07-09-2008, 01:13 PM
StillHope, right now we have little seedlings and are *praying* we'll close on 2 acres before September 1 so we can plant them. The first round of all our veggies is small quantities of each kind, to figure out what grows well, easily, etc. We're going to end up with 80+ varieties of 'stuff' this first time around, then we hope to whittle it down to maybe 20 strong favorites.
I have to re-read the grain yield for the buckwheat I'm ordering. It might be something like 12 grains per stalk. THen I get to do the math of how much we want to eat..end up with a rough idea of how many plants we'll need to successfully raise. My uneducated guess is that we'll never have enough grains to keep ourselves supplied. I think the yield & hand-threshing will be too prohibitive to keep up with our munching habits. The veggies on the other hand...I think we're always going to have too much of those & have lots to trade.
Of course, I'll know a heck of a lot more when these buggahs get big! [
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Do you want a few of the buckwheat seeds I order so you can try them out?
I have to re-read the grain yield for the buckwheat I'm ordering. It might be something like 12 grains per stalk. THen I get to do the math of how much we want to eat..end up with a rough idea of how many plants we'll need to successfully raise. My uneducated guess is that we'll never have enough grains to keep ourselves supplied. I think the yield & hand-threshing will be too prohibitive to keep up with our munching habits. The veggies on the other hand...I think we're always going to have too much of those & have lots to trade.
Of course, I'll know a heck of a lot more when these buggahs get big! [
]Do you want a few of the buckwheat seeds I order so you can try them out?
* I'd rather fail at happiness than succeed at misery *