Nyan's Pitiful Gardening 2023

[Nyan]

Hi All,

Been too busy building on to the house this year to do much gardening, so I left a couple of patches in their winter wheat cover crop until they ripened. At least I'll get 3-4 bales worth of straw and some "free" chicken scratch grain...

But in the soft white wheat patch I found some rather strange wheat heads, and I wondered if anyone has seen these before. I couldn't find any pictures of heads like this while doing Bing/Google image searches, so I am lost. The heads are quite a bit heavier than the regular looking wheat heads and have much thicker stems. Some ranged from 6 to 8 rows of grain per head.

Any idea what causes this? (Sorry for the crappy picture, it really doesn't show how rounded these heads are with the extra rows of kernals)

[applestar]

Maybe the difference is hard wheat/soft wheat varieties? Or those red wheat varieties?

Wheat — Louisiana Ag in the Classroom
https://aitcla.org/wheat

Sorry to hear you’re not able to give attention to gardening this year. I’ve been there. Sometimes, giving yourself a break is necessary, but then sometimes, growing one little thing in a container… a tiny garden…can satisfy that itch, too.