Grainy footage
The small wheat plot finally matured. I harvested it again, though I still have a bucket of seeds from last year I haven’t done anything with. I don’t have a good method for harvesting, because I don’t have any machinery to do most of the threshing then winnowing.
This time, I use a scythe to cut all the wheat down. It went quick, maybe 15 minutes at most. In theory you can sweep the scythe such that the wheat stalks fall with the seed heads oriented the same way. My attempt is below.
Then I ended up with a huge pile of unmanageable wheat. I should have just used a knife/scissors to go down the rows and snip the seed heads. An alternate plan was needed. I realized I have a weed eater and it has poly cut blades – meant for thicker brush. I bought a clean trashcan and shoved a bunch of wheat in it.
Then turned on the weed eater and used it like an immersion blender. Note, if you do this wear full eye goggles and a facemask of some kind. The dust is ridiculous and chunks of straw and seeds WILL hit you in the face. Eventually the contents of the can is diced up to tiny chunks of stalk and chaff and whatever else.
From there I could use a shop vac blower , a small circular fan, and some hardware cloth to sort the rest down to mostly seed. Resulting in this:
About 2.5 gallons of seed + some chaff. I’ll sort out the rest later. Right now I don’t have a method to grind it to flour.
And the tomatoes are starting to come in. They taste great so far. These big beefsteaks are new to me, and have taken a very long time to appear.
