I was originally planning on harvesting the wheat on Monday, but it is supposed to rain on Monday, and Saturday is looking like it’s going to be a busy day, so I took a couple hours to cut it and get it into the shop on Thursday.
140 ft.² of Fife red wheat planted last fall, harvested by hand with a sickle, took about an hour and a half, though once I figured out the process, it actually went much faster.
Some lessons learned, plant wheat into the ground, not straw bales, so they have a stronger system and stand more upright. Fred wheat has a long stock, so placing posts along the row every 10 feet to enable us to run strings along to support them when they get too tall. Harvest a bit earlier, some of the heads were empty and had already dropped their seeds.
Next step is to thrash and winnow and see how much actual grain we got.
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