with three hungry birds in the house and always looking for something new and interesting to grow has anyone tried growing millet, i always have some in the house so could germinate the seeds from there, any one tried it any ideas?
no one grown millet no one keeps birds then
never heard of it, debster,i mean the growing :)
It's a large tropical grass, which was a staple in Africa before the introduction of maize which is much heavier-yielding. I don't know, but I suspect you might need to grow in under glass.
Don't know about growing millet but real seeds offer a couple of grain types to grow in the UK: amaranth and quinoa. see http://www.realseeds.co.uk/grains.html :)
Seems like it might be foxtail millet possibly.
http://lubbock.tamu.edu/othercrops/docs/nmsumilletprod.htm
yes certainly sounds like foxtail millet, have heard about quinoa being good for birds too, may give it a go, got nothing to lose lol :)