Self-sufficiency is on the rise. Colorful, home-grown vegetables have long been filling the plates of many German households. It's definitely he althy, even if it's not very filling. How about you also venture into growing millet so that you can soon enjoy a wholesome home-grown meal? With the tips on this page, millet cultivation is guaranteed to be successful.
How can I grow millet in my own garden?
To grow millet in your own garden, you need sandy soil, a warm location and you should avoid waterlogging. Sow the seeds in April or May in rows 30-40 cm apart and separate the plants from a height of 10 cm.
Growing millet in your own garden?
Millet is a type of grain that was already known to people in ancient times. When many people think of the cultivation of grain, they primarily think of vast fields that are cultivated with heavy machinery. But millet cultivation is also possible on small areas. In contrast to corn, there are only around five months between sowing and harvest. Millet can also be used in a variety of ways:
- Millet is a popular food, for example for budgies
- You can bake bread, enrich salads or cook sweet porridges from millet
- the dried panicles serve as an attractive decoration
- Millet enriches the soil and makes a useful contribution to a profitable crop rotation
Millet cultivation - this is how it works
Demands on the bed
- Provide the plants with a sufficiently large area so that they can develop their roots well
- Avoid waterlogging
- choose a warm location
- choose sandy soil if possible
Planting millet
- free your bed of all roots and weeds
- create rows 30-40 cm apart
- sow the seeds in April or May
- let the bed rest for two weeks
- Watering regularly, loosening the soil and removing weeds
- single from a height of 10 cm, the plants should be 7-10 cm apart
- also remove the offspring plants
Harvest
- after around five months after sowing
- Scratch the grains from the panicles and collect them in a basket
Attention: Millet plants ripen irregularly due to sunlight. While the tip of the panicle is already ripe, there may still be green grains on the shaft. It is difficult to give an exact harvest recommendation. Collect your own experiences. Although you harvest many immature grains, millet is usually a very high-yielding grain variety.