couple hundred yards from a hose.
I hope you keep us posted on how much time the threshing and winnowing takes.

I think we watered twice before winter. since then none. we will see what happens as the 'wet season' here ends.

I will say that I have now pulled 5 or 6 plants with loose barley smut infections. I don't know if it's from the seed or someone else's barley in the area but be aware. I guess it's the price of organic agriculture.