How to Grow HULLESS Oats on a Small Plot- Year 2 Follow Up

[@SurfDetector]

Very interesting experiment. It's always good to see a start to finish sort of presentation. Thank you for taking the time to produce this.

[@maryjohnking5869]

Please! Make more videos! I really enjoyed then and learned some things along the way. Many Blessings. ♥️

[@devynchaffee]

would love to see another video if you find new insight on the process! thanks so much for this, we're going to try!

[@nancyobrien7994]

Impressive!!!! Our daughter and grand daughter have recently been diagnosed with celiac and, since gluten free oat groats are wildly expensive where I live, I'm going to give this a try! Plus, it's always fun to try something new in the garden! Just as an aside, I successfully grew amaranth last year and it was really easy to harvest if you're looking for another gluten-free staple.

[@karlelshoff4720]

If you are interested in curing celiac you need to restore the circulatory system. Use Strauss Heart, you will notice a change in your stool after about a year. At that point you should find you body will tolerate gluten.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

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.

[@kennypridemore5466]

Love the vibrating sander !!!!!! 😅😂😊 awesome !!!!!🎉

[@David-kd5mf]

Great video. Very well put together. You have done everyone a service documenting this process from start to finish. There is a way to modify the scythe with a catch hook that the stalks are scooped and gathered with so at the end of a cut you can dump a pile of stalks in a pile facing the same direction. But you need a really sharp scythe. May want to look into Maine based scythe supply to maybe buy a new head for your scythe if possible.

[@stefannegler2314]

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.

[@maryjohnking5869]

Thank you for taking your time to show us everything. Many Blessings. ♥️

[@EarthUniversityOfficial]

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

[@TheShalunia]

Great video! Thank you for showing the whole process! ❤

[@SG-vu4qy]

love you videos! check your sythe technique. from what I've seen, you swing in the same motion of the sythe curve. you are kind of hit and dragging.

[@maxzytaruk8558]

Thanks for the follow up!! Amazing what can happen in two years

[@kamrynhende]

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 💗

[@kamrynhende]

I've also seen such scythes that have something called a "cradle" attached, and it's like a little fence on the scythe so it holds all of the stalks together- and when you pull it back, the stalks drop together in a neater pile at the edge of the row. If I ever use a scythe, I think I'd prefer it to have a cradle- otherwise it seems a bit cumbersome and clumsy! I like your hedgetrimmer idea, haha

[@jameseden9380]

Amazing video thank you. Would replanting your harvest result in a better yeald next year? Would love an update next year. All the best

[@DroneFlyer-c7b]

Thank you, sir! You're extremely informative.❤❤❤❤

[@DJ-uk5mm]

Glyphosate might be the cause rather than gluten … ps love your channel. Thanks for this. It’s just what I needed as I plan to plant hulled oats year

[@cipela193]

Please video next year! I love your videos

[@kennypridemore5466]

Awesome video, always love your videos

[@susanvaughn741]

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.

[@saethman]

Third time's the charm? Will watch the video if you change your mind and record this year's harvest :) Sounded like you are planning on planting the remaining seeds and not your harvest - could it be better to plant seeds from your harvest? (i.e that have grown in your climate) I have almost no experience with a scythe, but I have seen youtube-videoes on scything-techniques - maybe you need to perfection your scything-technique to make the oats fall in the same direction? Thanks for making the video :)

[@ginahill503]

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!

[@johannajarte4667]

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.🇸🇪

[@bobbun9630]

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.

[@Al.Fer1234]

😊👍👍

[@kimmurphy5903]

Thank You

[@thomasg4324]

*Thank you so much for clearly explaining every step, and for showing various methods.*

[@antwaunholley4498]

Do the next year!!!!

[@kylebrigmon9475]

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

[@sportswolf1]

What about using a electric hedge trimmer to harvest the oats?

[@joey_the_farmdawg]

Great video!! Thank you for journaling this and show us!! Best of luck in your future garden ambitions 😊

[@TobiasDuncan]

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

[@jamesmiller9299]

I saw your first video and I thought that you should try an electric hedge clipper 😊that is basically a mini sickle bar. Thanks for a great description of the whole process

[@thestillroombotanicals2932]

Thank you so much for your thorough videos on growing oats!

[@ricardogallardo8284]

I would actually like to see ankther video on this

[@4given-c5h]

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us. Best of luck with next year’s crop!

[@Easybakingshorts]

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.

[@henryprentice123]

Great Video

[@amyblueskyirl16]

Thanks for sharing! Where did you get the hulless oats? Last video you said you had trouble sourcing it

[@ln1273]

I got super excited when you said you were in Cache Valley. I live on the north side of the border, so I’m always looking for gardeners in my zone/area to learn tips and tricks from! Can I ask where you found your hulless oats? Thank you for sharing your experiments with us. I use that same phrase when I plant my garden. Every year it’s an experiment! 😅

[@valleyviewacres9666]

I bought hulless oats from a company called Albert Lea Seed. Phone number 1-800-352-5247.

[@SolarSolaceFarms]

Hello sir, very ambitious, a thought on the birds, raking it in after broadcast may help with that.

[@aibell4800]

I wonder if a string trimmer would work? 🤔

[@sukhpalkaur7055]

Try using harvest sickles from the Indian PUNJAB. It's called a date. Very efficient when squatting position

[@kevinhogan2022]

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

[@ginahill503]

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.

[@PeterSedesse]

I feel bad for commenting late on the last video and then seeing a new video is up.

[@AbdyVence]

I wanted to give you an additional link that explained "tillering of oats". ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4eTm3doaryVgKs ) Start at 5:00 min. interval.

[@robclinton9249]

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

[@66cobradave]

Try using a gas or electric hedge trimmer

[@howardjohnston7376]

He did try that one last year's oats.

[@HeidiCancelleri]

How do you connect your hose to the PVC pipe?

[@SurfDetector]

If you go to Home Depot, the part is called 3/4 in. Slip x MHT PVC Hose Fitting

[@willseely4515]

Put a wooden Owl on a post near your crop.

[@Xarcell]

Consider sorghum instead of oats.

[@kennypridemore5466]

Again use a weed wacker WITH A SAW BLADE and use a 10 inch blade with about 40 to 60 teeth and cut stalks close to the ground ... look for Chinese videos that use this method 😊

[@valleyviewacres9666]

The sawblade is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@Charity1277]

Sorghum tastes like soap. I orderwd a bunch and had to throw it all out

[@deangerber1797]

Ya like to much physical labor, hire Amish to do it😅

[@Epockite]

"we was"?

[@PeterSedesse]

I was raised in the country, and had to unlearn a whole bunch of mis-conjugation that everyone used when I was growing up. Most of my elementary and high school teachers were ' locals ' so used the incorrect conjugations also. When I went to college, it was a nightmare, it is so hard to unlearn crap that you spent 15 years speaking. If you paid attention, he had a couple other ones.