Has anyone ever grew Millet? I was thinking of trying top grow a Millet Spray plant again. I planted one and it grew for moths but no Millet sprays only small millet strings....anyone else try this before?

wow... no I haven't tried or even heard of it! But duh, I suppose millet has to come from SOMEwhere! *L* It sounds like fun!

I too would be interested in this, just did a very quick Google - Is an annual, plant in spring when soil temp warms up, appears to need quite warm weather to thrive and so seems to be grown mostly in Western and Northern Australia. That is just some basic info, as most of what info I found was for farmers planting acres not the backyard grower!

And just found this:

 

Cultivation details

Requires a moderately fertile well-drained soil in full sun. Succeeds in ordinary garden soil. Tolerates heat and also drought when it is established.

 

European millet is frequently cultivated in warm temperate and sub-tropical zones for its edible seed, there are many named varieties. Cultivation in Britain is somewhat problematic, the plants require good summers to do well and a dry period in late summer is required in order to ripen and dry the seed. We have had fairly good results on our trial grounds in Cornwall by starting the seed off early in a greenhouse, though this is a fairly labour-intensive method and therefore much less efficient than growing the more traditional temperate zone cereals. Yields are also considerably lower than other cereals that can be grown in this country, although the nutritional value of millets is said to be superior to wheat, oats, etc.

Propagation

Seed - sow spring in a greenhouse and only just cover the seed. Germination should take place within a week. **** out the seedlings into trays or individual pots and plant them out after the last expected frosts

 

Millet Info

 

I might give this a go.

Edited January 3, 200718 yr by budgie_addict

Yes! I might try again but this time I will buy a grow light and monitor the humidity and temperature INSIDE :(Laughing out loud): In Canada its very hard to grow anything...includiong vegetables!

Grow it outside! We've had millet start growing outside from blown seed. We ended up pulling it out because it started growing in a bad spot for the garden. :dbb1:

I tried! It grew about 5 inches tall...the millet came out and it was like a 2 cm spray than it just dried off and fell and there were only about 20 millets on it :hap:

I found some growing in my parents rose garden!! and I Forbid them from pulling the millets out.. hehe, and now they have a few sprays (about 15 or so) around 25cm long in amongst the roses that's almost ready to harvest... I have some growing near my aviary from blown seeds.. It's amongst my growing lawn... I'm not pulling them out.. though my hubby is ready to pull them all out!! (Laughing out loud)

We have some growing in the aviary from dropped seed.