Self-sufficiency is on the rise. Colorful home-grown vegetables have long filled the plates of numerous German households. It's healthy, even if it's not very filling. How about if you also venture into the cultivation of millet in order to soon be able to enjoy a wholesome meal from your own cultivation? With the tips on this page, millet cultivation is guaranteed to succeed.

Millet can be sown directly into the bed in April/May

Millet cultivation in your own garden?

Millet is a type of grain that has been known to people since ancient times. When cultivating grain, many people primarily think of extensive fields cultivated with heavy machinery. But millet cultivation is also feasible on small areas. In contrast to corn, there are only around five months between sowing and harvest. Furthermore, millet can be used in many ways:

  • Millet is a popular feed for budgerigars, for example
  • You can use millet to bake bread, enrich salads or cook sweet porridge
  • the dried panicles serve as a handsome decoration
  • Millet enriches the soil and makes a useful contribution to a productive crop rotation

Millet cultivation - that's 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

plant millet

  1. clear your bed of all roots and weeds
  2. lay out rows at a distance of 30-40 cm
  3. sow the seeds in April or May
  4. leave the bed for two weeks
  5. Water regularly, loosen the soil and remove weeds
  6. singly from a growth height of 10 cm, the plants should be 7-10 cm apart
  7. also remove the following plants

harvest

  • about five months after sowing
  • Remove the seeds from the panicles and collect them in a basket

Attention: Millet plants ripen irregularly due to the sun's rays. While the top of the panicle is already ripe, there may still be green grains on the stem. It is difficult to give an exact harvest recommendation. Collect your own experiences. Although you will harvest numerous immature grains, millet is typically a very high-yielding grain.

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Vegetable garden