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Love to see y all try something New every year, and Happy that you decided for a petrol-Free method of harvest; i wonder if just shaking the heads into a bucket would have worked well enough, say 75% and then let chicken and Free Birds gather the rest. trvely Heroic of you to go about with a hand-tool, Sir; the art to keep a Scythe sharp and useful desperately needs more attentions in these our times Wish all the Best, Good Health, and Keep On!

Your yields will likely be substantially higher if you plant in rows, burying the seeds so the birds can't get them. It should grow just fine planted about one inch deep. Based on my wheat research, you need about 20-30 seeds per square foot, so if your rows are 8" apart, you need about one seed for each 1/2" to 3/4". Obviously that takes more time and effort to plant, but if you really want the higher yield per the amount planted, that will get you part of the way there. The other consideration for boosting yield is to learn about the growth stages of the plant so you can fertilize at the appropriate time, assuming you're planning on applying nitrogen at some point. In particular, you want to promote early tillering, as that increases the number of seed stalks per plant and you want to maximize grain fill.

I'm planning on hull-less oats in the spring. I'll have to look at your other videos to see how your methods have changed, but here's how I do wheat and barley in my garden: I plant in rows (about 8" apart--as close as I can get them) rather than broadcasting, as it's easier to hand harvest rows rather than an area planting . I use a Japanese-style hand sickle, but use it to cut the straw near the ground, much like what you did in the end with your hedge clippers. I just use gloved hands and some hardware cloth to pull the heads from the straw and to break the heads up to free the grain. I use a box fan to separate the chaff from the grain. There's no hulling process required, as I grow modern wheat and free threshing barley. Seed is saved at this point, and for grain I'm going to consume I then wash with water and dry the grain in the food dehydrator to ensure it's as clean as I can get it. I likely do capture in excess of 90% of the grain in the garden when I harvest--losses are quite small and mostly consist of heads that didn't fully mature. I can get 30-40 pounds from one pound planted--likely more if I was more careful about seed spacing when planting. An easy gluten free choice that I have grown is sorghum. I'm not fond of the bland flavor, but it's easy to harvest and process and drought tolerant, so worth a try.

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Really appreciate the follow up on your experiments!! This channel is awesome, this knowledge is so important as many of us have forgotten what we once knew so well, speaking on humanity in general. I'm trying to learn all I can now 💗

This was awesome haha- thank you for showing your experiments through trial and error!! I would love to grow oats one day. I love this video, and I appreciate one of the comments that mentioned that for small-scale farming, the Amish (and presumably all humans throughout history growing oats as a staple) start their harvest while the oats are still slightly green to preserve the heads. But you learned through trial and error yourself! That's awesome.. Thank you again for your video!!

Awesome video. Many thanks for your efforts and experiments.

The hedge clippers was a cool idea, I wonder if an electric on would work faster

Hi! My only question is, what if you removed the rust and sharpened the first two tools? They look pretty rusted and not very sharp. Also what about scissors? Overall this is pretty awesome!

Love your video, where do you buy your seeds from? I want hulls on mine.

You were on to something with the hedge trimmers. But electric hedge trimmers would work way better and be a lot faster. Thanks for trying all these ideas so we don't have to find out the hard way for ourselves.

I realy appreciate your effort on the whole process. It´s a joy watching you and learn from your experience first hand. Thank you and i wish the best for you.

Those tools need to be sharp

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Just a thought but what if you had a very very clean hose and hepa bag in a 12 to 16 gallon Rigid dry vac. Get a hundred foot cord to the house and vacuum a handful of stalks, then when you get as much as possible, mow it down.

You need a grate to thrash on using a stick to whack it. You can make a wooden grate from 1/4” lath on edge, spaced 1/4 inch apart. I would use a rioby battery powered hedge clipper to cut the stocks and gather into shocks.

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Thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed watching your process and the comparisons for what went right and wrong from last year really helped.

I just found ur video by happenstance, but so glad I did. I really enjoyed watching ur entire presentation. First of all, u are adorable 🥰 and I love ur voice, it’s so soothing. How u thoroughly explain each step and process is very easy and clear to understand. You would be my dream teacher back in my old school days bc if I had a teacher like you, I would make all straight A’s. I was looking for where do oat groats come from and how are they milled? Ur video taught me so much more than I expected to learn, which was great for me. My time was well spent watching this video, which is my very first one of yours. I am subscribing and look forward to watching more of your experimental videos. Thank you!

I would skip the tilling and try a no till seed drill

I'm wondering if you have a shop vac or something similar like a vacuum with stronger suction that you could suck the seeds off of the plant. Maybe grow the wheat in large containers that are easy to move. As you harvest pull the container to the house in a wheal barrel and suck up the seeds with a vacuum hose. I bet the seeds would come off easily with the hose because they seem to be falling off as you cut the plant. So in the area you grew the wheat place a large amount of containers as many as will fit. In each container plant your wheat. When you go to separate the wheat from the hull dump it out of the vacuum and then suck it up into the vacuum repeating that process until all separated.

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For a small manual harvest idea, search for "cranberry rake scoop" to harvest the heads in the field. If you want to make sheaves, instead of a string trimmer, use the brush blade (it looks like a table saw blade) on the trimmer. It will cut the straw gently and not shake the heads off. Good luck

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sharpening the sickle and scythe would be a start.

To consider: harvest while it is still somewhat green and not yet dead dry. That way the kernels will remain. Next let it dry and then thresh it.

Thank you very much for this interesting and tutorial clip. Very inspiring. When growing decorative grass in perennial flower beds I use a Japanese kind of sickle to prune the grass in spring and autumn. It has a bit different design because the edge has got teeth which makes it very efficient when cutting grass. Look up herbateous sickle from Niwaki. Grab a bunch of straws and cut it with the sickle pulling the sickle towards you. It works a bit like a saw, its very sharp. This kind of sickle is used when harvesting smaller fields of rice in Japan according to the company that sells them. Which you and your family all the best. Greetings from Stockholm.🇸🇪

Did you ever try to cut it with an electric hedge trimmer? There are some with the possibility to put the cutting blades in an angle to the grab bar and they also have long grab bars, so that you don't have to bend down for harvesting. Using it like this you get some sort of electric scythe, but without having to push on the straw. Maybe together with harvesting earlier that would help making the work easier. I always wanted to try that too, thank you for the inspiration!! Greetings from denmark 🤗🌻🌞

You can grind those oats for flour even though they aren’t hulless oats. Rolling them is another option.

why are there still hulls on hull less oats? Am I missing something?

If I send you my address can you please send me a few wholeless oat seeds so that I can grow my own. It’s hard to trust people now days…

On planting, I have a wood rake I made with fence pickets for teeth. It cuts furrows every 6 inches and raises a ridge between them. I rake the plot out straight. I scatter oats or rye or buckwheat on that and then rake it flat at an angle to the furrows. That covers the seed very well and leaves it in rows and it doesn't leave clumps of seed or skips. On cutting with a scythe, you have to sweep toward the already cut side and you have twist at the waist and not swing your arms. Put your hat under your left arm and hold it there to teach yourself not to swing your arms. The blade should ride the ground. My back is too old to do it now.

You’re supposed to tie bundles tight as they stand. Then you go through and cut the bundles right at the base.

Wonderful video and I just subscribed! I’m also learning much of this stuff on my own right now so I find your videos and those of many others very very very helpful :). Thank you!

Could you tell us what variety of hulless oats you grew? When I look, it seems they mostly all recommended for livestock. Is there sort that is best for people food? If you mentioned it, I missed, I apologize, Thanks.

Fascinating, following your progress! So interesting. Thank you! This is my first year trying wheat...and that worked well. But would like to try oats too, so this is interesting. I wonder...would a sieve help you separate your grain from your chaff? I'll keep watching, to see how you get on! Good luck!

Seems that you put down way to much seed. You should get 5 or 6 tillers (stalks) from each seed.

Fantastic video. Its so great to see how you plant them en masse and repot. Thanks for sharing!

lol...I love this chap...when I saw him trying to hack his way through his oat field like a Vietnam jungle, I wondered if he actually knew what he was doing....fair play to him...I've never grown oats....although I do have wheat going in this year...

Do you use a rototiller to cultivate your ground? I wonder if I could to that to my 10x5 field of grass I will be growing.

You could also try using a bucket and scrape the heads in that way, you could use a hand brush to do that or your hands. I have aways wanted to grow a patch of oats in my backyard and I came across your video and gave me inspiration, thank you very much, happy harvesting 😊

Thanks much.

Have you thought of using electric or battery powered hedge trimmer?

Great Video

I wanted to give you an additional link that explained "tillering of oats". ( ua-cam.com/video/uV0jD25WbJI/v-deo.html ) Start at 5:00 min. interval.

I may give this a go. Thank you