Wheat beeries

[gsb]

This may be a stupid question but are wheat berries seeds? Can i plant wheat beerries from wheat montana and get wneat?

[Shamrock1121]

This may be a stupid question but are wheat berries seeds? Can i plant wheat beerries from wheat montana and get wneat?

There aren't any "stupid questions", just stuff we don't know that we'd like to know ;).

Wheat berries are the whole seed with only the husk removed - it's the part that gets milled into flour. They are also known as a wheat kernel.

Here in wheat country, the fields are planted with "seed wheat" to control the purity of the wheat variety, to assure it's been cleaned so there are few weed seeds and to make sure it's disease free to begin with. As well as testing it for germination.

Wheat Montana wheats are Spring Wheat, which means they grow in the northern regions and are planted in the spring. Here in Kansas we grow winter wheat, which is planted in the fall and it winters-over. We have varieties of hard white winter wheat that are grown in this area. Check with your County Extension Ag. Agent about planting Wheat Montana wheat. He might be able to suggest appropriate wheat varieties for "hobby" wheat for your area. I read somewhere that a 10'x10' patch of wheat can yield enough wheat for 10-25 loaves of bread.

Just don't water the wheat like you would your garden. Let nature do that. If wheat gets too much moisture you'll end up with soft (low-protein) wheat, which is a low-gluten wheat. Even in any given field, the percent of protein in the wheat can vary greatly from one end of it to the other. Wheat that is shaded by trees may have less protein. Wheat that sits in a puddle of run-off water will get too much moisture and will also be low-protein.

-Karen