Why grow millet yourself?
- Not everyone has millet in the garden
- the grain is quite undemanding
- Millet is culinary versatile and healthy
- Millet can also be used as pet food
Pull millet from seeds
To plant millet, you don't even have to buy a preferred crop from the nursery. Here's how to get the seeds and how to get them sowing proceed. If you already have a millet plant, remove the ripe seeds from the panicles. It is best to collect this in a container. Then you have to remove coarse parts of the plant when you "blow it out". Alternatively, you can purchase millet seeds from specialist retailers.
also read
- Harvest millet
- Germinate millet
- How To Combat Millet In The Lawn With Success
Location
It is important to note that millet needs a location in full sun in order to develop well. Do not underestimate the strong root formation.
instructions
- clear the bed of roots from other plants and weeds
- sow the seeds at a distance of 30 to 40 cm
- let the bed rest for about two weeks
- now the first tender shoots should already appear
- water the young plants
- loosen the soil regularly
- remove the regrowing weeds
- if the shoots are around 10 cm high, selection begins: remove the weak ones Plants so that you get main rows in which the plants are 7 to 10 cm apart have to each other
- keep in mind that the roots need a lot of space. So don't be too frugal with the removal
- You can also remove regrowing plants
- after about five months (mid-autumn) you can bring in the first harvest
- very important: home-grown millet does not need any fertilizer
