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Odin

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • Huddersfield
Is this Barley?
« on: April 27, 2014, 09:12:36 pm »
A wild clump of this growing in the field and it stands 4ft tall. Is it Barley?


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Odin

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • Huddersfield
Re: Is this Barley?
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2014, 09:16:49 pm »
Barley??
A man who cannot till the soil cannot till his own soul !
A son of the soil .

Cheviot

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Scottish Borders, north of Moffat
    • Hawkshaw Sheep yarn
Re: Is this Barley?
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2014, 07:01:31 am »
 Hi,
Yes, it is.
Regards
Sue
Cheviot, Shetland and Hebridean sheep.

benkt

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Cambridgeshire
    • Hempsals Community Farm
Re: Is this Barley?
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2014, 09:46:04 am »
Not quite enough for a brew in those photos, but it is at least barley! We get the odd bit clump around our place which I assume blows in from a nearby field during drilling as most of my neighbours are large arable farms doing rotations of barley/wheat/rape.

Sbom

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • Staffordshire
Re: Is this Barley?
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2014, 10:30:16 am »
If it has wispy bits on the top then it is, can't quite see from photo....

Odin

  • Joined Oct 2011
  • Huddersfield
Re: Is this Barley?
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2014, 07:26:24 pm »
Thank you for the replies.
Will have to save the seed and get enough going for a brew  :excited:
A man who cannot till the soil cannot till his own soul !
A son of the soil .

 

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