Small Scale Wheat Growing
I'm shocked I didn't write this post a couple months ago. It completely slipped my mind for some reason. Better late than never! This year, I experimented growing wheat in our allotment plots. Yes, you read this right, wheat. I realise it is an unconventional choice for an allotment. I think that is why I chose to do it. I'm always looking to do something a bit different. If you examine this photo, you might notice something rather curious. This wheat is growing differently than what you see in bog-standard farmers' fields in the UK where the wheat all looks the same, knee high with uniform ears missing awns (whiskers). As you can see, my wheat is totally different. Far more unruly, just the way I like it, hahah! The individual plants are growing at different heights, most way over the knee. There is also incredible variation in the wheat ears, some have long awns, others have none. Some ears are huge, others have far fewer kernels. What is going on here? Why is there